Mexico. The National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples (CDI) acquired two audiovisual media digitization systems for its Mediateca project, which seeks to preserve all the heritage of Mexico's indigenous peoples in a national archive.
This project, in charge of NOA Audio Solutions, will have a mobile and ingest system that will travel throughout Mexico capturing and converting audio sources into WAV and MP3 files; that will later be transferred to a second system that will be installed at the headquarters of the Commission where the metadata will be verified and extracted and then stored and integrated into the entity's file.
The director of archives at the CDI, Xilonen Luna Ruiz, assures that "this transit system allows us to digitize formats in indigenous communities characterized by being remote and distant places that would otherwise be impossible to obtain", also the director indicates that in addition to being able to digitize the sound files, "we are safeguarding the heritage of indigenous peoples that is in danger of extinction".
This mobile project includes a NOA Record ingestion system, a jobDB Control Center, a MediaButler tool to produce different formats on the fly, a NOA control console and a DBScripter script interpreter, all of which can be easily integrated with the existing Aleph CDI metadata databases and the DVS SpycerBox. NOA has also provided the CDI with a professional Studer A810 tape recorder to support the project.
On the other hand, the system integrator Artec IT Solutions that has worked with NOA and the CDI to create the transit system, adds through its director, Jaime Tovar that "the CDI now has a central repository of high-resolution file on SAN-based storage with two LTO reservation systems, that will allow the CDI to store not only the Mediateca artifacts, but also other assets."
