Following on the heels of the AV digitizing and archiving specialist’s participation in the International Conference on Audio-visual Archiving and Preservation in Johannesburg, South Africa, June 7–8, NOA Archive is now heading to Tunis, Tunisia to exhibit at the ASBU Radio & TV Festival & Convention. This year’s ASBU event, takes place June 12–15, and marks its 23rd edition.
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For NOA, both of these events represent strategic gatherings that address the fundamental issues and needs related to national audiovisual heritage. That’s why NOA shared the Sharjah Broadcasting Authority’s archiving journey in Johannesburg and intends to partage the same valuable use case in Tunis, which highlights and perfectly illustrates the success and efficiency of Sharjah Broadcasting Authority’s archiving journey.
Sharjah Broadcasting Authority (SBA, formerly known as Sharjah Media Corp.), is a government organization dedicated to developing the media industry in the Emirate of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, has ordered a second Archive Asset Management (AAM) mediARC system from AV digitizing and archiving specialist NOA GmbH.
SBA took delivery of its first mediARC in Q2, 2017 for the digitization and management of its entire legacy video archive consisting of 140,000 hours of Betacam, DigiBeta, U-matic, One Inch, and MiniDV tapes to SBA’s enterprise datacenter.
During the Johannesburg gathering, Sharjah´s Broadcasting Authority discussed successful way to insource a complete archive ingest and outgest workflow. Mrs. Wigdan Nassr Abdelrahman, a broadcast engineer who founded Sudan Radio, discussed how she managed — initially as an employee and then as NOA consultant — to convert Sharjah from a non-archive oriented broadcaster to an archiving-aware client. Her role, as a female engineer with the passion for archive, has inspired not only her country but the global industry as a sign of progression in respecting diversity.
Abdelrahman also delivered an exceptional presentation during the ASBU pre-conference meeting on Sunday, 11th of June about the ongoing project at Sharjah Broadcasting Authority. She and Jean-Christophe Kummer, NOA’s CEO, will be available for any follow-up questions throughout the entire conference.
“I really appreciated how Abdelrahman highlighted the process she initiated and successfully completed at and for Sharjah,” said Kummer. “SBA was the first in the region to apply the groundbreaking technique using our Archive Asset Management system, which consists of keeping three copies of documents in two separate locations that are accessible at all times. They are a great example of how insourcing processes are beneficial and effective for any organization”.
About NOA GmbH
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.
ingestLINE, actLINE, jobDB, mediARC and the entry level Pico systems safeguard future media accessibility and enterprise-wide collaboration. Advanced semantic metadata management ensures NOA’s family of products deliver efficient and reliable identification and retrieval of archival content.
NOA’s intuitive proprietary technologies are currently installed in more than thirty international institutions including Austrian National Broadcaster ORF, Sveriges Radio Förvaltnings (SRF), Yleisradio Finland (YLE), Radiotelevizija Slovenija (RTV), the national sound archives of Switzerland and Mexico, the Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep (VRT) and many more.
