Scaling

NOA's goal is to provide valuable tools tailored to a variety of organizations, spanning from compact archives or small service providers to extensive national digitization initiatives.

The jobDB archive workflow management system excels at meeting the diverse needs of entities, regardless of their size. It provides a solution that is accessible and robust, supporting a wide range of applications in the fields of media and workflow management.

With the flexibility to start on a modest scale, jobDB's comprehensive framework is intricately designed to be highly scalable and adaptable, ensuring its effectiveness in various contexts.

• Small-scale archive inventory projects.
  
• Proof-of-concept digitization projects.
  
• Highly specialized, low-throughput digitization initiatives.
  
• Professional but sporadic batch digitization services.
  
• Mid-scale, one-site in-house digitization.
  
• High-throughput industrial digitization facilities.
  
• Large-scale advanced multi-site logistics.
  

• Seamlessly add ingest channels.
  
• Seamlessly add ingest workstations.
  
• Seamlessly add supporting workstations.
  
• Seamlessly grow logistics support.
  
• Seamlessly add actLINE processors.
  
• Seamlessly grow GPP storage.
  
• Seamlessly upgrade jobDB grades.
  

Many NOA projects have humble beginnings, often starting with one NOARecord workstation connected to an entry-level jobDB archive workflow management system. Why? Factors such as limited budgets, skepticism toward new and untested technology, and the necessity to demonstrate tangible results.

Through NOA's industrial approach to digitization, organizations can now initiate preservation projects promptly, even with a relatively modest entry budget. This allows them to advocate for additional funding with concrete evidence in the form of real digitized content that is publishable, monetizable, or usable in production.

Headquarters Only:

Typically, digitization projects are initiated and established in close proximity to the central archive repository, characterized by its well-organized structure, housing the most relevant or valuable content, and ensuring rapid results. By importing an existing inventory database via XML, preservation planning can be promptly organized based on established priorities.

Remote Logistics:

While regional repositories or off-site vaults may be less prepared, they are often swiftly incorporated into digitization projects. The most straightforward and cost-effective approach involves remote retrieval logistics. Typically, a small local setup is required to facilitate inventory creation, shipment planning, and preparation. This model also applies to outsourced digitization through service providers.

Regional Digitization:

Complex organizational structures, a large number of archive repositories, or even ambitious project targets sometimes render shipping archives less efficient than establishing a decentralized digitization system. In such cases, regional resources must support on-site digitization, requiring a specially designed installation to be set up. NOA has gained valuable experience with this model through several successful projects all around the world.