My TV lies over the ocean: The digitisation of France’s overseas heritage

Geneviève Abadie, Brice Amouroux, Gérard Letienne and Sandrine Boulon
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Geneviève Abadie: Technical Department, INA, France
Brice Amouroux: Technical Department, INA, France
Gérard Letienne: Vectracom, France
Sandrine Boulon: Reverso-Softissimo, France

Journal of Digital Media Management, 2021, vol. 10, issue 2, 154-166

Abstract: This paper describes the successes and setbacks of a 12-year project to digitise over 150,000 hours of audiovisual footage from France’s overseas territories. After a brief overview of the major milestones of the project, the paper focuses on technical and metadata processing issues, and the various unexpected problems that were faced along the way.

Keywords: mass digitisation; metadata alignment; itinerant technical facility; damages audiovisual carriers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M11 M15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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