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| VOA to transition to file-based workflow |
| by GV staff |
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December 22, 2008
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The Voice of America has selected Front Porch Digitals DIVArchive to facilitate secure storage and efficient identification and retrieval of its video assets as part of a transition to a tapeless, file-based workflow.
A multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government, VOA programming is produced in 45 languages and broadcast approximately 1,500 hours a week to an estimated audience of more than 134 million people worldwide. With round-the-clock news deadlines, VOA is large and logistically complex -- and required to abide by the federal government's recordkeeping requirements. As a result, the it faces multiple challenges when it comes to identifying, storing, and affording appropriate access to media content.
At VOA, DIVArchive will move assets between Omneon media servers and a Spectra T950 tape library under the direction of Dalet media asset management. Initially, the workflow will be configured with 13 TB of nearline SAN and 3,500 hours of storage on LTO-4 datatapes. DIVArchive combines software and hardware components to provide a turnkey system that simplifies preservation, management, and retrieval of media content.
DIVArchive will be installed with a single manager and actor, but the system's modular architecture makes it infinitely scalable, which will enable its eventual expansion to provide a platform for a system of shared content covering television channels in 25 languages. VOA plans to digitize and ingest into the system content now residing on legacy videotape as needed.
VOA is set to install DIVArchive this month, and the system is expected to be online next spring.
MORE INFO
Dalet dalet.com
Front Porch Digital fpdigital.com
Omneon omneon.com
Spectra Logic spectralogic.com
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