High five for high-res: Designing and specifying the digital high-res archive
Our day-to-day lives are becoming more and more digital, more and more high-resolution. What was state-of-the-art yesterday is no longer modern. In response to these challenges, WDR planned to introduce a digital high-res archive. To do so, it needed a requirements analysis and technical specifications, target workflows and concepts for the technical realization of the project.
During the first phase of the project, FLYING EYE created the internal and external specifications for the digital high-res archive using interviews, as well as documentation already developed by WDR. In the technical specifications, we analyzed the new system’s roles and actors, its functional and non-functional requirements, the metadata model, and the integration requirements for the system. Finally, we designed the overall topology of the new archive and determined the various hardware and software layers (e.g. format issues, HSM system, data lifecycle management, asset management).
With consideration for the framework conditions – timeline, budget, technical feasibility and compatibility – we defined a target system and compared market solutions regardless of manufacturer. Based on this preliminary work, WDR was able to create an efficient high-res archive.
Contact: Mike Christmann