Since end of 1999, Austrian Mediathek worked together with NOA to develop meaningful workflow solutions for turning the Austrian audiovisual archive to digital. This included questions such as content access, storage strategy, total overall process cost, as well as a quality approach in digitisation.
As the national sound and video archive of Austria, Mediathek faces the situation of inheriting every year ten to hundreds of boxes from private collectors. Every year, those are inventoried and prioritized based on their importance.
With the growing amount of content - and the resources that can be allocated - the preservation ratio remains at 20-30% of the total collection.
One of the reasons why Austrian Mediathek preserves the knowledge and maintains a significant amount of preservation technology is:
Starting first with N6000 hardware AD, which were later upgraded to N7000c systems, CD ingest systems and RadioRecordings were added. The connection to the existing MARC-based library system, the integration of different mass storage systems, and the meaningful quality pre-assessments of different carrier types took place, so that finally a huge amount of Austrian archives were successfully preserved.
NOA, CEO
"It is not difficult to make a quick sale. It is a challenge to maintain a partnership for almost 25 years and to keep an excellent reputation.
Coming to Mediathek is still such that everyone welcomes us, whenever NOA passes by."
Besides the outstanding quality control features of azimuth control, bandwidth supervision, C2 and BLER analysis for DAT, the NOA system runs on standard off-the-shelf PCs, which are under the control of the IT department. Over the years, the systems have been upgraded several times, to fulfill the minimum supported OS requirements.
One of the brilliant features that eliminates the need to validate the signal path all the time is the BitProof feature, which represents a constant monitoring of all signal paths - even with weekly running updates on the operating systems.
The NOA systems are provided as CAPEX solutions and NOA offers a service contract for the longevity of the installations.
The system has just been upgraded to jobDB version 5.0, and there are more ingest systems that need to be bought - given the growing demands of the Austrian musical heritage, aiming for a common journey of another 20-30 years ahead of us.
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