Inamédia is the second phase Ina's digitisation plan: after preserving 200,000 hours of content (to date) Ina has developed a tool dedicated to the professional users of archives allowing them to access this treasure remotely, from a simple PC. It allows users to search the entire database, to screen the programmes, to make their own excerpts and to send this information to the Ina teams for quick processing. Furthermore, the 2,000,000 production fact-sheets are automatically translated into English to ensure easy access for all the non French-speaking users. More than 1,000 users have already made Inamédia a regular research tool. Inamédia has been developed in-house using specialist subcontractors as necessary (design / ergonomics / security…). The investment for this project, started in 1999 in parallel with the digitisation, is around 700,000 €.
With more than 200,000 hours of digitised contents Inamédia is at the moment the largest on-line database of digital archive material anywhere in the world. More than a web site, we like to consider Inamédia as a “web tool”. From anywhere in the world and with a computer connected to a high-speed Internet link, any researcher can dive into 50 years of archives in French or in English. Inamédia allows screening in a professional format, permitting users to make clips with the usual method of ‘Time-code in’ / ‘Time-code out’, to organise their work into different, user-designed ‘bins’ (saved as long as you need them) and finally to place an order. No need to go to Paris (sorry!), Inamédia provides maximum of time-saving efficiency. To us at Ina, preserving archives would be pointless if that was to keep them only for a “happy few”. It is Ina's mission to communicate and make this vast wealth of archive images as widely accessible as possible using the latest digital technology, yet preserving them as the nation's heritage for future generations.
Some quote from users:
Inamedia is a web site giving a second life to Historical documentaries…. Sarah Catel (Researcher)
We, at the TSR, are are envying you to have developed such a tool. We do hope to have some day the same level of service for our customers. Patricia Herold (Researcher)
Inamedia is just fantastic – Ina is fantastic – Thank you C. Stoebelen (Researcher)
Inamedia is a major revolution regarding the on-line access to data and contents (../..) Inamedia is the first archive source to be able to offer quick, simple and efficient access to: descriptive information
- on line screening (footage AND programmes)
- tools and options to process the searched and screened contents.
Inamedia, with its permanent development and increase in functionalities has given Ina a real competitive edge on an international basis. Valérie Massigon (Xyzebre) :
Inamedia is really one of the best online Archives. With the efficiency of its bi-lingual system, one can find everything both in French and in English. Beside that fact, Ina is absolutely reliable and has a pleasant service. Hansjörg Schump (Hoferichter and Jacob Film and TV production Company - Germany)
Inamedia is an extremely convenient tool in my archival research work.
The fact that I can go online, screen everything I am interested in,
save it in my basket, and the order it makes it invaluable. It saves
both time and money. It is also very user friendly. I can always find
easily what I am looking for. INA has so much remarkable material, and
it is very useful to have such an uncomplicated access to it. Tamara Rosenberg - Channel Thirteen/WNET in New York
Inamedia is a major improvement in French footage research. Quick and easy to handle, it allows immediate answers to our queries. As a very important part of INA archive has been digitised, we are able to screen the programs or segments we are looking for through Inamedia, as well as choose in and out timecodes for clips we need. Less expensive and much quicker, this database gives us a wider access to remarkable television and 1940s newsreel archives. Valérie Combard, Researcher
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