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Efficiency without Robotics in large Scale Digitisation projects

Title (author1): 
Mr
First names (author1): 
Jean-Christophe
Surname (author 1): 
Kummer
Institution: 
NOA
Country: 
AUSTRIA
Presentation type: 
spoken paper
Date: 
28 Sept Wednesday
Start time: 
1530
Venue: 
LoC Madison Building: Montpelier Rm.
Abstract: 

Typically, archive stakeholders have a one-time possibility to finance the digitization of an archive and might spend millions in budgets on people and systems or for service providers to get their archives transitioned from a carrier based archive to an information based repository. As nobody wants to make errors in the process and would like to be sufficiently efficient to be able to finance the work, parallelization of digitization has become a way to go. However parallelization may introduce errors that may pass by unnoticed if not taken care of. The use of robotics may help only at first glance. However a new approach is to model all business processes of subsequent tasks into a so called "wall of VTR".

In this presentation, an overview will therefore be given on state-of-the-art methods used in the transfer of video collections to digital repositories, specifically outlaying innovative methods to secure transcription integrity by monitoring channel code parameters and RF signals of the involved re-players.

The collected parameters are provided as process-generated metadata, and may be collected using standardised interfaces. Thus they may be used to help with process optimisation not only during an individual transfer, but used for planning of maintenance, balancing pro-active and re-active policies of wearing parts, or used to choose for the best use of tape cleaning procedures.