NEW CHALLENGES FOR AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES

And a brief a presentation of Ina

Jean Carrive Research Department

French National Institute of Audiovisual jcarrive@ina.fr

Ina French National Institute of Audiovisual

A public institution for preservation, access, research, production, consulting and training in the audiovisual domain

Hybrid status

Public institution governed by private rules

General interest and Commercial missions

History

1974: Ina is founded

1992: legal deposit of TV & Radio

1999: large scale preservation plan

2004: Inamediapro (online sales)

2006: Ina.fr (public web site)

2009: Legal deposit of Internet

2012: 606 175 hours of collection at risk digitised

2017: 100% of French audiovisual memory saved

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Radio and television: two major collections Commercial use / Legal Deposit

Archives of public TV and radio

Since the beginning of TV and Radio

70 years of radio, 60 years of TV

Ina holds the Production rights

Commercial use

All types of media

A large part in danger

Cinema newsreels archives

« Les Actualités Françaises »

Management of private archives French Tennis Federation

Opéra de Paris

Comédie Française

AFP

Etc.

Legal deposit of TV and Radio

102 TV Channels

20 Radio stations

A collection of 280 000 commercials

+ 1 000 000 hours per year

Law of June 1992

Scientific and academic use

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Inamediapro

Remote access to Ina’s sound and images for professionals

515 452 hours of video

494 626 hours of radio

~5 000 000 documentary notes

~300 thematic corpora

Online search and selection of excerpts

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Ina.fr

30 064 hours of video

8 339 hours of audio

~2.5 million of unique visitors per month

Web documentaries

Berlin 1989, …

Interactive sagas

Memoirs of miners, …

Interviews

Danse, history, music…

CDs, DVDs

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Legal Deposit of Internet

Law of August 1st 2006, implementing decree of December 19th 2011

« .fr » domain, people or organisations domiciled in France

Responsabilities shared by two institutions : Ina and Bnf

Ina in charge of

Web sites of audiovisual media and services

Web TVs and Web radios

Web sites of television and radio program guides

8 711 sites captured

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11.6 billion URLs 1.26 Peta bytes of Data

Ina EXPERT

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Higher education

Vocational training

Research

Consulting

Events and publishing

Research Department Two main activities

Groupe de recherches audiovisuelles (Audiovisual Research Group)

R&D

Archiving, Preservation, Indexing, Documentation, Publication, Visualisation, Data mining

Groupe de recherches musicales (Musical Research Group)

Production of « acousmatic » music (concerts, radio programs, composition)

Research (GRM Tools, Acousmographe)

Transmission (Digitizing, publishing, education)

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Acousmographe GRM Tools

B2B

An opening world

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B2…

LOD

Assesment & consulting Public studies

From physical material to transmedia

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Physical material

Digital document

Digital collection

Disc Digitization

Super resolution

Speech analysis

Visual discovery

Transmedia analysis

Detection of repetitions

Preservation of complex objects

Disambiguation of person names

Multimedia object

Transmedia

Optical digitization of audio disks Jean-Hugues Chenot, Louis Laborelli, Jean-Etienne Noiré

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Damaged disks Prototype

Result

Operating schema

Ina owns 276 000 audio disks

Super-resolution (from SD to HD) Jean-Hugues Chenot, Louis Laborelli

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Speech Analysis Félicien Vallet

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Speech transcription (speech to text) Là bas le public sou - tien-dra lar-ge-ment les All Blacks

Speaker analysis (speaker diarization)

Sp_1 Sp_1 Sp_1 Sp_2 Sp_2 Sp_3

Report Report Report News program

Title Keywords Summary

Title Keywords Summary

Title Keywords Summary

Title Keywords Summary

Documentary notes of reports

<tc_in ; tc_out> ???

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bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla

Anchor Anchor Anchor

Visual discovery of small objects Olivier Buisson, Pierre Letessier, Nicolas Hervé

Demo : visual clustering of 110 000 images taken from the web

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Detection of repetitions Jean-Hugues Chenot, Gilles Daigneault, Paul Tomi

Today, database contains repetitions for

12 TV channels

Almost 4 years

~400 000 hours of TV

Different applications

Detections of emissions

Analysis of programs

Analysis of regional specific progams on a national channel

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Fingerprint database

Channel 3

…

time

Channel 1

Channel 2

Preservation of complex objects Laurent Vinet

A project in the field of electro-acoustic music

Objectives

Archiving and preservation of musical works

Re-exploitation of audio material

Study of creation process

Keep trace of all modifications of the audio material

« Meta » software environment

Exchange information between muscial softwares (Audio effects, MIDI, etc.)

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Disambiguation of person names Patrick Courounet, Steffen Lalande, Abdelkrim Beloued

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Jacques Martin Occupation : TV producer

singer

presenter

Nationality : France

BirthDate: 1933 DeathDate: 2007

Jacques Martin Occupation : Bicycle racer

BirthDate : 1952

DeathDate : 2004

Jacques Martin Occupation : Politician

BirthDate : 1933

DeathDate : 2005

Jacques Martin Occupation : Cartoonist

Nationality : France

BirthDate : 1921

DeathDate : 2010

Jacques Martin Occupation: Lawyer

Nationality : France

Disambiguation of person names Patrick Courounet, Steffen Lalande, Abdelkrim Beloued

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Jacques Martin Occupation : TV producer

singer

presenter

Nationality : France

BirthDate: 1933 DeathDate: 2007

Jacques Martin Occupation : Bicycle racer

BirthDate : 1952

DeathDate : 2004

Jacques Martin Occupation : Politician

BirthDate : 1933

DeathDate : 2005

Jacques Martin Occupation : Cartoonist

Nationality : France

BirthDate : 1921

DeathDate : 2010

Jacques Martin Occupation: Lawyer

Nationality : France

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Transmedia analysis Marie-Luce Viaud, Agnès Saulnier, Nicolas Hervé

Analysis of information from press agencies, television, radio, newspapers, Internet, Twitter…

Who produces information? Who is at its source? How does information spread accross the media?

Special focus on the role of image

Use of automatic analysis of media (speech 2 text, image analysis)

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« Immigration » during 2012 elections

Image of the week

Conclusion

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Big Data?