Digitising an Archive: The Factory Approach Export

@article{citeulike:2732796, abstract = {The FP6 PrestoSpace Project aims to develop systems that will permit quick, efficient and economically accessible preservation of analogue media. Stream UK has built on the knowledge gained from three years of working on this project along with expertise from over seven years encoding within the industry to develop a complete encoding factory solution, based on the PrestoSpace project where the focus is on developing a semi-automated 'preservation factory' approach to preservation of audio-visual collections aimed at driving down the cost of digitising the archive below the 1€ per minute level. The solution is housed in a stand-alone rack unit and includes barcode tracking of tapes through the system to allow archive owners to take an existing collection of off-line material and convert it into a high-quality archive and a Web-ready preview format including all existing metadata and maintaining an overview of the process via the barcode tracking system which produces a searchable interface that can be accessed via a LAN or Internet connection.}, author = {Burbidge, Dunkin}, citeulike-article-id = {2732796}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue47/burbridge/}, journal = {Ariadne}, keywords = {archives, digitization}, month = {April}, number = {47}, posted-at = {2008-04-29 10:02:09}, priority = {2}, title = {Digitising an Archive: The Factory Approach}, url = {http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue47/burbridge/}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2732796 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2732796 N2 - The FP6 PrestoSpace Project aims to develop systems that will permit quick, efficient and economically accessible preservation of analogue media. Stream UK has built on the knowledge gained from three years of working on this project along with expertise from over seven years encoding within the industry to develop a complete encoding factory solution, based on the PrestoSpace project where the focus is on developing a semi-automated 'preservation factory' approach to preservation of audio-visual collections aimed at driving down the cost of digitising the archive below the 1€ per minute level. The solution is housed in a stand-alone rack unit and includes barcode tracking of tapes through the system to allow archive owners to take an existing collection of off-line material and convert it into a high-quality archive and a Web-ready preview format including all existing metadata and maintaining an overview of the process via the barcode tracking system which produces a searchable interface that can be accessed via a LAN or Internet connection. IS - 47 JF - Ariadne TI - Digitising an Archive: The Factory Approach KW - archives KW - digitization AU - Burbidge, Dunkin PY - 2006/04// UR - http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue47/burbridge/ ER -