NOA's distinctive Archive Asset Management system evolves with each customer, providing solutions to real-world archiving challenges, reflecting domain-specific trends, targeting decades-long preservation.
Merely storing millions of audiovisual records holds little value if future generations cannot readily identify, locate, preview, comprehend, and utilize them. Departing from traditional hierarchical folder-based file repositories common in production environments, NOA embraces a sophisticated relational model.
Here, file-based media "content" is augmented with technical and descriptive metadata, alongside other relevant resources and context-building elements. This transformation converts them into genuine, comprehensive cultural assets poised to withstand the test of time.
Preserving media for the long term demands careful consideration of the formats used. Opting for non-proprietary, lossless codecs such as FFV1 and BWF is crucial for ensuring the longevity and accessibility of archived content. These formats provide a stable foundation that can withstand technological advancements and changes in software compatibility over time.
Additionally, normalizing content to a lossless mezzanine format not only simplifies workflows but also safeguards against potential degradation or loss of quality during processing and storage.
Reducing the variety of formats streamlines management processes and enhances overall efficiency. By integrating widely-used file types, organizations can ensure reliable future compatibility, facilitating seamless access and usability of archived content over time.
Ingest and outgest, orders, publishing, metadata creation and enrichment, advanced access control, and data safety, along with many other areas of modern archiving, directly depend on reliable, performing automation and well-designed business procedures.
In mediARC, all interactions with and within the archive are handled through sophisticated but easily managed workflows, ensuring that the archive system remains conformant to the OAIS reference model and consistent within itself.
Private collections aside, most archives worldwide are intended for sharing with others or for generating new and unique content. User behavior is constantly shifting, and modern archives are being accessed, explored, and used directly by end users more than ever before.
mediARC doesn't operate in isolation, it encourages organizations to seamlessly integrate it into their production, research, publishing, or monetization ecosystems, thereby becoming an integral component of their daily operations and a solid pillar of their future.
Frequent and unavoidable data migration due to the limitations of hardware shelf life is not the only challenge facing modern archiving. While risks of data loss or corruption can be mitigated, challenges arise from media collections becoming heterogeneous and chaotic over time, due to early decisions, changing industry standards, or imported content.
NOA offers pragmatic, future-proof content preservation strategies based on common OAIS-based best practices in a convenient and affordable package.
Managing growing archive collections can be challenging, especially when it comes to storage, processing performance, and search efficiency. Fortunately, in the 21st century, modern Archive Asset Management systems eliminate the question of what can or cannot be archived due to capacity limitations.
NOA has designed mediARC to address these challenges by scaling both horizontally and vertically across sites, cities, or countries. It can accommodate thousands of users and manage millions of assets.
Archiving content on tapes stored indefinitely on wooden shelves in basements is no longer viable. Modern archiving is inherently intertwined with IT infrastructure. Over decades, organizations must anticipate multiple software and hardware upgrades due to the natural lifecycle of hardware. System architects must choose wisely to avoid dependency on specific technologies or vendors, ensuring flexibility and cost-effectiveness in the long run.
NOA takes pride in offering hardware-agnostic archiving solutions, empowering organizations to select local hardware vendors independently and maintain control over their archiving infrastructure.
In archiving, nothing gets left behind. As technology evolves, so does NOA, ensuring a smooth transition from old to new methods of storing and presenting information.
We take pride in our specialized ingestLINE digitization tools tailored for archive preservation endeavors. Integrated seamlessly with mediARC Archive Asset Management, these tools enable direct ingest of content from analog or digital legacy carriers.
Additionally, mediARC efficiently handles legacy media files or new digitally-born content from temporary file repositories, streamlining the import and processing procedures. Whether carried out at regular intervals or during large-scale migration projects, mediARC ensures that no valuable data is left behind.
Transitioning from traditional archiving methods to modern IT-based asset management solutions can be intimidating. However, with mediARC, NOA brings a robust framework architecture built from standard, single-purpose components.
These specialized tools in this unique heavy-duty ecosystem are easily learned, used, monitored, maintained, renewed, upgraded, and troubleshooted.
Contrary to popular belief, archives today must be highly adaptable to
the ever-changing competitive landscape.
While serving as a pillar of
stability and data safety, mediARC offers a unique level of
customization possibilities. This ranges from workflows and scripts to
context-based custom action buttons, allowing us to consistently meet
the wishes and needs of the archive's consumers.
