Digital Media Archiving

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Content

Demonstrator setup Architecture & functionality Current research Screenshots of user interfaces

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Demonstrator setup

Transcoding farm

Metadata DB

Browse/keyframes

9TB

Temp storage12TB

Tape library LTO4

IBBT

VRT

Videohouse

IBBT

SDI

FTP PUSH

Vivesta control software+ visual quality control

(with metadata)

Metadata in XML fil

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or MediaDRAIN

GUI

Vizrt videoservers

SDI

FTP PUSH

Vivesta control software+ visual quality control

(with metadata)

Metadata P/METAin XML

Basisplus

Backup tape E-VTRMediaDRAIN

FTP PULL

Metadata in XML file or in MediaDRAIN

GUIMetadata in MediaDRAIN

GUI or through XML

GLOBAL ARCHIVE INGEST CONFIGURATION

Flexicart + 2 VTRs

KPS

NAS

Metadata from KPS and basisplus

Ardome

Vizrt videoservers

NAS

Metadata:P/META

or proprietary

Flexicart + 2 VTRs

Flexicart + 2 VTRs

High res

XDCAM

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Solution: file-based archiving

File archivingFile archiving

video

audio

data pictures

mxf

mpeg4

mp3

jpg tiffdoc xls

MediaDRAIN

metadat

a

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Architecture & functionality

SQL server

MediaDRAINMetadata database

Ethernet/IPnetwork

5.5-11TB net capacityRAID6 and mirrored

MediaDRAIN storage (SATA)

STORAGE POOL STORAGE POOL

5.5-11TB net capacityRAID6

MediaDRAIN storage (SATA)

STORAGE POOL STORAGE POOLTAPE archive

5.5-11TB net capacityRAID6 and mirrored

MediaDRAIN storage (SATA)

BROWSE

MediaDRAINClient software

MediaDRAINClient software

MediaDRAINClient software

AVID storage

TRANSCODING FARMBrowse+keyframes

Webserver

Web access

Videoserver

Playout

Production

AVIDtransfermanager

Productionarchive

Editing stations

MediaDRAINClient software

Ingest to archive

Sony EVTR

MediaDRAIN archive

Hierarchical storage management

AutomaticIngest server

Search Manager

server

Export manager

server

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Differentiators

Open system Long term access guaranteed

Low cost: SATA Linux own development modular not loaded with expensive features

Scalability & robustness Storage and clients

Security: UNIX based storage

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Current research

Ontology based searches E.g. ‘What did the prime minister of Belgium say about

nuclear energy in 2000 ?’ Faster search and indexing Named Entity Recognition Performance of existing voice and image recognition

algorithms for metadata extraction

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Professional user interface

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Web user interface

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