The arrival of digital technology has revolutionised the audiovisual world by facilitating the integration of video and audio into a variety of applications, and enabling their dissemination at the global level.

The vast number of digital files produced, however, combined with the proliferation of distribution channels, poses the problem of managing these new digital libraries: How to ensure the accurate documentation of digitised works? How to ease searching within these records? How to streamline the tasks of long term preservation, managing and providing access to digital content?

This situation has made it essential to put powerful tools in the hands of archivists to help them in their work of identifying and documenting digitised content.

IPI©-Manager  is a highly effective solution designed to meet this need: Based on the IPI©-Editor developed by Memnon Archiving Services, this solution allows the cataloguer, after automated pre-segmenting, to isolate passages while listening to the content of sound files, and to describe each of these passages with precision. In addition, in order to facilitate the work of documentation, the IPI-Editor displays both audio content and the associated metadata on a single screen.

This results in significant time savings in performing the tasks of segmenting and/or merging audio files, describing their content, and preparing them for online access. Cataloguers can thus focus on their true added value: content analysis and processing.

Used by institutions such as the British Library (UK), Bournemouth University (UK), EIC (France), the multi-media library of the Cité de la Musique (France) …, IPI©-Manager is the ideal tool for archivists who need to index and document sound files.

We would be happy to answer any questions you might have about IPI©-Manager. If you would like to see the software demonstrated, please contact Memnon so that we can assess your needs together.