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At sunrise, the statue of Memnon began sending out sounds in the Kingdom of Egypt…. Memnon in Europe today. Memnon Belgium (Brussels - head office) Memnon France (Paris) Memnon Germany (Koln) MemNor Norway (Stavanger)
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At sunrise, the statue of Memnon begansending out sounds in the Kingdom of Egypt… EVA/Minerva Jerusalem Conference
Memnon in Europe today • Memnon Belgium (Brussels - head office) • Memnon France (Paris) • Memnon Germany (Koln) • MemNor Norway (Stavanger) • A Private-Public Partnership with the NIRS to offer archiving services in Scandinavia • Memnon UK (London) • Memnon Africa • Memories EU Project (IST Call 6) • Memnon project coordinator of a 2,5M EUR project (develop automated tools to facilitate documentation, indexation, and search for AV archives, OAIS compliant) EVA/Minerva Jerusalem Conference
Ongoing projectsby order of start date • Readers’ Digest (WW) • Queen Elisabeth Music Competition of Belgium • British Library (UK) • Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (F) • European Parliament (Lux/F/B) • Bibliothèque nationale de France • Centre National de l’Audiovisuel (Lux) • World Council of churches (CH) • Projects in start-up phase with several Jewish institutions in Europe • … EVA/Minerva Jerusalem Conference
A rich past ... • Spin-off from Musica Numeris (°1989). Classical music • Leading recording studio for the industry (EMI, Warner, Barbara Hendricks, Jordi Savall, …) • Thousands recordings performed using high end technology (high resolution 24/96- 192kHz; 5+1; SACD, …) – we know what obsolescence means ! EVA/Minerva Jerusalem Conference
A rich past ... • Long experience of one to one transfers from tapes, 78rpm, … • Initial perception of the needs of specific digitisation services : second half of the 90’s • First large digitisation contracts initiated in 2001-2003. EVA/Minerva Jerusalem Conference
MEMNON • 2004 : Memnon is born from the experience acquired within Musica Numeris • Focus on providing global though modular services combining the craftsmanship experience of Musica Numeris with a factory approach for large quantities. EVA/Minerva Jerusalem Conference
A company at the service of the heritage • An overall or modular archiving solution for audio archives: • Digitization of archives in small or large volumes • On request audio restoration (Cedar), segmentation, documentation, … • Meta-data management and structuring for audiovisual databases (OAIS) • Shared mass storage services accessible at distance (secure back-up of local AV digital archives) • Publication and secure online management of AV content for use in intranet, extranet, or internet, for B 2 B or B 2 C use EVA/Minerva Jerusalem Conference
Memnon preservation services Users Transfers Digitisation Signal analysis & Quality Control Users access Documentation Local storage Identified users, public access, … Stockage local Belgium France, Norway, … EXTRANET / INTRANET / INTERNET Memnon SoundStore web Automated back-up Memnon SoundLibrary web Shared mass storage systems EVA/Minerva Jerusalem Conference
Lessons learned – how to servethe archive community • Need for strong project management • Detailed project preparation is key to success • Large projects require factory approach (EU Project Prestospace) including: • Being high level audiovisual experts is no longer sufficient • Model contract and specifications • Process Flow management (databases, traceability, …). • Multi-skills management • Total quality concept • Large and regular investments • In depth understanding of the long term preservation issues (interoperability, automated migration, open standards whenever possible (wave, mp3, …), ISO formats, …) is essential EVA/Minerva Jerusalem Conference
Need for Public Private Partnership • Service Provider should add value, over and above technical competence in digitisation: • Input on selection of carriers, access and storage and long term preservation solutions • Input to select target digitisation projects • Bring expertise in structuring metadata • Develop sponsoring / public subsidising documents • Use its own network to develop the fundraising EVA/Minerva Jerusalem Conference
Ongoing projects with Jewish heritage institutions in Europe • A rich resource • Funding is available from private and public institutions • Engagement of Israeli institutions and opinion leaders is essential EVA/Minerva Jerusalem Conference
Contacts Michel Merten / Stephen Weil Memnon Audio Archiving Services 27 rue du Belvédère 1050 Brussels Belgium www.memnon.be Tel. 00 32 2 643 47 77 Fax. 00 32 2 649 87 01 michel.merten@memnon.be stephen.weil@memnon.be EVA/Minerva Jerusalem Conference