Archiving Training for Thai Broadcasters
13-12-2004 (New Delhi)
Hands-on training on how to
properly convert analogue
sound recordings to digital
© K. Lippe / UNESCO
Thailand was the second lap in a series of nine workshops labelled “Improving Radio Programme Production through the Digitalization of Radio Archives” in Central Asia, South-East Asia and the Pacific. Funding comes from UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC).
More than 50 managers, archivists and engineers from various electronic media organizations attended this course in Bangkok, that was organized from 18 to 26 November by the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD). The workshop clearly showed the big interest of broadcasters in this topic recognizing the urgency of developing their sound and video archives.
However, archives need the lasting support of the station's management. Therefore the two trainers, Karl Lippe, AIBD Engineering Consultant and Albrecht Haefner, Senior Archive Manager and former IASA General Secretary, started the workshop by addressing broadcast managers from various broadcasting institutions about today's perils for the media archive but also outlined the benefits that broadcasters will have from well-organized archives. The keyword was "obsolescence", which means that all traditional archives are not only endangered by deteriorating media, but also by the fast changes of technology, which rendered many old video and sound carriers obsolete and unplayable and is also endangering those, which are still in use.
The Public Relations Department of Thailand, which hosted this workshop, holds a rich film, photo, video and sound archive. But also Radio Thailand, Television of Thailand, the National News Bureau, the National Archive, the Royal Archive and PRD Regional Offices all over the country keep large numbers of important audio and video documents. This diverse structure and the countrywide distribution of the documents will pose a special challenge when it comes to the implementation of modern media archiving concepts in Thailand.
The trainers outlined the structure of modern archives as complex and multidisciplinary systems. They introduced the participants to the state of the art of conversion, storage and cataloguing. Due to Thailand's diverse broadcast archive structure the development of a modern and uniform media catalogue system will be one of the most important and challenging tasks for the development of the Thai media archives. Only if audio and video documents can easily and quickly be found and retrieved from the archive they can be used to enrich and enhance the radio and TV programmes. Therefore the trainers dedicated one full day to the development of metadata systems for Thailand's audio and video archives. They demonstrated practical approaches to develop an appropriate metadata scheme.
The trainers also paid special attention to the conversion of analogue sound recordings to digital formats. Karl Lippe took the participants into Radio Thailand's conversion studio and showed them rules and tricks to achieve high quality digital copies of the original recordings.
The participants were very interested in all subjects offered and even after the official closing of the workshop the archive staff from the major media organizations continued to discuss with the consultants questions related to digital optical storage media and selection policies for the storage and preservation of audio and video documents.
However, archives need the lasting support of the station's management. Therefore the two trainers, Karl Lippe, AIBD Engineering Consultant and Albrecht Haefner, Senior Archive Manager and former IASA General Secretary, started the workshop by addressing broadcast managers from various broadcasting institutions about today's perils for the media archive but also outlined the benefits that broadcasters will have from well-organized archives. The keyword was "obsolescence", which means that all traditional archives are not only endangered by deteriorating media, but also by the fast changes of technology, which rendered many old video and sound carriers obsolete and unplayable and is also endangering those, which are still in use.
The Public Relations Department of Thailand, which hosted this workshop, holds a rich film, photo, video and sound archive. But also Radio Thailand, Television of Thailand, the National News Bureau, the National Archive, the Royal Archive and PRD Regional Offices all over the country keep large numbers of important audio and video documents. This diverse structure and the countrywide distribution of the documents will pose a special challenge when it comes to the implementation of modern media archiving concepts in Thailand.
The trainers outlined the structure of modern archives as complex and multidisciplinary systems. They introduced the participants to the state of the art of conversion, storage and cataloguing. Due to Thailand's diverse broadcast archive structure the development of a modern and uniform media catalogue system will be one of the most important and challenging tasks for the development of the Thai media archives. Only if audio and video documents can easily and quickly be found and retrieved from the archive they can be used to enrich and enhance the radio and TV programmes. Therefore the trainers dedicated one full day to the development of metadata systems for Thailand's audio and video archives. They demonstrated practical approaches to develop an appropriate metadata scheme.
The trainers also paid special attention to the conversion of analogue sound recordings to digital formats. Karl Lippe took the participants into Radio Thailand's conversion studio and showed them rules and tricks to achieve high quality digital copies of the original recordings.
The participants were very interested in all subjects offered and even after the official closing of the workshop the archive staff from the major media organizations continued to discuss with the consultants questions related to digital optical storage media and selection policies for the storage and preservation of audio and video documents.
About 50 participants from various broadcasting institutions in Thailand attended the workshop
© K. Lippe / UNESCO
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