Project Scale: PrestoPrime is an Integrated Project of the ICT (Information & Communication Technologies) Theme of the Seventh Framework Programme. (FP7) for Research and Technological Development.
Calendar : January 2009 > June 2012 (42 months )
Partnership: 15 partners:
- 5 Audiovisual archives, and Research departments: Ina (Coordinator), BBC, RAI, Beeld en Geluid, ORF.
- 5 Research partners, incl. 2 applied research institutes : Joanneum Research, IT Innovation, Universities of Liverpool, Innsbruck, and Amsterdam.
- 4 industrial partners, including 2 SMEs: Eurix, Ex Libris, Technicolor, Doremi.
- Europeana, (the on-line European digital Library), through EDL Foundation
Funding: 8 M€.
Project Origins:
The PrestoPrime project continues the tracks set by the Presto and PrestoPrime projects, that demonstrated the interest of developing a preservation factory approach and methods for digitising audiovisual collections, as a first step for a wide availability.
PrestoPRIME now focuses on the permanence of these audiovisual digitised collections.
Objectives:
Audiovisual content collections are undergoing a transformation from archives of analogue materials to very large stores of digital data. As time-based digital media and their related metadata are edited, re-used and re-formatted in a continuously evolving environment, the concept of the unique original loses its meaning and we require dynamic processes that can preserve indefinitely not only the audiovisual signal but also its evolving associations, context and rights.
Through the inception of a Competence Centre for the preservation of audiovisual contents, PrestoPrime will produce a complete framework for the curation of digital audiovisual heritage, integrating a wide range of tools and services, addressing among others quality and integrity assessment tools.
PrestoPRIME will research and develop practical solutions for the long-term preservation of digital media objects, programmes and collections, and find ways to increase access by integrating the media archives with European on-line digital libraries in a digital preservation framework.
This will result in a range of tools and services, delivered through a networked Competence Centre. It will create a metadata conversion and deployment toolkit, with a novel and efficient process for metadata vocabulary alignment, annotation and services for user-generated content metadata. A rights management system and audiovisual fingerprint registry will make it possible to track and manage content at all stages of its lifecycle, in all contexts of use.
The Competence Centre will be positioned as a facilitating body for the European audiovisual Archives, providing economic models, references to services, and good practice guides.
INA role:
In addition to their role as a coordinator, INA will set up a system for indexing TV streams, based on the INA-Signature technology. INA will also be highly involved in the inception of the Competence Centre.
Partner roles:
Doremi (F) : Developer for JPEG2000 encoding systems (SD and HD, candidate for the "high quality archive format").
Rai (I): AV rights management in Europe.
IT Innovation (UK), University of Liverpool (UK), Ex Libris (Israel), BBC (UK) : Evaluation and comparison of existing approaches for distributed secure storage management.
University of Liverpool (UK): Permanence of playback solutions for digital formats.
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Beeld en Geluid (NL) : Exploitation of UGC (User-Generated-Contents) for indexation.
Joanneum Research (AT): Quality measurement and tracking.
Joanneum Research (AT), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL) : metadata Interoperability.
Eurix (I), ExLibris (Israel): Integration, Workflows, Integrated commercial solutions.
