Digital Archives System DAS Swiss Radio DRS Presentation EBU Dublin

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Digital Archives System DAS Swiss Radio
DRS Presentation EBU Dublin

• 19 April 2007

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Content

• Summary
• Potential of the Digital Archive System DAS
• Digitisation
• Network integration
• Problems of the project DAS
• Added value
• Profitability
• Feedback to DAS
• Archive systems at SRG SSR idée suisse (Swiss
  Broadcasting Corporation)

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1. Digital Archive System (DAS) Summary (1)

• relational data base for State of the Art
  archival requirements
• perfectly integrated into a modern digital radio
  environment
• this includes the direct linkage with the
  broadcasting and the music programming systems
• linkage to mass storage
• direct linking with digitisation stations for
  magnetic tapes and CDs

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1. Digital Archive System (DAS) Summary (2)

• Based on the product 'Media Archives' of Blue
  Order
• The existing BASIS archive database had to be
  replaced by a differentiated data model and the
  entire stored data had to be migrated.
• The integration of different types of audio
  elements were a high challenge DAS is now
  suitable for the characterisation and retrieval
  of classical music, light and popular music or
  sounds, as well as for speech - all on the same
  surface.

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1. Digital Archive System (DAS) Summary (3)

• Simple editorial search as well as extensive
  search (documentaries and features)
• Pre-listening and direct export to any other
  digital system
• The entire broadcast production is stored in a
  separate part and can be researched in broadcast
  protocols in broadcast quality
• In addition to audio elements in different
  formats, the digital archive system also stores
  accompanying materials and photos
•  Operational since summer 2006

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2. Potential of DAS (1)

• Search
• Simple or extensive search in metadata of
  archived programmes (thesauri, master data
  support the consistency)
• in all 5 programmes via broadcast plans
• search over all stored data and types of content
  (music, speech, sounds)
• Pre-listening
• All digitised stored data can be listened to.

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2. Potential of DAS (3)

• Transfer from the broadcast system into DAS
• Audio elements are selected by programme
  representatives in collaboration with DA
  (documentation archives) and imported directly
  from DigaSystem into DAS (metadata inclusive).

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3. Digitisation of the archive in cooperation

• 200'000 speech outputs and live music recordings
  in the archives of SR DRS (Swiss Radio DRS
  German-speaking Swiss Radio)? 25 are
  digitised? selection by programme
  representatives
• Support by "Memoriav" / national co-financing/
  Lotteriefonds
• A total of 3,5 employees of Swiss Radio DRS and
  Memoriav for digitisation
• Audible for the public in libraries/archives via
  Memobase

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4. Network integration
FAStT 600 42x 146,8 GB
aCMS-Netzwerk
p520-TSM
SRDRS-network
SR DRS Netzwerk
x345-Web
x345-DM
Fibrechannel-Netzwerk
FASTt600 42 x 146 GB -MediaArchive (essence
data) -database
x360-DB
1 Gbit house net 146.159.175.1xx 255.255.255.128
x345-EM
IBM 2145 SAN Volume Controller Cluster
x345-ExpImp
IBM 3584 LTO2 with 3 drives
x345-Browse
Cisco MDS 9216 SAN Switches
x345-SAN
SAN-commu-nication 11.1.1.x 255.0.0.0
SDS systems
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5. Problems of the project DAS

• No ready-made system available on the market ?
  high adaptation input / development work of the
  supplier was necessary
• Interface to the broadcast system complex,
  responsibilities unclear
• Migration of large data volumes time-consuming,
  conceptually demanding, risk of data loss,
  knowledge of stored date necessary
• Archives databases are complex und
  challenging....because they have to manage huge
  data volumes in a sophisticated way (thesauri,
  master data, ...)
• Demand of basic and complex search ? conceptual
  work
• Many corrections necessary because of high
  complexity
• Response time powerful hardware necessary

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6. Added value

• Archived programmes for broadcasting search,
  pre-listening, export (meta data inclusive) ?
  lead time for broadcasts declines? low price
  archive audios instead of expensive new
  productions? reduction of costs in the
  traditional archives ? value maintenance and
  enhancement of in-house productions (containing
  more than 200 man years documentary work,
  approx. 13 millions of personnel
  expenditures)
• Online offers broadcasts of the archives are
  directly integrable (single broadcasts,
  catalogues, files)
• New music releases directly as digital files
  into the archives system (soon also digitally
  supplied)
• Long term storage for editorial systems (e.g.
  also for data of music programming) backbone for
  reliable metadata und stable audios

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7. Profitability (1)

• One-off project costs 2003-2007
  2.5 millions
• Reduction of costs in the programmes
  180'500 / year
• Reduction of costs in the archives division
  170'600 / year

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7. Profitability (2)storage and access
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8. Feedback to DAS

• 5 clicks, immediate pre-listening, export and the
  archived audio elements ready for broadcasting
  within minutes! Furthermore make additional use
  of a programme, re-listen to a programme section
  the DAS broadcast protocols make it possible -
  quick and uncomplicated. Jürg Oehninger, editor
  DRS 1
• "A very good working instrument with lots of
  data, simple and transparent in the sense "he
  who searches will indeed find."Simone Simona
  Meier, editor DRS 1
• "Digital radio archives are an open gate to the
  collective memory. It frees the radio from the
  chains that it has carried from the beginning
  the bondage of time."Thomas Weibel, press
  officer of Schweizer Radio DRS 2
• "DAS is a very convenient working instrument,
  even more convenient than the former archives
  database. The only thing I miss is the access to
  the entire music stock of SRG SSR (Swiss
  Broadcasting Corporation) as we used to have in
  PHONO...". Geri Stocker, music editor DRS 3

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9. Other archive systems in the broadcast
enterprises of SRG SSR (Swiss Broadcasting
Corporation)

• RSR (French-speaking Swiss Radio) System
  Siraneau of the supplier 'Questions d'images' and
  Cap Gemini as general contractor, 25 of the
  archives are digitised (in addition to
  digitisation when utilised), features of the web
  factory and Digital Rights Management (linked to
  the broadcast system) inclusive, partially extern
  access of libraries etc. via 'Bergerac',
• RTSI (Italian-speaking Swiss Radio and
  Television) Radio and TV productions in one
  archive system, LTO2-robot system, taken over
  from RAI, 60 of the old archives digitised, all
  in-house productions preserved, but only
  partially accessible.
• RTR (Romansch-speaking Swiss Radio and
  Television) rudimental archiving via DigaSystem

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Thank you for your attention

• Walter Rüegg
• walter.ruegg_at_srdrs.ch