A Practical Approach in Digitizing Analogue Audio Assets

Abstract

Today, Broadcast companies are migrating from a
Tape-based workflow to that File-Based .This not only affects
growing number of channels and new ways of broadcasting, but
also it changes the way we store and retrieve our precious
contents. Such historical essences are transferred to digital only
once and used numerous of times, so the method we use for
transferring these materials is so important. Technical
parameters of digitizing from Capturing and scanning to Storage
media and formats are as important as non-technical concepts
like metadata and Cataloguing. In this paper, a practical method
of transferring Analog materials to digital formats and media is
presented. Suitable formats, backup, metadata and quality
control methods are introduced. A very best practice of digitizing
project at IRIB huge archive will be introduced as a practical
example.