Tedial presents its new Archivator solution for the conservation of digital files in Denmark

Archivator, a new product on which he has been working for more than three years together with five other companies (two Norwegian, one German, one Austrian and one Spanish, plus technical advice from the Department of Computer Architecture of the University of Malaga) aims to revolutionize the long-term digital information conservation market in the coming years.

Tedial Participate from this Tuesday until June 15 in Archiving 2012, an international conference that brings together experts and representatives from all over the world in the field of digitization and archival conservation for four days in Copenhagen (Denmark).

At this meeting, Tedial, as the only Spanish representative, will present Archivator, a new product on which it has been working for more than three years together with five other companies (two Norwegian, one German, one Austrian and one Spanish, plus the technical advice of the Department of Computer Architecture of the University of Malaga), and which aims to revolutionize the long-term digital information conservation market in the coming years.

Archiving es un evento organizado por la Sociedad para la Ciencia de la Imagen y la Tecnología (IS&T) que reúne cada año a los principales expertos de bibliotecas, archivos, gestión de registros e instituciones de tecnologías de la información para discutir y explorar el creciente campo de la preservación digital y gestión de material impreso, audio y vídeo. En este encuentro profesional se dan cita la industria, el mundo académico, los gobiernos e instituciones del patrimonio cultural para presentar y debatir las investigaciones más recientes en este campo. Archiving se celebra en Europa y en América del Norte en años alternos y es desde 2004, su primera edición, el principal congreso de la industria de la conservación de archivos digitales.

In this framework, and before a capacity with the most prominent image scientists and experts in the cultural heritage sector, Tedial's technical advisor and professor at the University of Malaga, Óscar Plata, will present on the 13th the Archivator project, a product that has "a huge potential market, with public and private organizations around the world that need to save and preserve their most critical and important information with guarantee for a long period of time", according to José Mesas, general director of Tedial.

Manage and preserve a huge volume

Faced with a world that is generating an enormous amount of digital material daily, one of the biggest challenges today is how to manage and preserve this information in a secure and lasting way over time. Current storage systems present many problems due to the longevity of the support (they do not last more than 25 years) and the information itself (data that is corrupted over time, viruses...). Currently, information migration tasks are carried out every approximately five years, but it is also a process in which the stored data can be altered or degenerated. There are compromised files that are vital for the survival and proper functioning of all types of organizations, whether public or private.

According to Mesas, "the real challenge is to find a support that is capable of remaining unchanged for centuries in optimal conservation conditions? And that is where Archivator comes into the picture, a safe and reliable, long-lasting solution, which is based on high-resolution micrographic film as a physical support and on photosensitive polyester material."

With the aim of creating a product with these characteristics, the Archivator industrial consortium was established in mid-2009, which is made up of two Norwegian companies, one German, one Austrian and two Spanish companies (one of them Tedial). The consortium's activities are funded by the European Eureka Eurostars program, and has the participation of the Department of Computer Architecture of the University of Malaga as technical advisor in collaboration with Tedial. After years of intense work, Archivator has entered its final phase, and a prototype is already being completed that will be tested in external companies before its commercialization phase.

Tedial hopes to be able to open a new market line that will further enhance its image as a leading company worldwide in the broadcast sector (radio and television). In fact, the Spanish firm has already been recognized as one of the five companies in the world with the most future in the DAM (Digital Asset Management) market or digital resource management for radio and television by Gartner, the North American consulting firm with the most global prestige in the field of information technologies. Its products are implemented in more than 50 companies around the world and it is the leader in its sector in Spain and Latin America.

Nordif3

Last week, Tedial was awarded a contract to provide the Scandinavian consortium Nordif3 with a cloud solution, based on its own Media Amigo product, through which the five public television stations in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland will have a network content exchange platform. Also in 2012, the company based in the PTA of Malaga is digitizing the historical archive of Turkey's national television, TRT, where it is renewing its archiving system and workflows. In addition, the largest audiovisual company in Latin America, Televisa, has once again trusted Tedial technology to modernize its news archiving system.