ABC Moving Image Archive

ABC Content Management

Janelle Mikkelsen – ABC Manager Collections

The ABC Archive collections and establishing digitisation priorities for cassette format videotape collections

MAS

VARIOUS – NEWSFOUR CORNERSAUS STORY, CLIPSFOR CORRHARD DRIVES etc

VARIOUS – R&LLOCAL RADIOREGIONAL VIDEO

TASPhotos

WCMS(Web)

NETIA(Radio)

EVS(Production)

PROD02(TV, iView)

STRATUS(News)

VARIOUS – EDITSTORAGE, HARDDRIVES, ETC

VARIOUS – HARDDRIVES, FILESHARES.ETC.

FILM, VIDEO TAPE, AUDIO

CD, HARD DRIVES

ABC DIGITAL ARCHIVE(CoDA)

DMG

MEDIA HUB

NATIONALARCHIVES of

AUST

DNLARCHIVES

NETIA

BROADCASTMUSIC BANK

MEDIAPROXY

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THESE RESULTS

Content Management are currently working on….

Increased interoperability between storage and production systems enabling better

content sharing and asset movement

Consistent metadata and a unique identifier to be associated with media

throughout the content lifecycle

Workflows - enhanced automation and leveraging new technologies for example

voice to text cataloguing

Our goal is to be tape free and to reduce duplication and the amount of ad-hoc

storage used across the organisation

Digital Video Collections

CoDA (Digital Archive) • 181,605 video files

Stratus (News)• 871 TB

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Moving Image Collections

Physical Assets

• Video – 342,910 tapes

• Film – 290,000 segs

CoDA - ABC DIGITAL ARCHIVE

Cloud based storage with a web based search interface

ABC Digital Archive

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• Single source of metadata replacing 5 disparate systems

• Unmediated access for research and content making

• New video and audio uploaded daily

• Legacy material digitised over time

• Planned integration with production systems

• Continuous improvement

Cornerstone Selection

Cornerstone Selection

Objectives

• Optimise the value of content produced by and for ABC

• Curate content that meets the requirements of ABC content makers

for relevant and accessible video

• Ensure unique, relevant, and distinct Australian content is available to

content makers and audiences

• Curate a broad and comprehensive collection that inspires storytelling

about our past, present and future

• Minimise the need to purchase/licence or record new material

• Ensure ongoing availability of content with the greatest potential to

enhance future ABC productions and initiatives

• Enable ABC’s ability to repurpose content via a variety of platforms

• Identify and curate milestones in the history of the ABC

• Mitigate risk of loss of valued content through format obsolescence

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Facilitate production, re-use and creation of new content

Content Making Resource

Content making value

Rights considerations

FormatObsolescence

How is high value content

defined?

• High potential for exploitation on new

platforms; Recognised as a flagship ABC

program

• High cultural and historical interest.

• Features significant footage of historic

moments as well as notable Australians

• Recognised as controversial, generating public

interest

• Potential to foster innovation and collaboration

ABC wide

• Potential to increase reach to new ABC

audience segments

• Opportunity for further monetisation

• Significant interviews with high profile

people

• Significant ceremonial events (Apology to

Stolen Generation)

• Significant national events (Mabo, Martin

Place attack)

• Significant disaster and weather events

(Black Friday)

• Significant concerts and live performances

• Significant criminal cases

• Significant press conferences (Bob Hawke

after America’s Cup win)

• Representative of a place or time

• Captures activities of high-profile

personalities

• Features significant natural history footage

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THESE RESULTS

RIGHTS VALUESUnencumbered – Is unencumbered by [difficult or expensive] rights/underlying rights licensing considerations

Minimum Difficulty – Is encumbered with minimum rights/underlying rights licensing considerations

Moderate Difficulty - Is encumbered with moderate rights/underlying rights licensing considerations

Encumbered – Is encumbered with difficult or expensive rights/ underlying rights licensing considerations

IP

Third Party Copyright – Copyright owned by a third party

Value Matrix Unpublished Content

Unpublished content has not been

published in its entirety and includes:

• rushes, ISOs and raw recordings

• clean versions of ABC News and

Current Affairs

• edited versions of ABC productions

not published ABC-produced

content not broadcast

• final versions of event recordings

commissioned by the ABC

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Some of what has been selected for the cornerstone digitisation project

Selections

• Daily News – clean versions of daily news

• Weekly News – clean version of weekly news

• Arts programming – interview and live performance based programs

• Factual programming – Indigenous programming

• Regional and rural programming - natural history

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