AIBD/Prasar Bharati/NABM In-Country workshop on Audio-Visual Archiving
The in-country workshop on audio-visual archiving organised by AIBD in collaboration with Prasar Bharati and National Academy of broadcasting and Multimedia (NABM) was held in Kolkata, India from 6 to 10 July 2015. The workshop was designed specifically for broadcast engineers/technicians/programme personnel associated with audio and audio-visual archives.
The in-country workshop on audio-visual archiving organised by AIBD in collaboration with Prasar Bharati and National Academy of broadcasting and Multimedia (NABM) was held in Kolkata, India from 6 to 10 July 2015. The workshop was designed specifically for broadcast engineers/technicians/programme personnel associated with audio and audio-visual archives.
The first day of the workshop covered restoration and archiving of audio-visual material. Media asset Management (MAM) systems installed at Central Archive, Delhi were discussed in-depth as part of the training. This system is designed and maintained by M/s Dallet and M/s NetApp of U. K. Further a schematic of Dallet MAM at Delhi was discussed. Then a detailed explanation was given to the trainees on Tarsys MAM designed, supplied and installed by M/s Tedial Spain.
Latter, participants interacted on issues concerning archives of All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan (DD) stations.
A white paper presented by M/s DW Germany earlier, was also included as part of training documents. This was discussed in order to give complete perspective of the status of Audio -visual archives in the country and deliberate on principles and practices behind it. The contents provided by M/s Tedial and M/s DW have been included with their due permission as it was officially provided for training to AIR and DD archival staff
Practical presentations were given to the trainees by team of Kolkata Archives headed by Mr Manas and Mr Ranveer. The presentations were given on physical and digital restoration of old media, extracting audio-visual output, creating meta data, ingesting, making clips and sub-clips, archiving on LTO 6 and retrieval of archived clips and outgest.
Twenty four participants from the engineering/programmme department of Air India Radio and Doordarsan attended the workshop. The workshop was conducted at their regional station Kolkata where Prasar Bharati have recently installed and commissioned a new Media Asset Management (MAM) system. Thus, participants also got an opportunity for hands on training.
