rai archives: looking to the future. alberto messina, laurent boch, rai
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RAI Archives: looking to the future
Alberto Messina, Laurent BochRAI – Centre for Research and Technological Innovation
FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2015Workshop
«Thinking the archives of 2020: opportunities, priorities, issues»
Vienna, Friday October 9th 2015
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Summary
Current projects @ RAI archives Looking to future documentation & access modelsStorage for future archives – some thoughts
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Master DigitisationPRIORITY
Output Formats: MXF/XDCAM HD422 25Pand HD – HiQual – 422 10bits
Output Format = MXF/ D10
let‘s see if it’s really okay! makes additional disaster
recovery copy over LTFS(RAI open source tool)
orchestrates reception of
digitisation output
production & archive media factory
hasRights?hasCopies?
whichMaster?hasPriority?
hasEditorialValue?isMadeUpOfReels?
hasIdentfiers?
betacam, IMX, 16mm films, etc
reads barcode, verifies statuds
Facts: 1300K beta+imx tapes; 800K film items; (before selection, expected 20% after);start by 2015Q4 with 3 Robotics; at full steam by 2016Q1; expected time of completion 5 years.
check-in
REPO
Verification
(“bonifica”, lang=“it”)
T3transition-to-tapeless
delivery
QC
ASPID
service architecture for
data integration
10x Automated Digitisation of Betacam+IMX
tape cleaner
3x IMX/EVTR
10x Manually operated Film Scanning Station
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Rights Automation
Current issuesVarious different systems and practicesNeed to check with narrative textual clausesWeak links between Rights and AV-materialToo many manual processes & duplicationLegacy systems / lack of flexibilityLack of reliable /detailed information on reuse of archival excerpts in new productions
ChallengesScope is Television, Radio, and CinemaHandling the exploitation rights along their life-cycleno ambiguity => no need to read again textual clauses Continuously updating available rights in consequence of
contract variants consumption of runs / expiration sales with exclusivity
Search & analysis on rights portfolioCriteria
get all the people involvedaccept idea of revising work-flowssimplify user interfaces as much as possible
same interface might be integrated with multiple systems
give priority to input of new contracts
PRIORITY
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Rights Automation
Complete rights sheets, add link to content
BUYER
RIGHTS
USER
rights clearance made directly by the users
RaiChannelsRai Com Rai Web Rai Pubblicità
disclairmers & constraints
rights sheet in MPEG-21 MCO
Time line
Video Video clip 1 Video clip 2 Video Clip 3
Documentazione metadata
Content 1 “Napoli prima e dopo i 4 giornate” di Aldo Zappalà Repertorio Ist. Luce
Diritti metadata
Right 1 c.n. 1051801560; free tv, pacch italia, scad. 29.04.2012 AQ. Free tv, scad 31/12/2011
Content
Contracts
BIP
analysis
Links to administrative systems…
Benefits of adopting MPEG-21 MCO it supports the expression of contract condition in our scope.
Flexible, as it is possible to select the desired degree of generality / specificity; the various dimensions of the conditions can be combined in
all needed ways, for expressing the “reference exploitation rights” approved by the legal department.
Easy to extend and to integrate rights information with other domains. Not just an organisational model, but a standard that can be widely used.
The Media Contract Ontology (MCO) is a standard of MPEG-21 multimedia framework. An electronic
format for machine readable contracts on media rights. The 1st edition was issued in 2013, the 2nd
edition is under ballot, exp. 2016.
PRIORITY
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Metadata Automation
Service-based integration of Automated Information Extraction tools
Genre categorisationMachine translationSpoken language identificationAutomated sport content analysisQuality analysisVisual clustering and visual search
Opportunity
http://tosca-mp.euMaterial selection
Featuresgeneration
Test patterns
Featuresselection
Learning/Trimming
phase
Testphase
Operationalphase
Training patterns
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OpportunityFrom media to semantics
Current metadata practises are mostly media-centricYou inspect or analyse the mediaYou document the mediaYou search for the media through metadata
Future approach: metadata (h)as value!Exploiting semantics Entities, relations, inferencesMedia as one particular instance or realisationFeed for new ways of making media business
Data – Driven Journalism
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Supporting technologies – Visual Search
Query(e.g., from a camera, existing programme)
Visual search
Result(e.g. from broadcast archive)
Visual SearchOpportunity
http://ict-bridget.eu
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Storage
Archives in 2020 will face several challengesIncrease of content qualityResolution, frame rate, dynamic range
Increase of distribution and publication channelsDigital TVInternet
– Web is worth being archivedMobile
– Apps are worth being archivedDigitization of archivesMillions of hoursWhere to put resulting stuff?
ISSUE
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Storage - AMS
Advanced Cloud Storage for MediaFirst efforts in VISION Cloud, FP7, 2010-2014Key ideas
Computation near mediaContent-based access rather than location-basedRich metadata management at the storage level
Further development in collaboration with IBM in 2015
RAI MediaBridge
Archive application: metadata enrichment, digital preservation processes, quality checks
OpportunityMedia Bridge Middleware
Media Project Management Interface
Projects Contents
Essence Rich Metadata Relations
Compu-
tational Tasks
Identity Management
Interface
User Account
Access Policie
s
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Conclusions
Digitise assets is only the first stepYou have content safe
Make contract and rights managment efficientYou can use it
Exploitation of (meta)data & semanticsYou can make new business
Storage (& computation) is a challengeYou can sustain the business
PRIORITY
OpportunityISSUE
PRIORITYOpportunity
Opportunity
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Contacts
Alberto MESSINARAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana
Centre for Research and Technological [email protected]
Laurent BOCHRAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana
Centre for Research and Technological Innovation
Roberto ROSSETTORAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana
THANK YOU!