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OFFAIR SYSTEM

OFFAIR SYSTEM. Glen Robson Richard Williams. Background. National Screen & Sound Archive of Wales: NSSAW recording TV & Radio broadcasts since 1991 Collection of recordings from 1982 Related to Wales and Welsh interests.

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OFFAIR SYSTEM

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  1. OFFAIR SYSTEM Glen Robson Richard Williams

  2. Background • National Screen & Sound Archive of Wales: • NSSAW recording TV & Radio broadcasts since 1991 • Collection of recordings from 1982 • Related to Wales and Welsh interests. • Examples are S4C programmes, Tiger Bay, Jonathan, Newyddion, Badell Aur etc

  3. The ‘old’ system • Equipment: • Bank of VHS Recorders • Efficiency: • Staff intensive • Quality of recordings – not good

  4. The ‘new’ system • Tender: • Nov 2006 out to tender • PVR – use of Personal Video Recorder • Equipment: • Box of Broadcasts, by CIS • Contains 6 Digital and 2 analog tuners • Imagen Client – allows user to select programmes • EPG data used to produce Atom feed data • Recording live data since Sept 2007 • Efficiency: • Automatic – though will require limited User intervention • Up to 32 Gbytes a day currently

  5. Ingesting • Virtua: • Atom feed used to produce MARC records • Atom feed is validated • Backlog from Sept 2007 • 32 records loaded so far • Vital: • METS records ( data from MARC) • MediaInfo also used to produce METS – provides technical metadata • Provides access to actual Offair Recording mpgs

  6. Catalogue Demonstration • Catalogue: • Search for “OFFAIRDIGV” • “The Queen” • How to request recording: • Bar Code slips • Example slips

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