Question 21.

Will you be creating low quality proxies and storyboards during the digitalization of the media to be preserved ? Will you be using DVD, CD-ROM or Hard Disks to store these proxies and storyboards ?

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ANTENA 3

• Yes. Hard disks

BBC

• Yes. For 8 years we have been making MPEG I (at 1.4 M b/s) on CD. We have done trial projects making keyframes, and plan to introduce keyframe extraction into preservation work, with the keyframes stored on hard disks (with datatape backup)

BNT

• There is not a final resolution. Some hesitation exists whether to use tapes or discs. The strategy is not yet completed.

CBC - BARBADOS

CBC / SRC

• Probably proxies on hard disks, but the final choice has not been made yet

CBSNEWS

CPRDP- PUERTO RICO

• Yes, Hard Disks

CT - CZECH TELEVISION

• Yes, by means of server technology

DR - DANMARKS RADIO

• There will be made proxies and key frames/storyboards during the digitalization, and these will be stored on servers.

DUNA TELEVISION

• Yes, to Hard Disk Array

ERTT

• Not yet.

ETB

• Yes, we think that is important, surely on hard disks.

GLOBO TV

• We plan to keep just low resolution proxies. During a period of time, these proxies will be held on hard disks. After that, they will be moved to DVD libraries

INA

• Low quality (viewing format) : see question 20
• Story boards are made when digitised documents are reconsidered to constitute theme based corpuses.

KBS

• We plan to create WMV (windows media video), MPEG-1 digital video and thumbnail images for use in searching, browsing and EDL editing. We plan to preserve these files in a disk array system in order to allow for real time searching and browsing

NAA

• Not yet decided

NBC

• Most likely. Under review. Hard Disks and/or data tape has been discussed.

NHK

• Partly yes, partly no.We must decide each to be preserved or not, because of its cost. In case of preserving, we are using Hard Disks.

ORF

• Most likely but not decided yet (digital newsroom:yes, keyframes on HD-storage)

RAI

• We use Hard Disk and data tape to store low quality assets.

RTBF

RTSI

• Yes, first DVD, then Hard Disk

SCREENSOUND AUSTRALIA

• Video browsing copies on MPEG-1 at 1.5 to 2 Mb/s, and JPEG keyframes or thumbnails
• Audio browsing on MPEG-1 layer 3 at 128 kb/s
• Later plans are for MPEG-4 and streaming

SF DRS

• Not yet decided, but in any case we will create key frames and Low Resolution copies for preview at the journalists workstations

SVT

• Hard discs and data tapes

SWR

• During digitizing of items, low- as well as high-bandwidth copies in Mpeg 4 and Mpeg 2 and keyframes (jpg) are created. The storage system comprises a hard disk based online storage area and a digital library tape solution for nearline storage. DVD or CDROM are no appropriate formats for long-term preservation, but probably they are suitable for additional on-demand play-out.

TROS

TRT

• Low resolution copies of the material will be produced during digitalization and it will be stored on Hard Disks.

TV4 - SWEDEN

• Proxies have been stored on discs since almost two years. Only low resolution Real video

TV CATALUNYA

• We have a system similar to Virage to extract key-frames. The key-frames are preserved in the data-base in Hard disks. A low quality copy of the video itself in MPEG-1 is preserved also in hard disk.

TVM - TELEVISION DE MAURITANIE

• No

YLE

• Yes, those are just the proxy/storyboard formats we have been talking about.