LRT polimedijos skaitmenizavimas

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LITHUANIAN NATIONAL RADIO TELEVISION
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Introduction

• Short story of archives and people behind
• The Vision

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TV Archives

• Deposit
• Film deposit (16 mm, 35mm) 3.000 hours

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TV 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.

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TV Archives

• Video Deposit

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LR Lithuanian Radio
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Mission

• Extract

• 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

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History

• 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

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Time table of Radio Production Formats

• 1948 2004 Tape
• 1994 2004 MC
• 1995 2004 DAT
• 1999 2004 HDD (STUDER), CD-R
• 2005 File (DAW)

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What 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

• News

• Live broadcasts

• All authors programmes

• Radio theatre

• Music

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Lithuanian 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)

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Problems

• Archive storages

• Physical obsolescence of formats and decrease in
  reliability

• Risk during replay

• Decrease of content quality

• Risk of heritage loss for the future generations

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Costs

• Migration
• System engineering and administration
• Storage

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Goals

• 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.
  

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Solution
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Digitization

• Have we to digitize everything?
• Value expertise
• Priorities

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Great Concern is analogue
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Logical formats resolution

• Broadcast Wave Format BWF (EBU, AES)

• Mp3

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
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Digitization equipment

• The Most Important Task is The Right Equipment!

Tape machine
A/D converter
DAW
network
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General schem
PC( Analog to Digital) video converter
PC( Analog to Digital) audio converter
Storage (Disk array, Tape library)
Access, Task, WWW, Data base server
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Manager of radio broadcasts
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Storage (Disk array)
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2004.01.13
2004.01.11
2004.01.10
Music

Topical material
Topical material
News 0800-0810
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Music
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Live broadcast 1100-0310
Weather
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