Quadriga wurde 1998 in enger Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT) und den deutschen öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten entwickelt. Quadriga ist ein eingetragenes Warenzeichen des IRT und wird exklusiv durch das Bremer Unternehmen Cube-Tec International GmbH vermarktet. Das Akronym, abgeleitet aus „QUality from Analogue to Digital RIGorously Analysed“ weist auf die hierbei praktizierte Qualitätskontrolle beim Digitalisierungsvorgang hin.
Quadriga wird seit 1998 weltweit bei Rundfunkanstalten, Staatsarchiven und Musikkonzernen eingesetzt.
QUADRIGA•Video is a migration workstation designed for the quality-controlled transfer of video tapes into archive files on a large-scale. For best efficiency QUADRIGA•Video supports simultaneous, parallel capturing from video playback machines (VTRs) in any combination.
QUADRIGA•Film provides a factory approach for high quality scanning of large film collections, especially homogeneous collections like 16mm broadcast news. Scanning in faster than real-time is supported. QUADRIGA•Film can remote control multiple film scanners to maximize operator efficiency.
Special resolution and colour test targets are used to calibrate the film scanner in an automated process. A HDR camera delivers extremely low-noise high dynamic preservation master files. Image stabilized proxy files are generated on the fly from the image area only, or with perforation full edge-to-edge.
QUADRIGA•Audio utilizes sophisticated technology, providing real-time monitoring and logging of audio streams, in order to automatically generate technical parameters of archival significance. Thus, in addition to capturing the audio data, QUADRIGA•Audio provides collateral metadata information regarding the original source medium, the capturing signal chain, the audio content and the quality of the recording, among others, offering many valuable assets to the archivist.
QUADRIGA•Audio is open to any Content Management System and can easily be integrated into existing network and database structures.