Radio Belgrade Safeguards Patrimony With NOA posted: 22/03/2021
Streamlines complete digitization process for over 50 years of archival material
Radio Belgrade, part of public broadcaster Radio Television Serbia (RTS), launched its first broadcast in 1929. In an effort to protect its rich history and facilitate access to valuable content, the media house recently decided to take on a major database migration project. To do so, it called on the help of archiving specialists NOA. NOA - in collaboration with its Serbia-based partner and systems integrator Kompani DigiTV - thus embarked on a scheme to modernize Radio Belgrade's entire archiving process, phasing out its various legacy databases and replacing them with a single NOA mediARC Archive Asset Management system.
In theory, this task may seem simple, but in practice it presented quite a challenge. To achieve the required results, it was necessary to normalize all source databases before importing the information into the central mediARC archive database. The new mediARC system works in collaboration with Radio Belgrade's already existing NOA Record workstations and supersedes the jobDB workflow system.
Radio Belgrade Safeguards Patrimony With NOA
What's more, for some 50 years, Radio Belgrade had transferred catalog information towards Winisis and an MS Access databases, and because of changing working patterns over such a long period of time, consistency differed greatly, necessitating considerable consolidation. Fortunately though, thanks to mediARC's semantic and relational approach, consolidation and normalization were not only possible but resulted in a consistent data design improving the archiving work of Radio Belgrade including separate item entities for persons, carriers, and content segments like Albums and Titles.
In addition, because much of the archival material was tagged insufficiently or in a discrepant manner, a majority of the tagging process had to take place during the migration phase. A delicate job, when dealing with ten different databases, also considering the fact that this legacy data from the last 50 years constitutes the broadcaster's complete, irreplaceable patrimony. That all translates into a huge digitization project, comprising the work of 10 cataloguers over so many years - and potentially representing some 500 years of work!
NOA CEO Christophe Kummer explains that, given the context, and despite the fact that it was inevitable for errors to arise due to inconsistency in how data is described, the goal was to consolidate 80-90% of the data toward a meaningful corpus of mediARC.
It's so important to be able to help institutions safeguard their cultural patrimony and to do so in an efficient manner, he said. Having to standardize material from ten different databases over so many years certainly presented a challenge. But thanks to our expertise and experience, we managed to successfully migrate Radio Belgrade's valuable repertoire in a coherent manner which will facilitate access to and preserve this content in the future.
With recent installations in Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and United Arab Emirates, NOA mediARC has gained a strong base of users in both broadcasting and institutional archiving. Providing customers with structured and flexible high-performance content management that will last for decades, mediARC allows access to a deep level of the database and makes it easy to create extremely specific business procedures using intricate and sophisticated workflows.
About RTS
Radio Television Serbia, RTS (Serbian: - ), is a state-owned and operated radio station in Belgrade. It has four different programs (Radio Belgrade 1, Radio Belgrade 2, Radio Belgrade 3, and Radio Belgrade 202), a precious archive of several hundreds of thousands records, magnetic tapes and CDs, and is part of Radio Television of Serbia (RTS). RTS, the public broadcaster in Serbia broadcasts and produces news, drama, and sports programming through radio, television and the Internet. RTS is a member of the European Broadcasting Union. Radio Television of Serbia has four organizational units - radio, television, music production, and record label (PGP-RTS). It is financed primarily through monthly subscription fees and advertising revenue. RTS has two TV centers: in addition to the main TV production center within RTS headquarters complex in the downtown Belgrade, there is also TV production center in Ko utnjak (housing two largest studios: Studio 8 and Studio 9). RTS offers live programming on its website and operates four radio stations, under the name Radio Belgrade.
About NOA GmbH
NOA delivers scalable, high quality AV digitizing and archiving innovations to make audio and video archives easily available in enterprise storage facilities. Sustainable long-term preservation of media content is guaranteed as NOA's unique products rely on open archival standards and formats, and continuous checks for transfer integrity to ensure highest possible quality of audio and video content. NOA's turnkey solutions deliver systems to meet the specific needs of any business.
ingestLINE , actLINE , jobDB , mediARC and the entry level Pico systems safeguard future media accessibility and enterprise-wide collaboration. Advanced semantic metadata management ensures NOA's family of products deliver efficient and reliable identification and retrieval of archival content.
NOA's intuitive proprietary technologies are currently installed in more than thirty international institutions including Austrian National Broadcaster ORF, Sveriges Radio F rvaltnings (SRF), Yleisradio Finland (YLE), Radiotelevizija Slovenija (RTV), the national sound archives of Switzerland and Mexico, the Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep (VRT) and many more.
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