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SCREENING THE FUTURE - LONDON
Public Private Partnerships as a way to accelerate the preservation
of the audiovisual heritage
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Michel Merten
CEO Memnon Archiving Services
Christophe Gauthier
Head of the audiovisual Dpt at BNF
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Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF)
Audiovisual collections : French legal deposit
1938 : °Phonothèque nationale
1994 : °Audiovisual department at the BNF
1 000 000 documents sound archives
250 000 documents video archives
Mass digitization started in 2004
Online platform Gallica / Europeana
Until now the digitization projects were funded by the French state
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Memnon Archiving Services
A leading service provider for the digitization, migration and semi-automated content enrichment of audiovisual archives :
• Large scale capacities in Brussels and Liege (Belgium) : +/- 30,000 hrs/month• “On site” digitization services
Involved in the digitization of over 900.000 hours of AV archives
In-house developed Digitization Asset Management platform, optimized workflows, and strong project management to meet highest preservation standards at competitive prices
Expertise in AV database and metadata management (content enrichment, Lined Open Data, …)
Proud to work with leading worldwide reknown institutions(National Library of Israël, BBC, INA, International Sport Organization …)
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Some large scale digitization projects by Memnon
Bibliothèque nationale de France - K7/CD/VIDEO300 000 carriers digitized
Paris
Danish Radio - DAT 350 000 hours migrated in 3 years
Copenhagen
Sveriges Radio Förvaltnings - ALL VIDEOS 100 000 hours of video archives
Stockholm
Radio Télévision Suisse - BETASP 60 000 video carriers to be digitized
Geneva
SONUMA (RTBF) – BETASP / DIGIBETA / DAT / VHS 35 000 hours of video and 30 000 hours audio archives
Liège / Brussels
United Nations 40 000 hours of audiovisual content digitized
Den Haag
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Archives for allFunding … not for all at all
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Paradoxical situation
EU recommandations (strategy for digitization and online accessibility- i2010 - High Level
Expert Group (HLEG); The New Renaissance report of the Comité des Sages, Presto’s…)•“Public private partnerships have an important role in helping achieve the European Commission’s”
Digital is everywhere
Demand for content is growing exponentially
On-line content is booming
Difficult economic situation
No public funding available
Archives are still at risk
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What we know …
• Safeguarding heritage for future generations
• Making digital audiovisual heritage available for education and the general public
• Digitization projects involving cultural heritage content have changed radically in size, scope, and volume in the last ten years.
• Large-scale migration of archives for preservation and access is expensive and needs investment
• Huge and specific collections are complex to digitize (time, cost …)
• Investments have to be made to enrich the existing metadata and to prepare the content to be diffused in an optimal way
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Private Public Partnership
An alternative solution
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Why a Private Public Partnership (PPP) ?
PPPs make projects affordable within annual authority budgets
PPPs maximise the use of private sector skills and resources
With PPPs, risks are allocated to the party best able to manage or
absorb each particular risk
PPPs guarantees budgetary certainty
PPPs force the public sector to focus on outputs and benefits from the
start
PPPs allow the injection of private sector capital
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CASE STUDY
BNF / MEMNON / BELIEVE
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BNF’s records collection
• Over 200,000 records (78 rpm and LP’s); 180,000 selected for
the PPP (45,000 LP’s; 135,000 78rpm)
• Heart of the audiovisual collection
• The digitization project focuses on the records before 1962
• 78rpm are in the public domain; 80% LP’s still under copyright
• Identification and validation of the records by music experts
• Unsufficient metadata (by record; not by track)
• No funding to digitize the collection and to give access to it
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Memnon’s added value
• Leading player for large scale digitization projects; successful experience to
manage world class projects
• Developing large capacity for records digitization – 5500 records/month
• High skilled team to supervise the project (over 15 additional recruitments)
• Project Management – planning and achieving all objectives
• Investment – workflows, softwares, technical infrastructure, operations, …
• Within the PPP, Memnon provides access to technology for sound
digitization and the scanning of the labels – initial 50,000 records to be
digitized for May 2014
• Memnon co-invests with Believe and BnF-P in the project
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Believe’s added value
• Leading independent digital distributor in Europe
• Delivering new releases to online stores worldwide
• Believe distributes over 1 million tracks from 15,000 labels
• Believe expertise drives releases across digital and social media in
order to optimize the visibility, awareness and sales of the content
• Believe will be in charge of the enrichment (descriptive metadata),
the promotion and the distribution / monetization of the digitized files
• Believe commits to a minimum revenue stream for the first 3 years
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The PPP business model
• The BnF has set up a special unit (BnF-Partenariats) to foster new relationships
with business and to connect with private funding.
• BnF-P advances a part of the funding (less than 25% of total costs)
• Memnon takes care of the digitization (records, labels, covers) according to the
BnF technical specs and is the main interface between BnF and Believe for files
exchanges.
• Believe enriches the metadata and diffuses / sells the content
• BnF-P grants Believe rights to monetize the content for 10 years; the net
revenues are reinvested in the project
• Profit are shared between the partners
• After 10 years, all the files are in the public domain
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Access to the digitized content
Within the BnF • Free access to users on AV stations and Gallica
Within libraries and BnF networked institutions• To be defined based on existing agreements
On the Web• Free extracts on Gallica ;• Free access services as Deezer, Daily Motion in France and abroad
• Download services (iTunes, Amazon, ..)
After 10 years exclusivity period : free access on Gallica
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BnF’s benefits : A new way to think a digitization project
• A new way to think a digitization project
• Enable the digitization of the collection while minimizing inital investment (25% in
this project)
• Digital preservation of one of the largest sound collection in the world
• BNF unlocks the French sound heritage
• Allows the access to most the collection in less than 10 years >< at current pace
• 700 000 tracks + metadata available for researchers and the public
• Commercial objectives support other digitization projects within BNF
• BNF offers larger visibility for works with a smaller target audience, and therefore
less traditional exposure
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Memnon’s benefits
• A new business relationship using its expertise and large scale
capacity to co-finance a project and makes it possible
• PPP contract runs for years, steady income flows
• Memnon is an active partner in the project >< Tenders
• Memnon benefits from coordinated decision between the partners
• Powerful incentives to perform (flagship in Europe)
• Sharing our expertise on the project to other institutions in the future
• High return on Memnon’s branding
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Michel Merten
CEO
michel.merten@memnon.eu
T : 00 32 2 643 47 77
www.memnon.eu