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Mass digitisation systems and open source software: A viable combination?
Journal of Digital Media Management,
8
(1),
37-46
(2019)
Abstract
This paper describes how the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA, curator of the French public radio and television archives) and Ektacom (developer of video solutions) built a sustainable and efficient video digitising system for transferring the remaining of INA’s collection, using an open-source encoding solution. It details the challenges encountered and how they were overcome. It features a comparison of the different digitising systems that have been used at the INA. Finally, this paper assesses the benefits and the drawbacks of the choices that were made, in terms of cost, efficiency, reliability, sustainability and flexibility.
Keywords: mass digitisation; open source; video collection
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Author's Biography
Etienne Marchand is an operations executive at the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel’s preservation, delivery and digital archiving service, where he is responsible for digitising television and radio archives, quality control and content delivery. He graduated from EICAR in 2008 after training to be a sound engineer. Since then, Etienne has worked on various aspects of the technical workflows associated with the preservation of audio, video and film.
Marc Leny is Head of Research and Development at Ektacom. His research interests include video compression, automated image and video analysis and the description and storage of multimedia streams. He has a master of engineering degree in electronic systems from Dublin City University and a Ph.D. in Digital Imaging from Institut Mines-Telecom.
