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Validating media quality in a largescale outsourced media migration project: The second layer
Journal of Digital Media Management,
10
(1),
62-68
(2021)
Abstract
This paper describes the quality control (QC) processes for a large-scale digital migration project conducted by österreichischer Rundfunk, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. It provides an overview of the initial requirements and the motivation for introducing an additional, independent QC layer, and describes the implementation process as well as the actual service itself. It draws on first-hand experience to provide a detailed introduction to the technology used for the task. The examples presented and the conclusions drawn provide the reader with the information they need for their own preservation and migration projects.
Keywords: quality control (QC); video cassette migration; auto QC; MXF file inspection; trusted playback
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Author's Biography
Christoph Bauer is the system administrator for archive systems and a senior expert in research and development at Österreichischer Rundfunk, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. He is also Secretary General of the Media-Archives-Austria Association, member of the Association of German Broadcasting Corporations (ARD) Expert Group for Medas Mining, member of the FIAT/IFTA Digitization & Migration Commission and Non-Key Expert for the EU ‘Empowering Society’ project.
Jörg Houpert is Head of Technology at Cube-Tec International, where he manages large-scale audiovisual digitisation and media quality-control projects around the globe. He is a long-standing member of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Technical Committee and an active member of the FIAT/IFTA Committee on Conservation and Migration, as well as various SMPTE standardisation groups. Jörg is also a technical expert in the European Committee for Standardization’s Technical Committee 457 project team, where he is helping to develop a new standard for digital preservation of cinematographic works.
