VGTRK begins to build and prepare a digital archive

The company VGTRK began to create an electronic archive, the press service said on January 15, 2013. IBS Platformix integrator company is defined by contractor in the project

Reality of plans

In the largest media holding in Russia, work is underway to create a unique data storage center, which will store all video materials for 20 years of operation of the company. The result of these works should be the ability to quickly access the desired frame with a volume of more than 500 thousand hours. videos.

Alexander Gladky, head of computing platforms and storage systems, noted: "This information system will describe storage units (plots), classify them and search for them, ensuring the distinction of access rights and solving all related issues."

You are planning to build tape storage. This will optimize the use of existing resources and provide effective protection of sensitive data, support the backup of materials and prevent unauthorized access to cartridges, the capacity of which has increased significantly. The library software allows you to define a tape maintenance cycle.

"What good is the digital archive of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company? It ensures the security of information, the ease of issuing the right number of copies for the entire system and, in general, the simplification of technological requests. How many users will request this or that material, so many will be able to access it (if, of course, there are rights to it). We help organize this process, achieving the continuity of the archive, "explained Igor Lipnitsky, an expert in the department of computing platforms and storage systems. - VGTRK-level company is not only a producer of content, but also its supplier for its internal divisions and external organizations. Creating a copy of the analog media leads to a loss of quality and negatively affects the original; there is no such problem in the "digit," and access can be arranged remotely, from anywhere, there would be a communication channel. "

Stages

The project is long-term. There were no such digital archives in Russia. The integrator considers two stages completed: the first year of system assembly, debugging of technical processes. The second is the expansion of the system, the beginning of digitization, which uses a manual description of materials, that is, metadata is added that is searched in the archive. Currently, the system has reached the productive level for digitization, and for the issuance of materials should reach this level as part of the third stage.

As an analogue, IBS Platformix specialists took the experience of creating the archive of the Norwegian television and radio company NRK. According to Alexander Gladky, the customer will receive something similar, but adjusted for the scale and need to create a distributed, fail-safe and disaster-tolerant system.