i202 Fall 2010 School of Information, UC Berkeley

London’s Imperial War Museum (IWM) is renovating its technology infrastructure to take advantage of the benefits of digital storage. 

To do that, the organization is relying on a device that is able to migrate microfilms to digital video, encoding the digital asset in archive quality JPEG2000 and in MPEG-2 for broadcast. The interesting part is that migration automatically generates metadata on the data parsed. Operators can quickly and easily jump directly to any migration error - and make an instant determination whether further is required. A complete set of migration metadata is available as an XML file that can be easily transformed to a migration database or to a document. Some examples of the metadata elements generated here are black level, input loss level, audio threshold, etc.

The device is also simple enough that it can be run by non-technical staff. At the War Museum, the system is operated about five hours a day by collection assistants who are doing other jobs at the same time.

Source: http://www.governmentvideo.com/article/99834