Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images
- Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images
The Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images, in Swedish "Statens ljud- och bildarkiv", SLBA, was founded in 1979 (originally having the name "Arkivet för ljud och bild," ALB) with the aim to collect and preserve all film and recorded sound produced in Sweden, including radio and television programs. The archive is an independent institution under the ministry of education, research and culture (utbildnings - och kulturdepartementet). It is located in Stockholm and employs 65 people. The director general is Sven Allerstrand.
A national deposit law requires publishers to submit a copy of all new titles to the archive. The older collections are gradually built from donations and acquisitions, but suffer from the institution's youth. Other major sound and film archives in Sweden exist among private collectors and the national public broadcasting company Sveriges Radio.
In April 2008, the Swedish government asked the Royal Library to investigate and prepare for a merger between SLBA and the library by January 1, 2009.
Current on-going Migration Activities
SLBA are currently mass-digitizing parts of its collections, primarily focusing on public service material. Over a three-year period, an initial selection of 1.5 million hours of material will be digitized and made directly available to researchers.
Most of the digitization process is automated. In full production, 200 tapes per day, or 2,800 hours, are digitized by a staff averaging just five people. A number of relatively unconventional methods are being used, including the high-speed transfer of open-reel audiotapes, robotic automation of cassette-based audio and video transfer, and a suite of custom scripts that process the digitized files automatically.
The infrastructure includes a migration asset management system developed inhouse that handles such things as communication with production systems, logistics (of both original carriers and resultant files), and metadata input and transfer. Once the digitization process is completed, automatic functions create new carrier database records, insert metadata, direct the new archive and browsing files to their final mass storage locations, and link files to the MARC based database for direct access.
External links
* [http://www.slba.se/ Website]
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