Delegates including lic. Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, President of the United States of Mexico, and international attendees from all around Latin America and Europe visited this first institution in the Latin America world. The audience that joined the ceremony could already search and listen within the complete mediARC solution from NOA, which was delivered together with the local partner ARTEC. Even the Mexican President had the honour to ingest music material from its home town. 

Fonteca’s Team with Dra. Lidia Camacho

The installed systems of NOA cover the complete mediARC basic package consisting of the mediARC workflow solution, including numerous cataloguing GUI´s for metadata editing, workflow management and quality control, a Spanish version of an OPAC web solution, a Spanish Dactylo speech-to-text transcribing engine, as well as a complete disk to disk to tape storage system realized with local IT vendors, secured by dedicated file access controls following strict archival rules. All this, paired with the market leader for ingestion stations from the NOA Ingest Line, leads to a considerable quality improvement, which can be reached with the quality controlled ingest of NOA Record, CD Lector and Uniport to digitize the complete amount of analogue carriers for Latin American culture. 

The system installation from NOA has started in May 2008 after a consultation phase which got back already to 2006, and has been finished in time by the beginning of December. The local partner ARTEC cared about all necessary infrastructure tasks such as classical IT, cabling, audio wiring and local project management tasks. 

The Mexican Fonoteca has been assisted by Stefano S. Cavaglieri, CTO/CIO of Fonoteca Nazionale Svizzera, who managed to speed up the process of metadata consultation and set up of ingest workflow systems with a well structured coordination with the project team around Sebastian Gabler/Project manager NOA and Cosmin Frentiu/Technical project manager NOA. This first installation in Latin America – right after installations in other quite far away countries such as Vietnam and Sudan – shows again the strength of NOA in the international audio archive market. 

As Lidia Camacho says 

“In fact is urgent to transfer the sound contents to a digital platform because until now this is the only way that guarantees the preservation of the intangible sound patrimony. In order to do this, and after a wide research, the National Phonoteque chose NOA Audio Solutions because of the high quality of this solution. The installation of the NOA system in the National Phonoteque has big repercussions for being the first institution that uses high-end technology for the digital preservation in the region.” 

As C. Kummer CEO of NOA says 

“We are really glad, that finally the system could be set up within the agreed time lines, which were well communicated from the project management team around Sebastian Gabler. When it comes to complex structures such as a complete archive with all its IT implications it is also necessary to be able to rely on a strong local partner who can take over the tasks which need to be solved locally. This first installation in Latin America marks a new milestone for NOA expanding in the world wide business of archive technology.” 

Villa of Ottavio Paz in Coyoacán Villa's window Consulting Stations over MediARC WEB including ordering (depending on user rights) Two of total four NOA Record Ingest Station with EMT and Studer A810 replayers Twinned netapp storage with Veritas Backup Another Record Ingest Station