Memnon promotes a facility to protect New Zealand audiovisual content
The Utaina project, powered by technology from I don't remember (Sony), ayudará a preservar digitalmente más de 400 mil grabaciones de sonido y vídeo de Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, la Biblioteca Nacional de Nueva Zelanda y los Archivos de Nueva Zelanda.
This ambitious project to protect video and audio recordings owned by New Zealand heritage protection organizations has an ambitious budget of 40 million dollars. An integral part of this initiative is the construction por parte de I don't remember de una audiovisual preservation facility last generation". Directed by Ben Whitney, New Zealand production and operations director, the Memnon team is working to preserve important historical archives what are at risk of deterioration despite being stored in climate-controlled vaults.
The project, which began mid-2022, had one of its first milestones in October: the ceremonial arrival of the first Group 2 funds from the National Library para su evaluation and digitization/migration. The project is expected to be completed in 2025 and includes the conservation of approximately 350,000 original audiovisual elements proporcionados por Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, 106.000 de la Biblioteca Nacional y 10.500 de los Archivos de Nueva Zelanda.
Heidi Shakespeare, CEO of I don't remember, expresses its satisfaction with the trust that New Zealand has placed in the company: “We are deeply honored that the nation has placed its trust in us and has chosen Memnon as a partner to help preserve the taonga (treasures) of the towns. “We are excited to have officially landed in New Zealand and look forward to working closely with the nation’s archival bodies to protect hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable cultural assets for the future.”
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