Indiana University safeguards its historical material and converts it to 2K and 4K

Memnon Archiving Services will be the company in charge of digitizing the 25.000 hours of material, including numerous unique and rare prints of historical films, and that will be included in the extensive video collection of the university institution.

Indiana University has chosen Memnon Archiving Services, a company owned by Sony, to carry out the digitization of the 25.000 hours of your movie collection. The program, which is part of the university's multimedia preservation initiative, will make the titles available to the faculty, their students and third parties. The material includes numerous unique and unusual prints of historical films, which will be made public for the first time.

Memnon will implement all equipment necessary to digitize these recordings and operate them on site, at Memnon's own facilities at Indiana University. This will ensure the security of the files., and that the digitization process meets the quality objectives and is as efficient as possible. Films of both 16 as of 35 mm and will be converted to 2K or 4K file formats.

“Although digitalization is the essential first step, “The IU technology organization and libraries will complete post-production work so that these treasures can be discovered and consulted by people around the world.”, explained Laurie Antolovic, CEO of MDPI, Associate Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Indiana University.

300.000 audio and video assets

Memnon Archiving Services has already helped the university digitize and archive its audio and video collection of almost 300.000 assets. A specialized center has been established in Bloomington (Indiana) to produce up to 12 terabytes of digital data per day.

The initiative was launched when the university realized that many of its audiovisual assets were at risk of degradation or were only available in formats that would quickly become obsolete.. In this first year of the project, Memnon and the IU have worked together to rescue more than 100.000 audio and voice recordings, including performances by prominent musicians who graduated from the Jacobs School of Music.