NOA's enterprise-grade Archive Asset Management system boasts a highly flexible and scalable architecture, accommodating diverse archive scenarios and environments.
Based on NOA’s proven, easy-to-use, open technologies, the mediARC system is a flexible framework for Archive Asset Management that makes the whole process easier and more efficient for broadcasters and archives of all sizes.
mediARC is a client-server computer system consisting of various modules and applications connected via a computer network. Thanks to its modular structure organizations can scale the application perfectly to fit your own performance, security, and distributed usage requirements.
mediARC answers the need for structured and flexible content management that has to last for decades, and comes with a range of powerful tools that can digest petabytes of information.
The mediARC GUI client application is the main interface for archive users and administrators to access the mediARC system.
Designed with the skilled archivist in mind, mediARC GUI is the starting point for creating and describing archive objects, modeling and managing workflows, and researching assets within the mediARC database.
The mediARC WEB client application allows users to access the mediARC system via a web browser interface.
mediARC WEB is the intranet web version of the mediARC GUI. It gives a modified set of functionality including search, item details, media prelisten/preview, and user orders.
NOA, Product Manager
"mediARC represents NOA's solution for media archive owners who understand the significance of crafting archives that endure and remain usable for decades in a professional manner.
Moving beyond production-based or custom-built tools, NOA has collaborated closely with archivists, broadcasters, service providers, and IT specialists to develop a unique Archive Asset Management framework which facilitates a seamless transition into 21st-century archiving, and provides a long-term vision."
For the sake of security and optimum performance, direct connections to the mediARC database are limited to special mediARC middleware servers.
The DBDistributor is used by the mediARC GUI client application as an interface to the mediARC database. It allows to configure database connections with optional fail-over connections.
The ProcessorHost is used as a high-level interface between processors (the software modules that handle specific tasks within a workflow) and the mediARC database (client-server scenario).
The WebPreviewServer acts as a streaming server for prelisten/preview requests from the mediARC WEB client application and its player. WebPreviewServer uses the "Prelisten Cache" of the mediARC system for reading media files, which it serves to the player on the client machine using the HTTP protocol for maximum compatibility.
The General Public Path (often referred to as GPP) is the storage path for inter-task file communication during the execution of a workflow. It resides on centrally reachable distributed physical storage, to which only processors have read and write access. The GPP acts mostly as intermediate and temporal cache-path to serve transcoding engines or 3rd party processes such as CLIP.
The FileManager moves files upon request between different Access Domains, selecting the appropriate access method, based on dedicated and predefined policies (see OAIS). Access Domains are addressed by FileManager either directly or over RemoteFileAgent or StorageConnector.
The RemoteFileAgent is used on the "target side" of file operations by FileManager to securely transfer files from the System Domain to the user in his User Domain and to control the file access rights of the requesting user.
The LicenseServer is part of the actLINE product family and allows to review and manage the amount of granted software licenses, as well as to specify low-level user rights within the system.
The ServiceConsole is part of the actLINE product family and it can be used to pause, resume, monitor and configure nearly all NOA service applications in a system setup.
The mediARC Archive Asset Management system is designed to be modular to the extent that it does not enforce the use of a specific archive storage solution. This allows customers to either use already existing storage infrastructure or choose a new storage solution from their preferred vendors, as long as it complies with mediARC's system requirements.
The StorageConnector is part of the actLINE product family and serves as a scalable access agent to archive storage, facilitating most store and restore requests, isolating direct access from normal users.
actLINE product family
actLINE is an array of purpose-built, powerful tools, user applications and server-side processors which enhance mediARC workflows flexibly and cost-effectively.
Thanks to the modular character of the NOA ecosystem, mediARC's feature set can be easily expanded and scaled, allowing customers to get only, and exactly what they need.
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Whether integral to the organization's core business or serving as a pillar for broadcasting and production, a digital media archive must guarantee business continuity in all circumstances. With mediARC Archive Asset Management system you count on:
