Fonoteca Nazionale Svizzera Upkeeps Heritage With NOA
FrameLector lets institution efficiently manage video repertoire
Vienna, Austria — 5 June 2019
The Swiss National Sound Archives, Fonoteca Nazionale Svizzera (Fonoteca) is safeguarding the country’s audio heritage with the help of AV digitizing and archiving specialist NOA GmbH.
Headquartered in Lugano, the organization which collects and catalogs audio documents relating to Swiss history and culture, has replaced its older NOA N6000 audio ingest systems with two N7000C compact units featuring digital de-emphasis curve of historical audio files. It has also purchased the NOA FrameLector dual-stream video ingest software, featuring transfer quality control for SD-video legacy sources.
Fonoteca Nazionale. Photographer: Miriam-B.C.
This move is a major step for Fonoteca (the first Swiss company to employ the NOA FrameLector) and means the institution, which has traditionally worked with a pure audio archive, now has the capacity to efficiently manage its video repertoire.
“Our partnership goes back some 14 years, and we are delighted that NOA has devised a practical video solution as well as a comprehensive way to annotate digital emphasis curves in audio files,” said Stefano Cavaglieri, CTO and CIO for Fonoteca.
The Fonoteca’s recently installed NOA technology integrates with its complete MAM system, including existing NOA MediaButler transcoding processors and DB Scripters.
“We are happy that Fonoteca in Lugano, which also has a large video collection, has chosen FrameLector as part of its solution for legacy video ingest material,” said Jean-Christophe Kummer, managing partner of NOA. This will certainly have an optimal effect on the organization’s workflow and maximizes its archiving possibilities.”
Fonoteca was created in 1987 as a foundation under private law. In January 2016 the foundation was dissolved and the Phonotheque was integrated into the Federal Office of Culture as Swiss National Sound Archives Section of the Swiss National Library. The Swiss National Sound Archives collects and catalogs audio documents that have a relationship with Swiss history and culture.
More information about NOA and its products is available at www.noa-archive.com or by phone at +43 1 545 2700.
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About Fonoteca Nazionale Svizzera
The Swiss National Sound Archives with its headquarters in Lugano is the sound archives of Switzerland and is responsible for safeguarding the sound heritage of our country.
It was created in 1987 as a foundation under private law. In January 2016 the foundation was dissolved and the Phonotheque was integrated with the Federal Office of Culture as “Swiss National Sound Archives Section” of the Swiss National Library.
The Swiss National Sound Archives collects and catalogs audio documents, both in music and in spoken word, that have a relationship with the Swiss history and culture. For example: recordings of classical, rock, jazz, and folk music, audio books, tales, theater plays, interviews, research documents (field recordings), or private collections.
NOA delivers scalable, high quality AV digitizing and archiving innovations to make audio and video archives easily available in enterprise storage facilities. Sustainable long-term preservation of media content is guaranteed as NOA’s unique products rely on open archival standards and formats, and continuous checks for transfer integrity to ensure highest possible quality of audio and video content. NOA’s turnkey solutions deliver systems to meet the specific needs of any business.
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