If AVATAR-m and archiving in general of interest then we strongly recommend you come along to the session today in which Dr Matthew Addis is presenting our latest white paper: A Service Oriented Approach to Online Digital Audiovisual Archive.
The session is being held in Las Vegas Convention Center: S226/227, and runs from 1pm to 4.30pm.
Our white paper will be available for download later today.
We’re rolling into the final day of what has been a tremendously exciting and worthwhile NAB09 for us. For the next five hours you can still come along to SU7235 and see the demonstration of our groundbreaking archive managment software, and discuss with the developers and researchers themselves how we might potentially cooperate in the future. If you think this might be of use to you, please do come along today- we do have colleagues based in the US, but we’ll not be bringing these demonstrations over again, and unless you’ll be at IBC 09 in september, this really could be the last chance to see.
We’re delighted to be able to show our new promotional film for the project here for the first time. Available to view on the Public Documents page, and hosted on Vimeo, our film introduces the business and technical challenges we’re seeking to address with the project, and technical experts from across the consortium outline the innovations they are bringing to the effort. We’d like to thank the guys at Milo Creative for their efforts on the film and designing the web site for us too.
Avatar-M Promo film, NAB 2009 from Ant Miller on Vimeo.
We’ll have DVDs of the film available on stand SU7325, and the full HD version showing too (we hope!).
We’ve just updated out White Papers section with two additional papers from the last 12 months:
Sustainable Archiving and Storage Management of Audiovisual Digital Assets is from IBC last year and focuses on specifying and governing federated storage services for archive.
A Service Oriented Approach to Online Digital Audiovisual Archives was presented at the NEM summit in St. Malo last year and focusses on how to use SOA for meeting the business needs of archives.
Welcome to the brand new Avatar-M website, launched to coincide with our appearance at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, USA. In this website we hope to give you a good overview of the business needs we are addressing, and the technologies we’ve developed to meet the challenges. There are White Papers and other guides to download, and we’ll soon have a copy of our promotional video available too.
At NAB the project will be displaying our first generation demonstration systems on stand SU7325. In this first iteration of the demonstrator you’ll be able to see how our systems can ingest and manage large volume data storage over disparate platforms, and we hope to demonstrate integration with broadcast standard editing equipment and workflows.
If you’re interested in exploring the future of large scale A/V archival we’d be delighted to discuss how we can cooperate in the future.