Digitising a multi-language, multi-length audiovisual collection: The National Film Board of Canada experience

Christian Ruel and Julie Dutrisac

Journal of Digital Media Management, 2013, vol. 2, issue 1, 57-69

Abstract: The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has developed an innovative and ingenious approach to digitising its multi-language and multi-length audiovisual collection. This major institutional undertaking required organisational changes and met with various technological challenges. NFB’s technological solutions were based on two very important concepts: that of work and of composition. In addition, the implementation of these concepts had to be cost-effective and with minimum impact on daily operations. The NFB has thus developed a series of tools, from metadata schema to delivery application, in order to facilitate the digitisation of its collection with as much automation as possible.

Keywords: asset management; DAM; digitisation; digital deliverables; digital master; digital preservation; digital source master; media workflow; metadata; mezzanine file (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M11 M15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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