The document discusses challenges facing broadcast archives in preserving vast amounts of audiovisual media across different formats. It notes the diversity of thousands of broadcast organizations across countries with varying laws and digitization progress. Archives are shifting from tape to digital workflows and dealing with legacy formats while production moves increasingly online. The Presto4u project aims to help address these challenges through knowledge sharing, best practices, and community building among broadcast archives.

1. FIAT/IFTA Conference, October 22, 2014
The Presto4U project is supported by the European Commission
under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) — Grant Agreement 600845
TV, Radio and
New Media Broadcasting
Community of Practice
Erwin Verbruggen
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

2. Communty of Practice Expert group
Presto4u - Technology for Digital Audiovisual Media Preservation: www.presto4u.eu / www.prestocentre.org

3. Knowledge finding & Community
Building
▪ Surveys to establish knowledge base
▪ Regular blog & newsletters
▪ Webinars, Workshops & Edit-a-thon
Presto4u - Technology for Digital Audiovisual Media Preservation: www.presto4u.eu / www.prestocentre.org

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Image:
gearhousebroadcast.com
TV, Radio and New Media Broadcasting Archives
Broadcast archives have massive amounts of
materials. Some say: of low quality. Others say:
it’s the main source for 20th Century history.

5. Wide range of media formats
!
▪ Spectrum of formats starts expanding from 1920s onwards
▪ Latest technologies include ever-changing code bases
▪ At the vanguard of / overlapping with other media
industries
Presto4u - Technology for Digital Audiovisual Media Preservation: www.presto4u.eu / www.prestocentre.org
Images:
Kulturarv
on
Flickr

6. Domain is highly diverse
▪ Many thousands of broadcast organisations (6379 broadcast
companies in 40 European countries alone!)
▪ Deposit laws are different in each and every country
• National AV Institutions take up tasks of public broadcasters’
archives in some countries
• Commercial broadcasters are left alone
▪ Digitisation progress of legacy formats varies widely
▪ Key moment going on: move from tape to data recording
▪ Meanwhile access formats are on the move
Presto4u - Technology for Digital Audiovisual Media Preservation: www.presto4u.eu / www.prestocentre.org

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Image:
Erwin
Verbruggen
CC
BY-­‐SA
2012.
Tape Archives
This
image
is
two
years
old.
It
is
how
many
broadcasters
still
work.

8. Impact on production workflows
!
▪ The
archive
has
never
had
such
an
impact
on
production
before
▪ Archives
are
rebuilding
workflows
for
metadata
gathering,
from
the
first
steps
of
the
production
chain
▪ Producers
need
to
be
‘taught’
how
to
work
with
an
all-­‐
digital
archive
workflow
Presto4u - Technology for Digital Audiovisual Media Preservation: www.presto4u.eu / www.prestocentre.org

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Image:
Erwin
Verbruggen
CC
BY-­‐SA
2013.
But is it all digital?
And how many of these still function?
Legacy machinery is drying up – fast.

10. And then, it’s digital
▪ How do you keep track of the preservation process?
▪ Reading bits & pieces
▪ Maintaining quality throughout years of cataloguing
!
Born-digital: New paradigms?
▪ On the fringes of the creation world: the web as storytelling platform
▪ Web has been text-based, becoming increasingly audiovisual
▪ Technological push supported by radio organisations, arte.
▪ What chances, what futures for broadcast organisations?
Presto4u - Technology for Digital Audiovisual Media Preservation: www.presto4u.eu / www.prestocentre.org

11. Enlightenment
Wisdom
Certainty
Presto4u - Technology for Digital Audiovisual Media Preservation: www.presto4u.eu / www.prestocentre.org
Awakening
Uncertainty
Long-Term Sustainability
Digitisation Storage Access
Digital Maturity

12. Enlightenment
Wisdom
Certainty
Presto4u - Technology for Digital Audiovisual Media Preservation: www.presto4u.eu / www.prestocentre.org
Awakening
Uncertainty
Digital Maturity
Long-Term Sustainability
Possibility of digitising
Budgeting for digital
Knowing what’s in
your archive

13. Enlightenment
Wisdom
Certainty
Presto4u - Technology for Digital Audiovisual Media Preservation: www.presto4u.eu / www.prestocentre.org
Awakening
Uncertainty
Digital Maturity
Long-Term Sustainability
Connecting production
& archive

14. Enlightenment
Wisdom
Certainty
Presto4u - Technology for Digital Audiovisual Media Preservation: www.presto4u.eu / www.prestocentre.org
Awakening
Uncertainty
Digital Maturity
Long-Term Sustainability
Standards & qualities
to choose

15. Enlightenment
Wisdom
Certainty
Presto4u - Technology for Digital Audiovisual Media Preservation: www.presto4u.eu / www.prestocentre.org
Awakening
Uncertainty
Digital Maturity
Long-Term Sustainability
Control over
QC process

16. Preservation plans
Enlightenment
Wisdom
Certainty
Presto4u - Technology for Digital Audiovisual Media Preservation: www.presto4u.eu / www.prestocentre.org
Awakening
Uncertainty
Digital Maturity
Long-Term Sustainability
Data seal of Approval
in place

17. CoP Specificity?
!
▪ Most problems we face are present everywhere
▪ Specific differences around formats, content
sharing
▪ Pure IT-wise, problems are popping up all around us
▪ Together we can find the answers?
Presto4u - Technology for Digital Audiovisual Media Preservation: www.presto4u.eu / www.prestocentre.org

18. Thank you
everbruggen@beeldengeluid.nl
@erwinverb
Image:
BBC
Archive
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