- It is easy to keep track on what has been digitised - where - by whom - on which machine. A must have for effective archive workflows. Bruno Burtre - Vectracom.
- JobDB is for me the "Google" of digitsation workflows. service provider - Belgium
- Though not being an archive, it helps us to create also first records for our regionals which are not connected to the internet at all. Xilonen Luna Ruiz, CDI mexico
"What can you do with..."
EXAMPLE 1: Validating quality in 60x realtime
The TAS (Traces Aided Spot) tool presents you with comprehensive quality parameters such as azimuth, correlation, peak, bandwidth, noise-floor, BLER (DAT), interpolations (DAT&CD), E32 error s (CD) and more in a two-dimensional graph, in line with the waveform together with other quality and workflow information. Algorithmic analysis can be produced by the Uniport WaveScanner or an ingestLINE™ product, and processing of the algorithmic metadata may be done on human level or per simple scripts defining the thresholds of QC. The time and effort required for this kind of quality assurance is independent of the program time, and the reduced footprint in quality assurance dramatically increases efficiency. And, yes, it is actually possible to verify a one hour program in 60 seconds.
EXAMPLE 2: Normalising file formats for archves
A variety of files (MP3, AAC, MP2) are collected in a watchfolder and need to be normalised towards one archive format (such as BWF) and one proxy (such as MP3). The collected files also need to be processed through a speech-to-text engine, which may result in a complete XML speech transcript, and the proxy files need to be normalized towards a dedicated sound level based upon pre-defined rules.
Involved processors in the jobDB workflow:
Uniport FolderScanner/ FileCollector/WaveScanner, MediaButler, Dactylo, ExportFiles
EXAMPLE 3: Setting priorities and planning ahead for customer questions
6000 files from Client A need to get digitized with high priority while a 2.000-file in-house backwards digitization project needs to be cued behind. All work files need to end up in thecorresponding folders, but all metadata about the work done needs to be maintained such that even after the files have been delivered to the client, complete information about the process is available. This allows customer service to respond to any client inquiries that come in after the job is done.
Involved processors in the jobDB workflow
jobDB ControlCenter, ingestLINE CDLector/NoaRecord/MediaLector, MediaButler
