Dear Friends and Partners,

Meet the Cube-Tec team at the JTS 2016 in Singapore, 7-9 March 2016

The Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) is an international symposium organized under the auspices of UNESCO affiliate the Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA) and its members’ Technical Committees. The Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) explores the technical issues affecting the long term survival and accessibility of audiovisual collections. JTS is an international symposium and brings together the world's foremost research and thinking regarding the preservation and accessibility of moving image and recorded sound collections.

On Tuesday, 8 March 2016 Cube-Tec's Technical Director Jörg Houpert, will give an aural presentation. Since the year 2000 Jörg is a frequent presenter at JTS symposium. This year he is presenting a lecture titled:

The media factory approach to restore audiovisual archive files to standard compliance and improved interoperability

While digital file-based AV production workflows have remedied most of their teething problems over the last decade, most audiovisual collections can be seen as an accumulation of flawed, profoundly inconsistent format variations happened over this premature transition to file-based AV production.

Most archivists have no idea about the extent of format variations preserved in their holdings as these cannot be detected with simple analysis tools. All they notice is randomly inconsistent behavior particular media files show in their test and playback systems.

In addition, there is the deceptive expectation that media files which seem to play fine at the time of preserving will also be accessible in the future.

In the last two years, the author and his software development team has worked in the European research project ‘DAVID – Digital AV Media Damage Prevention and Repair’ on methods to analyze, to understand and to develop repair strategies for these extremely diverse error constellations detected in AV collections.

The presentation will give an insight how AV format infringements can be automatically corrected on a media container and on a bit-stream level without re-encoding in a lossless procedure which is scalable to large-scale factory workflows.
- Jörg Houpert, Cube-Tec International