Access and management of video and Meta asset

Access and management of video and Meta asset Emanuele Porfiri Etere

Purpose of this presentation • There are different paths to create a valuable archive in a TV • Some of them are understimated

Mam & archive • • • Post production Production Video library News library Digital assets Transmission Archive

TX archive • TV asset has a code (House Code) • Archive follows transmission codes • Transmission codes are often divided into Segments!!! • This is the status of the art in archive

Postpro archives • Normally few metadata is archived • Sometimes the filename only • There is a simple spreadsheet file or an Access database

Videotape library • It’s tape centered • It archives Tapes and not videos. • This is normally the most advanced archive in the system

Production archive • Normally it is part of the production system management. • It’s another database centered on Production more than final product.

News archive • Newsroom has it’s own archive • Every journalist or group of journalists has it’s own subset of archive

Why so different • Mainly it’s an historical reason • IT system jumps in broadcasting to solve single areas problems not to organize the Tv.

How to use them • How much this content is valuable • How many times the archive content has been reused. • How many times it has been searched

Hard approach • Create a new archive system • Create a new MAM database • Convert all the existing files following the new rules • Convert all the metadata in the new format. • Force the users to use it!!! • Use the new MAM interface to perform all the operations

Soft approach • • Link the existing archive Create a common index Use them as it is Update as ‘user’ request

Soft approach basics • Use existing systems until you need to change them • Create a standard interface on the existing system • Merge them into the new asset management • Now you have a single interface to search • Now you can add metadata and links to the simple xls file

Archive interfaces Different views

VACP – – – This is the basic of the interface. It’s as old as DOS It gives you codes and descriptions only Use a 422 or Ip connection Common in every transmission archives.

MOS • • Standard on news environment Gives an extensible set of metadata, Uses an Ip connection Supports Updates

API-Dbview • This is the interface for the extreme case • Quite every database allows to create a view or a virtual table with the required info • This view can be ‘exposed’ for the connection

TXT-CSV • Those are also simple interfaces. • The mam system can read them and update the archive as they are updated

connection TXT files News arch TXT MOS News lib XLS files CSV files New MAM system Vacp Oracle Btrieve API Access Archive Automation

Federated search • A single search on all the metadata • A single interface to display the common metadata. • New and based on new technologies • Extensible set of metadata

Common database • Use SMPTE dictionary • Convert in the interface data in smpte data • Unique data catalog.

Import process Assets Multi. Format conversion Delta Analysis Input Data Approval

Screenshot of a search

Thank you