04/19/23 Rasa Miskinyte, Jonas Korys, Sigitas Baltutis

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LITHUANIAN NATIONAL RADIO & TELEVISION

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Introduction

• Short story of archives and people behind;

• The Vision;

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TV Archives • Deposit

Film deposit (16 mm, 35mm) 3.000 hours

Deposit of Film Archives

docs

animation

features films

performing arts

music films

news reels

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TV Archives

• DepositVideo archives Beta cam SP format 27.000 units: 5.000 units are described/catalogued;

15.000 units are considered as to be described/catalogued; 7.000 units are considered as rushes/working material, some of them could catalogued.

6.940 units accommodate the production where the rights belongs to LRT8.200 units accommodate the production which was made in Lithuania.

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TV Archives

• Video Deposit

Deposit of Video

docs, educational,thematical

informational

rushes

music, enertainment

TV plays, featuresliterature prog.

variuos

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LR – Lithuanian Radio

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Mission

Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) collects and announces information about Lithuania and the world, introduces the variety of European and world culture and basics of modern civilization to the Lithuanian public, strengthens independence and democracy of the Republic of Lithuania, creates, cherishes and preserves values of national culture, develops tolerance and humanism, cooperation, intellection and language culture, enhances morality and public spirit;

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History• 1926 First Lithuanian Radio broadcasts take start in Kaunas• 1940 Kaunas and Vilnius Radio stations are occupied by the Soviet army. State Radiophon is reorganized to Radiophication and Radiophony (RR) committee (first occupation).• 1948 Sound recording department is established, tape recording archives are formed

• 1953 The (RR) begins sound recording production

• 1957 First Lithuanian Television broadcast

• 1990 The status of the Lithuanian Radio and Television is changed into Lithuanian Radio and Television

• 1991 Armed Soviet paratroopers take over the Lithuanian Radio and Television and the Television Tower in Vilnius (second occupation)

• 1994 Starts archiving live broadcasting into MC

• 1995 Concerts are recorded into DAT

• 1998 Lithuanian Radio Channel 1 is broadcasting with STUDER system

• 2004 Starts archiving complete Lithuanian Radio programmes

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Time table of Radio Production Formats

• 1948 – 2004 Tape

• 1994 – 2004 MC

• 1995 – 2004 DAT

• 1999 – 2004 HDD (STUDER), CD-R

• 2005 – File (DAW)

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What do Lithuanian Radio is archiving?

1948 - 1991 music and radio theatre

1991 - 2004 music, radio theatre and other authors’ programmes,a part of live broadcasts

2004 - 100% of radio production:

• News

• Live broadcasts

• All authors’ programmes

• Radio theatre

• Music

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Lithuanian Radio Sound Archives

• Tape:approx 175,000• CD: 6,000 • CD-R2,500 • DAT 2,150 • MC 800 • LP 5,000 (it is not intended to digitize for the time being)

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Problems

• Archive storages

• Physical obsolescence of formats and decrease in reliability

• Risk during replay

• Decrease of content quality

• Risk of heritage loss for the future generations

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Costs

• Migration

• System engineering and administration

• Storage

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Goals

• To be in time while preserving the content!

• To establish digital radio archive

• To achieve quality and durability of recordings

• To create conditions for the effective and immediate use of the achives in the Intranet of the Lithuanian Radio (LR) ( for both Radio and TV needs)

• To create conditions allowing cultural and training institutions to use the LR sound archives for the educational aims.

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Solution

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Digitization

• Have we to digitize everything?

• Value expertise

• Priorities

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Great Concern is analogue

2%1%2%

95%

Tapes

DAT

CD-R

MC

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Logical formats & resolution• Broadcast Wave Format BWF (EBU, AES)

• Mp3

Resolution

for storage:24 bit/96 kHz for archives of special value end music (5-10%)16 bit/48 kHz all recorded production (authors’ programmes)Mp L2 (256 kbps) all the live broadcasts

for preview:Mp3 (96 kbps) all archives

for broadcast:Mp L2 (256 kbps) all archives

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Digitization equipmentThe Most Important Task is The Right Equipment!

Tape machine A/D converter DAW

network

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General schem

PC( Analog to Digital) video converter

PC( Analog to Digital) audio converter

Storage (Disk array, Tape library)

Access, Task, WWW, Data base server

User User User Manager Manager ManagerUser

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Manager of radio broadcasts

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Music

News08:00-08:10

Music

Live broadcast11:00-03:10

Weather

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Topicalmaterial

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Storage (Disk array)

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