Vienna, AUSTRIA — 26 January 2015 — Archive operators in Sweden will substantially accelerate ingest workflows with NOA’s next release of Metadata Finder (MDF). MDF was initially developed as a tool for VRT in Belgium and its new features will help to catalogue ingested media up to four times faster.
NOA worked with Sweden’s SRF (Sveriges Radio Förvaltnings) to reduce the time spent indexing material with the increasingly sophisticated metadata required for long-term archival value. Originally developed to increase the efficiency of digitisation from CD, Metadata Finder’s technology will be enhanced to request data from online resources and with existing metadata repositories. By interrogating sources such as freedb and MusicBrainz, MDF efficiently presents established metadata choices to the ingest cataloguer, and improves the archived content’s semantic linking.
“Month by month it becomes more important to annotate archived content intellectually and semantically so that it can be found and accessed easily by anyone,” said Christophe Kummer, CEO of NOA. “In the long run only well-granulated metadata will allow archival repositories to meet the convergence challenges.”
MDF is available as part of NOA’s suite of archival ingest tools and will be delivered as upgrade to clients who already make use of the tool.
More information is available directly from NOA at www.noa-audio.com or by phone at + 43 1 545 2700.
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About VRT
The Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie (Flemish Radio and Television Broadcasting Organization), or VRT, is the national public-service broadcaster for the Flemish Region and Community of Belgium.
About SRF
SRF (Sveriges Radio Förvaltnings) provides support services for Swedish Radio and it is responsible for the maintenance of the sound archive, consisting of published records, in-house production and a sheet music library.
About NOA
NOA is the leading global provider of flexible turnkey solutions for quality-controlled digitizing, archiving, description and retrieval of AV and other media content. Scalable to suit collections of all sizes, NOA’s product families, ingestLINE™, mediARC™, actLINE™ and jobDB™, not only help ensure long-term preservation of media, but also support enterprise-wide collaboration, efficiency, and productivity by enabling fast and accurate identification and retrieval of clips from the full range of an enterprise’s archive. NOA’s easy-to-use proprietary technologies are today installed in some 20 high-profile enterprises worldwide, including Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep (VRT), Yleisradio Finland (YLE), Radiotelevizija Slovenija (RTV), Fonoteca Nacional de Mexico and the Austrian Broadcaster ORF. With headquarters in Vienna, Austria, NOA is committed to the ongoing development of innovative technologies to ensure the maintenance of invaluable cultural heritage for future generations. For detailed information please visit the NOA website at www.noa-audio.com.
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