Cataloging involves systematically identifying, documenting, and organizing media assets to ensure seamless storage, retrieval, and long-term preservation.
CATALOGING
Asset Cataloging —the first step in your Comprehensive Archive Preservation Plan
Smart Media Cataloging & Preservation
This process includes creating detailed metadata for each asset and indexing them within a structured system, eventually integrating them into Digital Asset Management (DAM) platforms for ongoing visibility and control.
PRO-TEK Vault's comprehensive cataloging process significantly enhances searchability and optimizes asset accessibility.
BENEFITS OF caTALOGING
- Improves Discoverability: Well-structured metadata ensures that assets can be quickly and easily found in Digital Asset Management system searches.
- Enhances Organization and Productivity: A properly cataloged archive makes finding and retrieving relevant assets easier and reduces time spent searching for misplaced or mislabeled content.
- Optimizes Asset Monetization: Cataloged content tagged with relevant metadata supports efficient licensing and reuse.
- Future-Proofs Digital Assets: Properly cataloged digital content will include information about file format, generation, and age–ensuring that digital assets are regularly maintained, refreshed, and checked to ensure compatibility and access with current technology.
• Provide up to 10K resolution with simultaneous output of image and soundtrack to UHD/HD ProRes, DPX, or TIFF.
• Scan all formats—35mm, 16mm, Super 16mm, 28mm, 17.5mm, and 8mm films.
• Manage damaged and delicate film stock with stability and quality. Optional color correction delivers a pristine, color-graded scan from faded film.
• Offer post-scanning digital file cleaning to transparently remove digital artifacts.
- Comprehensive inventory management
- Customized metadata schemas created and applied as needed
- Elements identified with bar codes and easy-read labels for accurate tracking and monitoring
- Logging of unrecoverable images and client-approved de-accessioning of duplicates
- Film elements re-housed in archival sleeves, folders, and boxes
- White glove customer service
• Provide up to 10K resolution with simultaneous output of image and soundtrack to UHD/HD ProRes, DPX, or TIFF.
• Scan all formats—35mm, 16mm, Super 16mm, 28mm, 17.5mm, and 8mm films.
• Manage damaged and delicate film stock with stability and quality. Optional color correction delivers a pristine, color-graded scan from faded film.
• Offer post-scanning digital file cleaning to transparently remove digital artifacts.
First step in your Comprehensive Preservation Plan
Determining the best approach to organizing your media assets can be overwhelming, but PRO-TEK Vaults is here to help. Our media preservation experts handle every aspect of media archiving, organization, and storage, from conducting initial assessments and metadata tagging to long-term preservation and digitization.
And if you need archival storage, PRO-TEK offers solutions for film, video tape, digital files, photos, and other high value assets.
And if you need archival storage, PRO-TEK offers solutions for film, video tape, digital files, photos, and other high value assets.
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