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FIAT/IFTA
World
Conference
2016 - Warsaw
Digital preservation infrastructure: providing new opportunities for preservation, access and beyond…
Charles Fairall
Head of Conservation
British Film Institute
Unlocking Film Heritage
Digital Past
Over a decade of digital workflow at the BFI National Archive
• Audio came first
• Digital Operations team created
• Arriscan film scanner
• For-A LTO-5 recorders
• LTO tapes stored on vault shelves
Digital Present
In-house, end-to-end capability for digitisation of BFI National Archive collections
Film scanner
• High volume, high fidelity scanning (2k)
• Safe handling of delicate film
• Continuous motion (not single frame)
• Inherent image stabilisation
• Compliments the Archive’s existing digitisation tools
Digital
Capability
Film image
Digital
Capability
Sound
Soundtrack scanner
ProTools
• Capture high quality digital image of the soundtrack
• Uses image processing and software to remove defects –dust, scratches
• Generate digital audio file
• Digitise sound directly from positive and negative film
• ProTools for editing and restoration
Digital
Capability
Post-production
Grading, editing and finishing workstations
• Grading software with grain management
• Precision panel provides intuitive user interface
• Reference picture monitor guarantees image fidelity
• Clipster creates files for Digital Cinema distribution, BFI Player and range of file types
Digital
Preservation
Infrastructure
New technology to
digitise, ingest, preserve and provide access to BFI National Archive digital collections
How did we do it?
• Peer review
• Consultation with colleagues and partners
• Requirements Document
• Competitive Dialogue Procurement
Digital
Preservation
Infrastructure
Digital
Preservation
Infrastructure
Environment
Data centre
• Secure access control
• Gas fire suppression
• Cooling and aircon
• Uninterruptible power supply (UPS)
• 10Gb fibre connectivity
Digital
Preservation
Infrastructure
Access storage
Instant access storage for viewing copies, and work-in-progress
• Instant playback of viewing copies in web browser
• Safe storage of work-in-progress for digital operations
• Hugely scaleable (700TB now, but scales to 20PB)
• High performance and speed (200 GB per second)
Digital
Preservation
Infrastructure
Long-term
archive data
storage
• Two copies of preservation files, geographically separated
• Open and enterprise tape types to achieve both archival resilience and performance
• Eliminates manual handling
• High capacity, low cost-per-GB
• Fast, durable, robust
• Self-migrating to successive tape formats in roadmap
Digital
Preservation
Infrastructure
Ingest + access
Media Asset Management (MAM)
• Give access to viewing copies in web browser to BFI staff
• Integrate with CID
• Ingest from DPI workstations
• Automatically create viewing copies and thumbnails
• Permissions based access to master preservation files
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