NETIA Teams Up With Memnon to Enhance the Ingest, Indexing, and Enrichment of Digital Media

Integration of Memnon Pre-Indexing and Cataloging Tool With NETIA CMS Automates Key Tasks and Simplifies Management of Digital Archives

CLARET, France - Feb. 3, 2011 - NETIA today announced the integration of Memnon's IPI-Manager and IPI-Editor with the NETIA Content Management System (CMS), designed to meet media companies' end-to-end media management and distribution needs.

These powerful tools allow documentalists and cataloguers, after automated pre-indexation and segmentation, to identify and isolate extracts while analyzing them, to describe each of these extracts precisely, and to import documented files into the heart of the distribution system.

Equipped with Memnon's solution for automating the indexing of digital media files, the NETIA CMS simplifies the task of preserving, managing, and accessing content within rapidly growing digital libraries.

"In managing the content distribution workflow, the NETIA CMS helps content owners to maximize the value of content more easily and efficiently across a broader range of target platforms," said Michel Merten, managing director at Memnon. "The integration of our technology at the front end of this workflow simplifies metadata enrichment and, in turn, adds value throughout subsequent media processing, repurposing, and distribution tasks."

As the NETIA CMS ingests content from a variety of sources, Memnon's IPI tool streamlines cataloging and indexing through functions including audio segmentation; automatic speech-to-text transcription; speaker identification, detection, and tracking; video scene detection; caption and logo detection; and fingerprinting. By automating these functions, the system reduces the time required to add audio, video, and related metadata to digital libraries and allows archivists to focus more attention on content analysis and processing. The metadata collected through segmentation and precise description of media enables fast, powerful searches of stored content.

The NETIA CMS also supports management and preparation of content for delivery, performing metadata extraction, transcoding, quality checking, image processing, and subtitle management. In managing the entire workflow, the CMS leverages the NETIA Workflow Engine to organize media management processes, harmonize exchanges between different applications, handle prioritization across the system, and automate content distribution processes. To streamline content delivery itself, the CMS provides tools for content packaging, metadata tagging, and rights management, with workflow-supervision guiding these processes. Configurable rules govern the delivery of content to specific service providers and numerous platforms ranging from VOD to set-top box, catch-up TV, and Internet news portals.

"Memnon's archiving tools have been adopted by renowned institutions including the British Library, Bournemouth University, the Ensemble intercontemporain, and Cité de la Musique in France, as well as SONUMA (RTBF) in Belgium. Now we're pleased to be extending their utility to the growing base of NETIA CMS users," said Yoann Poizeau, product director at NETIA. "While content is valuable in and of itself, content owners can only leverage their assets fully if they maintain well-indexed, easily searchable digital media libraries. The integration of Memnon technology with our CMS makes this easier than ever."

About Memnon Archiving Services

Memnon's mission is to be the trusted partner of organizations for the digital preservation and accessibility of audiovisual and cultural archives. Offices and studios in Belgium and Sweden make the company one of Europe's key players in the archiving field. Memnon offers archive owners a range of services for digitizing, restoring, preserving, and providing access to classic and current sound and video recordings in any format. Memnon's service is suitable for a wide range of customers, from cultural institutions, libraries, and universities to record labels and private collectors. The company provides a professional, high-quality, and cost-effective service that combines innovative techniques, in-depth experience of audiovisual processing and databases, professional research in archiving standards, and optimized production processes. More information is available at www.memnon.eu.

About NETIA

NETIA, a GlobeCast company, is a leading provider of software solutions that enable efficient management and delivery of content to today's full array of media platforms. Relied on by more than 10,000 users in 200 installations in more than 40 countries, NETIA solutions allow content producers and owners to manage content from ingest to delivery, targeting multiplatform outlets including the Internet, VOD, IPTV services, and mobile devices.

NETIA provides content management solutions to major radio and television brands and multimedia groups around the world, and recent wins have made the company a significant new player in the telco market, as well. Clients include BSkyB, RAI Italy, Radio Riyadh, France Telecom/Orange, RTM Malaysia, Mediacorp Singapore, Radio France, the Associated Press, France Televisions, and L'Équipe 24/24. NETIA has its headquarters in France, with offices in the United States, Paris, Rome, and Sydney, in addition to a global network of professional distribution partners.

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