Sony and Memnon Archiving Services will collaborate in digital preservation

Memnon Archiving Services, one of the main suppliers of digital preservation, is responsible for digitizing, restoring and preserving more than two million hours of audiovisual archives for numerous chains and cultural institutions around the world.

Sony has announced in NAB 2015 its collaboration with Memnon Archiving Services, one of the main suppliers of digital preservation, responsible for digitizing, restoring and preserving more than two million hours of audiovisual archives for numerous chains and cultural institutions around the world.

Media LifeCle Services of Sony and Memnon will jointly offer their technology, experience and domain in the industrial workflow to customers, based on their combined experience when carrying out large -scale digital preservation projects with audio, video and filming content.

Memnon has clients such as the Danish Dr, The British Library, the National Library of France and the Indiana University System. For its part, Sony digits and distributes more than 150 million files for organizations such as BBC World or Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Michel Merten, Executive Director of Memnon Archiving Services, argues that “collaboration will combine our experience in digital management and preservation of large volumes of confidential content of any kind (including audio, video and filming) with the great experience and expert knowledge of Sony in audiovisual and transmission technologies. Our global capacity of delivery of projects will assist customers as they embark on the indispensable task to preserve your most valuable asset: the content. ”

The need for organizations to preserve the contents in a digital and large -scale form has been accelerated due to the continuous physical deterioration of the content carriers, as well as the constant changes in the interoperability and technology of the supports. The small digital storage costs and the development of long -term stable digital storage formats, such as the Optical Disc Archive of Sony, have made many organizations propose large -scale digitalization projects. Similarly, the greatest use of assets and new marketing opportunities have improved the business situation of many clients, making this investment a priority.

"Our research suggests that only 21 % of the chains have completed the digitalization process of tape libraries and that standard organizations that have not digitized the content, will store more than 100. 000 old tapes in situ," says Baku Morikuni, head of Media Lifecle Service of Sony. "As a consequence, many content owners have assets that are devaluing and, at the same time, have increased opportunities to reuse and profitable digital content, once accessible."

Sony presented Media Lifecle Services in August 2014 to help content owners protect and maximize the value of old content assets. Sony's managed service provides a single point of contact that helps customers not only preserve and make the most of the commercial value of the contents immediately, but also to continue developing assets for the future.

"There is no doubt that now is the time to deal with this challenge; however, all good digital preservation projects must have a demonstrated technological and operational experience. We believe that large -scale digitalization is a unique discipline that requires industrial processes and methodologies to achieve great efficacy and coherent quality. We are delighted that collaboration with Memnon transfer that experience to even more customers," concludes Baku Morikuni.