ARCHIVES AND

PRESERVATION

EBU RELATED ACTIVITIES

STAR 2013, 19 JANUARY 2013

JEAN-PIERRE EVAIN, EBU 2

EUROVISION and EURORADIO networks (news, sports, music production and transmission)

TV and Radio co-productions TECHNICAL advice (EBU Technical)

LEGAL advice

EBU TECHNICAL - MEDIA TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

15 Engineers covering a wide domain of expertise in Television and Radio

Production

Contribution

Broadcast, broadband and mobile

Spectrum management

What is the main purpose of EBU Technical:

Represent EBU members Interests

Connect experts, users

Share knowledge

Drive R&D

Harmonise approaches and positions

Develop solutions / standards

Guide for implementation

Two years ago, I heard...

“It seems broadcasters do not pay attention to preservation !”

My response was...

“Don’t say this if you want them to take you seriously...”

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THE FUTURE DISTRIBUTION OF MEDIA

LET’S START

1993 - Tech 254 / Handling and storage of recorded videotape

1996 – Tech 268 /Maintaining a valuable programme archive in the face of change

1998 – Tech 278 / Programme Archives, an EBU production seminar

1999 – Tech 280 /Digital video archives - facing the facts

2000 – Tech 2005 /SlotFill – connecting audio/video archives via idle SNG transponders

2003 – I 038 / Guidance Notes for the Use of metadata from EBU Tech 3293 (EBUCore)

and EBU Tech 3295 (P/META)

2005 - Storage and archives for HDTV production, a presentation from IRT at an EBU

technology briefing

2006 - EBU Tech 3315 / Archiving: experiences with telecine transfer of film to digital

formats

2006 - Tech Review 308 / What archives want — the requirements for digital technology

Broadcast archive strategy - a contradiction – SVT

2008 - EBU R 105 / Digitisation of programme material in Audio Archives

2009 - Tech Report 003 Radio Archives / Conception and Practice

2009 - EBU R 133 / Transport of Subtitles using MXF in IT-based TV production

2010 - Tech Report 006 EBU / Report on Archives

2010 - EBU Tech 3331 Exchange Metadata Set v1.1

2011 - Tech Review 2011 / Automated Industrial Digitization of Betacam Tapes

2012 - Fact Sheet EBU Technology Fact Sheet on EBUCore

A SELECTION OF EBU KEY ACTIVITIES OVER 20 YEARS !

What we are following: AXF

Structured

Unstructured

Proprietary

Open

A

A V

V

Access

Control Provenance Fixity Context Reference

Universal Storage-Agnostic File System

Metadata File Payload Ancillary

Files

Asset

Components

Preservation

Elements

File System

AXF Object

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FIMS – a Framework for Interoperable Media Services

A joint EBU – AMWA initiative since 2010

FIMS 1-0 with file transfer, transform and acquisition services (Tech

3356 series)

Phase 2 will address repositories and quality control (in collaboration

with EBU QC group).

Ready for archive and preservation workflows

Many manufacturers: list is too long but 2 early adopters are IBM

and Sony.

Many users in the FIMS Business Board chaired by Turner: ABC,

AD-Id, AMWA, BBC, Bloomberg, CBC, Cognizant, EBU, ESPN, Fox,

HBO, ITV, Metaglue, MLB, MTV, NBCU, NFB, NRK, RAI, RedBee

Media, PBS, Sony, Triskel, Turner Asia Pacific, Turner UK, TV-

Globo, Viacom

What we are doing: FIMS

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FIMS: SOA for media

FIMS received the IBC 2012 Judges’ Prize and will be present again at

NAB 2013 (conference and booth)

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EUScreen and soon EUScreenXL – a portal to European AV archives

Europeana, the European Digital Library to which EUScreen

contribute with Linked Open Data

TOSCA-MP, a project for the development of automatic extraction

tools. EBU is promoting FIMS interoperability

EBU – NRK Eurovision archives project

Other archive and preservation related projects

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EBUCore of course – the Dublin Core for Media

Available in XML and RDF including classification schemes

EBU is developing an MXF SDK for EBUCore

All scenarios: embedded xml and KLV or side-car xml (or else)

EBUCore is being registered to SMPTE and EBUCore proposed to

make it the SMPTECore (new project being launched with the

support of EBU and Movilabs.

EBU will propose the use of EBUCore or SMPTECore to extract

technical dynamic metadata starting from Sony’s SMPTE RDD 18 –

acquisition metadata from tapeless camcorders

EBUCore ontology, Linked Open Data, etc.

What will be done to publish e.g. metadata published in the schema-

org format or else.

Metadata

MPEG (AND ITU, AND W3C, AES, ETC.)

Of course we also keep an eye on MPEG :--)

My colleagues or connected EBU members are involved in

audio and video activities in MPEG

We are also involved in Loudness, EBU-TT and other

signal aspects that will require due attention when

developing archive and preservation solutions

o The XML subtitles / EBU-TT activity is an important

matter for archives. EBU STL (3264) was originally

designed for that purpose

We have proposed the new AVDP metadata profile

We are in the MP-AF : where will it go?

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AND MANY OTHER ASPECTS

MXF and its various profiles defined in AMWA Application

Specifications or SMPTE/IMF (overlaps with AXF?)

Linked open data preservation rules for external resources.

Hybrid TV and second screen applications,conternt and

metadata: how to bext save the Internet for broadcasters?

Etc.

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BUT WHY ARE

WE STILL HERE

SPEAKING OF

THIS?

WHAT WENT

WRONG?

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