Audio and video digitization on a single-station workplace following the highest industry standards for workflow management, transfer quality, and encoding.
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No NOA customer EVER had to re-digitize content!
PicoService , which is the designation of the underlying software, seamlessly transforms your computer into a powerful standalone digitization and workflow system . Within the intuitive framework of PicoService, you can effortlessly generate a comprehensive list of ongoing digitization jobs, efficiently handle digitization tasks as needed, and oversee automated post-processing and delivery. PicoService empowers you to streamline your digital processes with ease.
NOARecord PICO : Audio Digitization
FrameLector PICO : Video Digitization
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1 Workstation Archiving System
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1 System for Multiple Locations
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1 Day of Setup and Training
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| The available team size for your archiving project is "1"? Not to worry! With NOA's Pico-based archiving solution, one operator can achieve significant throughput on a single workstation. Pico seamlessly combines and streamlines the key components of the preservation process, offering a compact work environment capable of handling all tasks associated with quality-controlled transfer of audio/video carriers. | NOA Pico's archiving system offers more than just digitization. It handles a range of tasks from managing digital conversions and central databases to administering user interactions, designing workflows, and maintaining task and process logs. It also supports transcoding into different archival formats and distribution to various users. This all-in-one system operates on a single workstation, removing the need for servers, complex networks, or elaborate IT infrastructure. |
Is your archive distributed across multiple locations, possibly spanning the entire country? Instead of shipping entire archive collections, a Pico-based digitization system can be neatly packed into something as compact as a standard suitcase, ready to be sent to any external branch of the archive.
Already fully configured, the system will only have to be set up to be operational - training of operators on site is reduced to simple instructions concerning prepared workflows. |
The NOA Pico system's low complexity enables rapid operational setup. Physical setup of the workstation and connection of players, installation of the software package on a client-provided workstation, configuring workflow templates with the help of easily accessible tutorials, and a brief system introduction are all possible within a day. This significantly minimizes the ramp-up time for small facilities.
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Whether opting for pre-configured templates or customizing them to align with your specific needs - once configured, every carrier or job specific workflow template is applied to each physical carrier to run through the process.
Specific load conditions prevent human error in handling, semi and fully automatic process steps reduces required human interaction when producing the final files.
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To cater to diverse carrier types, the workflow offers adjustable parameters such as analog gain, player speed, field order, and more. Once configured, the recording software (NOARecord for audio or FrameLector for video transfers) seamlessly adapts settings to ensure the optimal digitization of each carrier in alignment with the specific template.
The selection of a player type within the workflow
template eliminates the possibility of inadvertently loading a task onto
a channel with a different player type.
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| After a carrier/job has been loaded, the first step in the workflow is converting the physical carrier into a file, which itself is encoded in an internal, lossless working format. The dedicated recording software provides the means for transfer quality control, as well as segmentation and annotation of content, along with other carrier-specific operations. | After transfer, QC, and other optional steps, the final archival format is generated from the recorded working format in this second stage of the Pico workflow. Default settings include BWF for audio and FFV1 for video content, with additional codecs accessible through third-party integration. | The concluding stage of the process enables manipulation of created file(s). This may include automated file naming based on descriptive metadata, transformation of gathered technical metadata through stylesheet transformation, integration of post-processing steps (possibly executed by third party software), via a command-line interface, etc.
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PICO offers three methods of generating jobs in the database.
NOA, Release Manager
"NOARecord and FrameLector Pico provide the easiest access and top-quality approach to the professional digitization of audio-visual materials for all types of archives."
jobDB Archive Workflow Management
jobDB is database-controlled workflow engine that serves as a robust backbone for all archive projects that require central management, advanced media processing and sophisticated task division.
mediARC Archive Asset Management
mediARC is an OAIS compatible enterprise-level framework for Archive Asset Management, which allows for tightly integrated handling of both media content and its associated metadata, whilst putting interaction with the system under the control of a dedicated workflow engine.
Pico workstations, like all NOA solutions, is designed to run on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and to operate seamlessly on standard Windows operating systems. This approach guarantees that the hardware underlying NOA's solutions is not only easily maintainable and accessible but also highly reliable, offering users peace of mind with its long-term stability and dependability.
For optimal operation, NOA provides:
