Beeld en Geluid Viz One system

Case study

Beeld en Geluid
Viz One system

Beeld en Geluid selects Vizrt’s Viz One MAM system to host
the Dutch national TV and film archive.
Vizrt, a leading provider of production systems for the digital media
industry, has been chosen by Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en
Geluid, (The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision) commonly
known as Beeld en Geluid, to provide an extensive upgrade of its
media asset management platform, which is comprised of more
than one million hours of television, radio, music and film.

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Viz One MAM for the Dutch national TV and film
archive.
The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Dutch: Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid,
or short, Beeld en Geluid) recently decided to replace its extensive asset management IT platform
consisting of a number of tailor made systems with a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) Media Asset
Management (mam) system by issuing a EU Tender in June 2014. In November 2014 Vizrt, a
leading provider of production tools for the digital media industry, was awarded the contract as the
highest scoring amongst its competitors.

"The main challenge we had during the European tender was to find a mainstream vendor that
understands our demands and special needs of a Media Asset Management system at NISV. It was
clear through the answers and solution offered by Vizrt, that not only do they understand our needs
but that they could deliver a mainly off the shelf product" (Phillip Maher, Project Manager Beeld en
Geluid)

The solution consists of Viz One, Viz One Workflow Engine and a Web Portal (by xailabs.com)
destined to guarantee sustainable preservation of the Dutch audio-visual heritage and to make it
accessible for as many users as possible. Viz One will provide core services to search, view, select,
license and order digital media assets. The archive comprises more than one million hours of
television, radio, music, and film and is serving the eight Dutch public broadcasters as the long term
archive. All programing for the Dutch public broadcasters come in digitally every day and media
professionals as well as the general public will benefit from the new solution.

Viz One for content management
Viz One will be managing multi-tenancy ingest, browse, creation, transfer and archiving jobs in a
reliable way. Viz One will also serve archivists inside NISV with the tools needed to catalogue
content and to make it searchable by utilizing thesaurus terms coming from an external SKOS
compliant thesaurus provider. Viz One will serve as the long term storage for "contracts" being
negotiated between licensees and rights holders. Having both, assets and contracts indexed in a
powerful search engine will give an exact view on the rights situation of an individual asset within
the archive.

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With Viz One’s feature rich RESTful third-party API, Viz One can expose all information together
with video to eligible consumers, such as media professionals logged in through the Web Portal
implemented by Vizrt´s partner xailabs, a company in Berlin (having already delivered big portals for
Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone).

Viz One Workflow Engine
The Viz One workflow engine, with its capability to deposit business logic, will orchestrate tenant
specific ingest routes of various content providers. The "TaskUI" module will provide additional task
and monitoring features for all incoming license requests and serve as the backend for submitted
orders. It interfaces with a billing system to hand out transactional and media associated costs to
the front end (Web Portal).

Web Portal (by xailabs)
The Web Portal will bring a webshop-like shopping experience to media professionals and the
public. For rights-affected content, license requests must be issued, whereas requests can be on a
subclip level (with the help of the clip list composition feature of the web player). The search
experience for end users (media professionals and public) will be similar to the powerful search
features of Viz One Studio because of the direct interface with the Viz One third-party API, exposing
(amongst others) facets and suggestions.

The Web Portal brings a webshop shopping experience to media professionals and public.

“With Vizrt priming the deal, an ecosystem with carefully chosen products of top notch vendors and
Viz One at its core, we believe this to be the future foundation of the Dutch national heritage with
the ability to grow even further and to provide best-of-breed services to our clients.” (Jan Müller,
CEO Beeld en Geluid)

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About Beeld en Geluid
The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Dutch: Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid,
or short, Beeld en Geluid) is the cultural archive and a museum located in Hilversum. The Institute
for Sound and Vision collects, looks after, and provides access to over 70% of the Dutch audio-
visual heritage. In total, the collection of more than one million hours of television, radio, music and
film that began in 1898 and continues to grow daily makes Sound and Vision one of the largest
audiovisual archives in Europe.

The Beeld and Geluid team

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