»DUCAT« U ARHIVI TV SLOVENIJA
“DUCAT” (“DOZEN”) IN THE ARCHIVES OF TV SLOVENIA

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the report is to analyze the process of archiving in The Archives of Television Slovenia and to determine, whether The Archives of Television Slovenia (TV Archives) provides secure archiving, which allows access to the documents, usability and integrity, authenticity of the documents, their durability and re-usability. Author compares the process of the archiving with the common life through the prism of the anthropocentric view. TV Archives has catalogued TV broadcasts with the software tools ADAM since 2013. Software tools allows to the cataloguist to review the pictures. The content of TV broadcasts is sent to the editor’s servers of the users without the risk of the damages of the files. The broadcasts are sent directly to the programme list for the broadcasting of the programmes. The content of the programmes is safekeeping on the cassettes in the LTO (Linear Tape Open) library. All operations in the system are controlled and traceable and provide forensic trails. Access, reuse, integrity, authenticity of the documents are provided by the system of the cataloguing. The archiving is based on metadata which are mostly sent automatically from the redactions and the system of TV production. The system of the archiving is protected by the measures of the information security policy. The cassettes in LTO library are kept in optimal storage conditions (clean, cold and dry) and protected with flood and fire alarm. According to the instructions of European Union about the rights of the EU citizen to access the public documents is the access to the video documents limited only in the cases of the protection of the intellectual property rights. The review of the process of the archiving in TV Archives pointed that the archiving system is sufficient to the principles of availability, usability, integrity, authenticity, sustainability and reuse. The vision of The Archives of Television Slovenija is consistent with the vision of Slovenian public archives, which is published in the document “Strategy and implementation plan development of Slovenian electronic archives from 2016 to 2020.

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