A service public archive between outsourcing and service centre

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A service public archive between outsourcing and
service centre

Theo Mäusli
FIAT/IFTA Conference Lisbon October 29, 2006

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• Name Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua
  italiana
• Purpose Production of two Italian-language TV
  and three Italian-language radio channels
• Ownership structure/Legal form Enterprise unit
• Established in 1931 (RSI) 1961 (TSI)

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Programme production

• RSI 26'376 hours/year
• TSI 14'521 hours/year

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Workforce converted into full-time equivalents

• RSI 292.2 persons
• TSI 730.9 persons

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• Audiovisual archive radio/tv/(multimedia)
• Historical enterprise archive
• Multimedia and educational/cultural activities
   memory of the territory 

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Collaborators teche

• 53 collaborators
• 43 capacities
• 34 documentators
• 8 project collaborators

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Annual Budget

• 8 mio sFr. (5,1 mio E) projects

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Project Objectives

• A unique Digital Archive for multimedia content
  (audio and video) to be used both from Radio
  (RSI) and TV (TSI)
• Legacy Data Bases (Radio programmes, TV
  programmes and Music) integration to provide a
  Content Management system
• New Sony NewsBase TV newsroom integration to
  couple tape less digital archiving to digital
  news production
• Radio production integration
• Massive migration of historical audio and video
  recordings to the Digital Archive
• Digital Logging of radio and TV broadcasting
• A new Content Management system based on the RAI
  Multimedia Catalogue.
• Next steps
• Integration with the Traffic System
• Integration with the WEB Publishing
• Integration with the DRM system
• Massive migration of analogue video archive to
  the Digital Archive

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Different kind of supports, different approach
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Criteria for outsourcing

• Quantity
• Internal resources
• Social responsibility
• Market(prices)

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Criteria quantity (return of investment)
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Criteria internal resources

• Content know how
• Technical know how
• Confidence in broadcast quality standard
• Logistics
• Machines existing
• Challenge for archive manager and team

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Negative criteria internal resources

• Complex administrative terms (HR, collective
  contractual problems, Investment policy)
• High internal prices
• Internal insensibility on long term archive
• Problematical collaboration between IT and
  Archive
• Internal resources not existing or at too high
  cost
• Risk for archive manager

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Social responsibility

• Gratifying work for journalists and technicians
  at the end of the carrier
• Can help to use competences which are no longer
  needed after production change into the digital
  world
• Offering student jobs to correct conditions
• Outsourcing can create dynamical satellite firms
  and start ups

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A case study the Beta Suisse project
 
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Problems to resolve

• 100000 hours of video on various Beta formats
• Contents on oxide tapes in immediate danger
• Production systems (tv, radio, multimedia) in
  brief terms unable to read beta
• Need for massive and fast digitalization
• Little money

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Key indications Beta Suisse
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steps

• Synergies for interesting quantities
• Market/Benchmark
• Analyse of internal resources
• Business model (with partners and management)
• System production/investments

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Workflow
Control result protocoll Chose Best effort Range
Beta and ingest LTO3
Physical and barcode control
Mecanic an climat sicure transport

• Automatic polishing and tape control

E-Vtr lecture and digitalization on imx files
Automatic stocking of 280 cassettes
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Outsourcing with Beta Suisse?

• Digitalizing
• Long term archiving
• Consulting
• Licence
• Non profit, but possible financial source for
  more digitalizing and archive opening

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Why did we do that?

• Interesting quantities and return of investment
  through collaboration
• Existing manforce, know how and logistics instead
  of finance
• Saved two work places
• Quality garanty
• Got competence center
• Internal rinforcement of archive position not
  asking but offering
• Satisfaction

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Grazie dellattenzione
Theo.maeusli_at_rtsi.ch