Title: LRT polimedijos skaitmenizavimas
1 LITHUANIAN NATIONAL RADIO TELEVISION
2Introduction
- Short story of archives and people behind
- The Vision
3TV Archives
- Deposit
- Film deposit (16 mm, 35mm) 3.000 hours
4TV Archives
- Deposit
- Video archives Beta cam SP format 27.000 units
- 5.000 units are described/catalogued
- 15.000 units are considered as to be
described/catalogued - 7.000 units are considered as rushes/working
material, some of them could catalogued. -
- 6.940 units accommodate the production where the
rights belongs to LRT - 8.200 units accommodate the production which was
made in Lithuania.
5TV Archives
6LR Lithuanian Radio
7Mission
- Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT)
collects and announces information about
Lithuania and the world, introduces the variety
of European and world culture and basics of
modern civilization to the Lithuanian public,
strengthens independence and democracy of the
Republic of Lithuania, creates, cherishes and
preserves values of national culture, develops
tolerance and humanism, cooperation, intellection
and language culture, enhances morality and
public spirit
8History
- 1926 First Lithuanian Radio broadcasts take
start in Kaunas
- 1940 Kaunas and Vilnius Radio stations are
occupied by the Soviet - army. State Radiophon is
reorganized to Radiophication and - Radiophony (RR) committee (first
occupation).
- 1948 Sound recording department is
established, tape recording archives - are formed
- 1953 The (RR) begins sound recording
production
- 1957 First Lithuanian Television broadcast
- 1990 The status of the Lithuanian Radio and
Television is changed into - Lithuanian Radio and Television
- 1991 Armed Soviet paratroopers take over the
Lithuanian Radio and - Television and the Television
Tower in Vilnius (second occupation)
- 1994 Starts archiving live broadcasting into
MC
- 1995 Concerts are recorded into DAT
- 1998 Lithuanian Radio Channel 1 is
broadcasting with STUDER system
- 2004 Starts archiving complete Lithuanian
Radio programmes
9Time table of Radio Production Formats
- 1948 2004 Tape
- 1994 2004 MC
- 1995 2004 DAT
- 1999 2004 HDD (STUDER), CD-R
- 2005 File (DAW)
10What do Lithuanian Radio is archiving?
1948 - 1991 music and radio theatre
1991 - 2004 music, radio theatre and other
authors programmes, a part of live broadcasts
2004 - 100 of radio production
11Lithuanian Radio Sound Archives
- Tape approx 175,000
- CD 6,000
- CD-R 2,500
- DAT 2,150
- MC 800
- LP 5,000 (it is not intended to digitize for the
time being)
12Problems
- Physical obsolescence of formats and decrease in
reliability
- Decrease of content quality
- Risk of heritage loss for the future generations
13Costs
- Migration
- System engineering and administration
- Storage
14Goals
- To be in time while preserving the content!
- To establish digital radio archive
- To achieve quality and durability of recordings
- To create conditions for the effective and
immediate use of the achives - in the Intranet of the Lithuanian Radio (LR) (
for both Radio and TV needs)
- To create conditions allowing cultural and
training institutions to use - the LR sound archives for the educational aims.
15Solution
16Digitization
- Have we to digitize everything?
- Value expertise
- Priorities
17Great Concern is analogue
18Logical formats resolution
- Broadcast Wave Format BWF (EBU, AES)
Resolution
for storage 24 bit/96 kHz for archives of
special value end music (5-10) 16 bit/48 kHz
all recorded production (authors
programmes) Mp L2 (256 kbps) all the live
broadcasts
for preview Mp3 (96 kbps) all archives
for broadcast Mp L2 (256 kbps) all
archives
19Digitization equipment
- The Most Important Task is The Right Equipment!
Tape machine
A/D converter
DAW
network
20General schem
PC( Analog to Digital) video converter
PC( Analog to Digital) audio converter
Storage (Disk array, Tape library)
Access, Task, WWW, Data base server
21Manager of radio broadcasts
22Storage (Disk array)
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Music
Topical material
Topical material
News 0800-0810
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Music
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Live broadcast 1100-0310
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