Scaling

NOA's goal is to provide long-lasting Archive Asset Management systems to a variety of organizations, spanning from compact archives to large national archives and broadcasters.

The mediARC Archive Asset Mangement system excels at meeting the diverse needs of different entities, regardless of their size. It provides a solution that is accessible and robust, supporting a wide range of applications in the fields of media and workflow management.

With the flexibility to start on a modest scale, mediARC's comprehensive framework is intricately designed to be highly scalable and adaptable, ensuring its effectiveness in various contexts.

• Starting an archive from scratch.
  
• Mid-scale archive inventory projects.
  
• Consolidation of existing file-based repositories.
  
• Replacing or merging of legacy archive systems.
  
• Metadata building or enriching projects.
  
• Mid-scale, one-site in-house digitization.
  
• High-throughput industrial digitization projects.
  
• Supporting different production platforms.
  
• Feeding large e-commerce or OTT platforms.
  

• Seamlessly add ingest channels.
  
• Seamlessly add import watchfolders.
  
• Seamlessly add new archive or production sites.
  
• Seamlessly import regular production outputs.
  
• Seamlessly grow performance and throughput.
  
• Seamlessly integrate new production systems.
  
• Seamlessly connect e-commerce and publishing platforms.
  
• Seamlessly add temporaty and archive storage.
  
• Seamlessly upgrade mediARC licenses.

Many NOA archiving projects begin modestly, typically focusing on basic inventory or legacy carrier digitization, using a couple of ingestLINE workstations connected to an entry-level jobDB archive workflow management system.

However, within the first two years, approximately two-thirds of these projects upgrade to mediARC. This transition enables them to fully harness the digitized content and establish a professional archive capable of long-term data preservation and primed for substantial growth.

Of course, mediARC customers also experience growth. Archive collections expand, performance requirements become more critical, and production and publishing needs evolve rapidly. Fortunately, mediARC is a dynamic framework capable of adapting to customers of any size or needs.

• Archive online tier: disk or flash storage used as input/output landing zone.
  
• Archive nearline tier: one or multiple LTO tape library for long-term archiving.
  
• Archive offline tier: multiple deep archive copies in remote protected sites.
  
• GPP storage: the distributed storage space used for internal processing of files.
  
• Preview cache: the local cache storage keeping low-res preview media for streaming.

Most archives grow their collections over time and need to expand their vaults. The 21st century equivalent to rolling archive shelves are Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) systems that automatically move data between high-cost and low-cost storage tiers.

These IT systems are unavoidably subject to regular upgrades and capacity expansions, which is why robust Archive Asset Management systems, such as mediARC, are designed to manage this scenario seamlessly, ensuring smooth daily archive operations.

Single-Site / Central Archive:

Typically, archive repositories are positioned at the heart of the organization. Projects are initiated and progressed close to the central archive repository, celebrated for its structured organization and housing of critical content, facilitating swift results.

By utilizing mediARC, establishing a central archive database through standardized digitization, data migration, cataloging, and integration processes allows for the quick and effective professional management of all archive and preservation procedures.

Multi-Site / Remote Archives:

Typically, regional sites connect to the central mediARC archive remotely. This integration allows to manage locally generated inventories, metadata, and digitized files, each managed within distinct local processing and archiving domains, by the central database.

Outputs from regional production systems can be archived via dedicated agent software operating on-site, locally. These systems can easily retrieve archive content from the central mediARC archive through simple order workflows triggered, e.g., via well-documented API connectors.