The Challenges of Mass-Digitisation

1. The Challenges of Mass-Digitisation Brenton Lovett Wizard Information Services

2. Agenda • Managing Media Assets • Realising Media Asset Value • Mass-Digitisation • The Challenges • The Solution • Demo • Questions

3. What is an Asset? Definition of an Asset: • You know you own it • You know how/where to find it • It has value: • Historical value • It generates $$$ directly/indirectly Form of a Media Asset: • Video • Audio • Still pictures • Text data

4. Storage The Big Picture Image scanner/printing Cataloguing & Ingestion Meta-data logging Fulfillment Ingestion Browsing/ Webcasting Web Server Content Creation Media Asset Management Content Distribution/ AnyCast Editing Authoring Transmission Database External Network

5. Managing Media Assets • What content do you have? • Where is it? • What format is it in? • What condition is it in? • Who holds rights on it?

6. Consistent Management of All Asset Formats is the Key… • An organization’s assets are highly valuable – whether they are physical analogue material, digitised electronic materials, or future technologies/formats that go beyond the digital realm. • Most collections will contain both analogue and digital material for many years to come. • Need to maintain consistent intellectual information about each asset, regardless of its physical manifestation.

7. Realising Media Asset Value Re-using, re-purposing and re-selling your content effectively and efficiently implies: • All assets catalogued in a single system (or one that provides a single-system view) • Analogue assets physically managed and conversion to digital formats automated • Digital assets available for on-line viewing and editing

8. Mass-Digitisation Challenges • Multiple analogue formats • Reuse of existing metadata • Metadata stored in database vs. metadata stored directly in digital file • Loss of analogue material during digitisation process • Automation of the whole process whether ad hoc or batch

9. Mass-Digitisation Solution • All assets catalogued in a single system (or at least a single-system view available) • Analogue assets physically managed • Conversion to digital formats automated • Existing metadata reused • Ad hoc and batch capability

11. Demo

12. Sun MAV-70XGI Demo Setup MAVIS Monitor/ Review A/V file MAVIS + Mediaware

13. Sony MAV70 Encoder

14. Sony VTR and Monitor

16. Questions

17. The Challenges of Mass-Digitisation A unified approach to analogue and digital media makes mass-digitisation much less of a challenge!