1. OFFAIR SYSTEM Glen Robson Richard Williams

2. Background National Screen & Sound Archive of Wales: National Screen & Sound Archive of Wales: – NSSAW recording TV & Radio broadcasts since 1991 – Collection of recordings from 1982 – Related to Wales and Welsh interests. – Examples are S4C programmes, Tiger Bay, Jonathan, Newyddion, Badell Aur etc

3. The ‘old’ system Equipment: Equipment: –Bank of VHS Recorders Efficiency: Efficiency: –Staff intensive –Quality of recordings – not good

4. The ‘new’ system Tender: Tender: –Nov 2006 out to tender –PVR – use of Personal Video Recorder Equipment: Equipment: –Box of Broadcasts, by CIS –Contains 6 Digital and 2 analog tuners –Imagen Client – allows user to select programmes –EPG data used to produce Atom feed data –Recording live data since Sept 2007 Efficiency: Efficiency: –Automatic – though will require limited User intervention –Up to 32 Gbytes a day currently

5. Ingesting Virtua: Virtua: –Atom feed used to produce MARC records –Atom feed is validated –Backlog from Sept 2007 –32 records loaded so far Vital: Vital: –METS records ( data from MARC) –MediaInfo also used to produce METS – provides technical metadata –Provides access to actual Offair Recording mpgs

6. Catalogue Demonstration Catalogue: Catalogue: –Search for “OFFAIRDIGV” –“The Queen” How to request recording: How to request recording: –Bar Code slips –Example slips