Engineering of digital audiovisual archiving systems

Duration
10 days

Partner
ina

Make technical choices depending on the nature of the audiovisual archives and the economic, legal, technical and usage constraints.

who it's for:

Engineers and technical experts in charge of defining and implementing computer systems for the digitisation, management, exploitation and distribution of audiovisual archives. All delegates must have knowledge of computer networks, servers, databases, image and audio formats.

Admission on presentation of a CV and motivation letter.

Generic model for the design and analysis of an archive system (platform, media and metadata, functions and workflow).
Technical platform: archive and distribution servers, bulk digital storage subsystems, architectures and networks.
The choice and management of digital media formats (source and/or compressed formats, file and exchange container formats).
Metadata (types, models) and their management in an archiving sequence.
Key functions (analysed in terms of: procedures and jobs, metadata and media, tools): acquisition (encoding) - data management (DBMS and HSM) - indexing/searches - protection of audiovisual documents & DRM - distribution.
Procedures and tools for the administration and management of DMAM and workflows: implementation of existing tools or development of tools adapted to the context.
Architecture of the archive system depending on the nature of the archives (enterprise archives, audiovisual production archives, etc.) and the purpose (production, general public, in-house communication, teaching, etc.) with analysis of examples.
Analysis of the total cost of ownership (TCO).