Cube-Tec delivers the Archival Management System to preserve the Slovenian film heritage
In the period 2016–2020 the National Archives of the Republic of Slovenia (SFA - Slovenian Film Archive is also a part of it) have designed and implemented a modern electronic archiving system to protect the Slovenian film heritage in the digital domain.
For this Cube-Tec has delivered a client specific OAIS-compliant film Archival Management System enabling long-term preservation for the Slovenian film heritage. The user interfaces were designed in joint coordination with the project team of the project e-ARH.si: ESS 2016 - 2020 under the direction of Tatjana Hajtnik, Phd. The project e-ARH.si: ESS 2016 - 2020 was funded by the EU commission.
In the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia there is already digitized video and film as well as material already supplied digitally by producers, but there is also analogue film on Celluloid which will be first digitized with the spinner film scanner before it can be forwarded to CubeMAM.
DCDM is required as the format for legal deposits of cinematographic works. Cube-Tec also has delivered a DCDM Validator for checking these uncompressed image sequences. In CubeMAM all types of materials will be verified for completeness, then quality controlled (QC) and enriched with descriptive and technical metadata. This results in an Archival Information Package (AIP) ready for long-term preservation.
Of course proxy versions are also generated on the fly to serve as viewing copies for the user. Thanks to the good support of our local Slovenian partner RAP-Ing, project management and localisation to Slovenian language was running smoothly. The final user and administrator training took place in September 2020 and with the final security audit the new CubeMAM archiving management system was handed over to SFA at the end of 2020.
Archival film material is a demanding material for storage in analog, digitized and digital form. The system CubeMAM allows us to store, manage, and easily access digitized and digital archival material and connect to the existing information system. The e.ARH.si project took care of the storage of the next generations of film material."
Tatjana Hajtnik Phd, Head of e.ARH.si project
About:
The Archives of the Republic of Slovenia
The Archives of the Republic of Slovenia, which is the central and largest archival institution in the country, performs the tasks of the national archives. It is a body within the Ministry of Culture.
The Archives is responsible for the uniform provision of public archival services. As the national archive, it protects the public archival records of state authorities, bodies holding public authority and/or exercising public services provided by the state, the Bank of Slovenia, state and public funds, agencies, and other legal persons established by the state and whose activities, as a rule, cover the entire national territory. It is responsible for the preservation of private archival records and film archival material and maintains a summary register of public archival records in the country, a register of archival records in neighbouring countries and abroad that relate to Slovenia and Slovenians, and a register of public symbols, coats-of-arms, flags, seals, and rubber and other stamps at the state level.
Its responsibilities include acquiring, protecting, processing and ensuring the use of the national archival cultural heritage. The archival records held by the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia are of lasting importance to Slovenia, the Slovenian nation and individuals. Archival records are considered a cultural monument, as they are an invaluable source of information. They have been created over the course of almost a thousand years of operation of the state and local administration in the territory of Slovenia; today, archival records are mostly created as a result of activities of state authorities and other bodies governed by public law that are established by the state and operate throughout Slovenia.