Project summary

PrestoPRIME researched and developed practical solutions for the long term preservation of digital media objects, programmes and collections, and new ways to increase access to media archives.

Audiovisual collections in transition

Audiovisual content collections are undergoing a transformation from archives of analogue materials to very large stores of digital data. As time based digital media and their related metadata are edited, reused and reformatted in a continuously evolving environment, the concept of the unique original loses its meaning. We require dynamic processes that can preserve indefinitely not only the audiovisual signal but also its evolving associations, context and rights.

PrestoPRIME researched and developed practical solutions for the long term preservation of digital media objects, programmes and collections. It found ways to increase access by integrating media archives with European online digital libraries in a digital preservation framework. The result was a range of tools and services, delivered through a networked Competence Centre.

The preservation framework

The project delivered a preservation framework, complete with risk management and content quality and corruption control measures. The framework supports audiovisual signal migration and multivalent preservation methods using federated services for distributing and storing content.

PrestoPRIME created a metadata conversion and deployment toolkit, with a process for metadata vocabulary alignment, annotation and services for user generated content metadata. A rights management system and an audiovisual fingerprint registry make it possible to track and manage content at all stages of its lifecycle, in all contexts of use.

The project demonstrated and evaluated an integrated prototype of the preservation framework and software in the networked Competence Centre. The Competence Centre and the European Association for Audiovisual Archives were established to provide business models, registry and best practice services and training.

Project identity

Thematic priority: ICT (Information and Communication Technologies)
Instrument: Collaborative project (generic)
Project name: PrestoPRIME
Project number: FP7 231161
Duration: 42 months (January 2009 to June 2012)
Coordinator: Daniel Teruggi, Institut national de l'audiovisuel (Ina)
Funding: European Commission, Seventh Framework Programme

Funding record. PrestoPRIME was supported by the European Commission (opens in a new tab) through the Seventh Framework Programme for Research. The project was coordinated by Ina, the Institut national de l'audiovisuel (opens in a new tab). The CORDIS research information service (opens in a new tab) holds information about European research projects.

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