Created in 1989, the Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA) has themission to protect and promote Luxembourg’s audio, video and filmheritage, produce documents for the interest of the nation and initiatethe public use of such files in their cultural communication.

The Centre is organised around 3 main areas:1. Films2. Photography3. Audio

The CNA has a wide library of archives for public and professionaluse, with also 2 cinemas, a media-center and galleries.

With its new infrastructure and its media library fully digitized, the Centrenational de l’audiovisuel is now able to present to the public their richmedia content.

Its independent digitization platform gives Luxembourg the power toensure the eternal life of their historical material, giving a new point ofstudy for the next generations.

High security+

Continuity of information+

Flexibility+

Information redundancy+

Best technology for best price+

Maintenance 24/7+

Save time and money on future works+

“BCE made the Centrenational de l’audiovisuelenter a new dimension ofexchange with the public.”

Jean BackDirector(CNA)

“Working with BCE was reallya great experience. In addi-tion to its digitization services,the company has a full rangeof services covering all ourneeds in engineering, IT,video and audio productionand post production and evenin radio and TV transmis-sions.This wide expertise gave us acomfortable position for thefulfilment of this project.”

Fernand DevasAdministrative Coordination Manager(CNA)

“If you know the past, you cancontrol the future. BCE hasshown a great expertise in thedelivery of the perfect tool forour Centre. The public can now haveaccess to all our files, getthem in low resolution on DVDor even ask for high definitioncontents for their produc-tions.”

Jean BackDirector(CNA)

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“Digitizing the archives from the CNA was a com-plicated task, as they were in many different formats.

Some were so old that the post production team had to use all its expertise in the restoration of the films to fulfill the best quality on image.

The overall result is a gigantic digital library of video and audio files in the best quality.”

Christian GaritHead of Broadcast Operations(BCE)

Challenge: Time destroys the physical archives Solution: Digitization makes the archives timeproof

Digitization

Infrastructure installation (BCE)

Infrastructure installation (CNA)

Maintenance and continious backup

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BCE has a yearly digitizationcapacity of 50 000 hours of video and audio files.

With more than 600 000 files (about 120 000 hours) digitized, BCE has the largest digitization system available in Europe, giving us the

power to answer all your needs.

The CNA has the largest collection of audio, video and film archives in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

The challenge for BCE was to present the best way to keep those archives safe from negative time impact. Film strips can disintegrate, magnetic tapes lose their quality or the players may just disappear with the evolution of technology.

Over and above keeping the archives safe, the CNA also had the project to open their content to the public and to the professionals, in order to make a large library for film producers, TV channels or even home users wanting to have some more information about historical events.

Challenge:

> Protect the present & future archives from negative time impact

> Ensure full security of pictures, videos & sounds

> Create a public access to the library for consultation and use

> Offer to the CNA a complete control on the solution

13 500 hours were digitized for the CNA on its grand opening.

Since the year 2000, BCE has been innovating in digitization for the media market. The digitization of the CNA’s archives started in May 2003 and will be finished in December 2008.

To ensure the full security of the archives, the digitized files are stored in two robot libraries (one located at the CNA and the other as a security mirror at BCE). Each library has a storage capacity of 5 PetaBytes. Physical archives are stored in a fully secured room with a sophisticated fire detection network with argonite extin-guishing system.

The archives are stored in high quality and a low resolution file was created for consultation purpose or home users.

A complete digitization platform was created for encoding new content from the CNA, the remaining mass digitization was let to the BCE team.

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The StorageTek robot library can store up to 5 PetaBytes.

A secured room for physical archives.

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Solution:

> Digitization is timeproof

> Files are stored in two robot libraries located in highly secured rooms

> Low resolution videos are available from the CNA for consultation and a delivery con-sole gives the possibility to professionals to get a high quality copy

> The CNA operates a digitization platform and a database for an easy use of their resources

> Physical archives are stored in a secured room with a gaz extinction system and ambient control (temperature, humidity)

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