Memnon / BNF : Public Private Partnerships as a way to accelerate the preservation of the...

SCREENING THE FUTURE - LONDON

Public Private Partnerships as a way to accelerate the preservation

of the audiovisual heritage


Michel Merten

CEO Memnon Archiving Services

Christophe Gauthier

Head of the audiovisual Dpt at BNF


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


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 …)


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


Archives for allFunding … not for all at all


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


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


Private Public Partnership

An alternative solution


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


CASE STUDY

BNF / MEMNON / BELIEVE


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Michel Merten

CEO

[email protected]

T : 00 32 2 643 47 77

www.memnon.eu

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