Imagen 2 - Digital Asset Management System  
Imagen2 Digital Asset Management Software ImagenWeb - Web interface to the Imagen Digital Asset Management system T-Gate - DVB-T-IP Gateway S-Gate - DVBS-IP Gateway X-Gate - Enterprise IP TV Polsafe - Police Specific Digital Asset Management RECLAIM BoB - Box of broadcasts - Off-air recording system and Compliance recording systems CANVAS - Closed Area Network Video and Audio System - Digital Signage and Scheduler
 
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CIS develops and implement large image and video archive management systems as well as TV and radio streaming solutions. Our products are in use by the BBC, ITN, Ministry of Defence Imperial War Museum and British Pathe, amongst others, managing image archives of up to 12 million images and video archives of over 3000 hours. More>
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British Library News Archive  
A highly prestigious contract to supply the British Library with an advanced digital archive management system, known as Box of Broadcasts or simply ‘BoB', has been secured by Cambridge Imaging Systems.

The British Library contains over 150 million items including a moving image collection of around 40,000 titles. As part of the Library's extensive plans to improve digital access, the Library has brought in Cambridge Imaging Systems to provide the digital video management technology required to host selected digital video files from the archives and to record, store, describe, locate and deliver access within the Library to television and radio news programmes...More>

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British Pathe - Now serving high resolution MPEG  
After becoming an independent company again, British Pathe asked CIS to redevelop their website. Many new exciting features are present - Flash Videos are immediately accessible, workspaces can be saved and shared with other users, and thanks to a migration to a MySQL database, related links are now offered. The site is already a big hit with film researchers, schools and the general public - offering fast access and advanced research tools to one of the world's greatest online archives.

www.britishpathe.com
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Imperial War Museum uses Imagen DAMs  

Cambridge Imaging Systems have supplied the Imperial War Museum (IWM) with the Imagen digital asset management system to help manage its film and audio archive and to assist in making content available online.

At the heart of the new system is the Imagen Media Control Centre (IMCC) developed by Cambridge Imaging systems. This will manage the workflow of ingesting, decoding, transcoding and distributing digital images via the museum’s Web site. Researchers and the general public will be able to search for archived material and view contemporary footage and still images relating to world conflict throughout the past century.

www.iwmcollections.com

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Siobhan Davies Dance Archive  
In 2006, an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) grant was awarded to researchers at Coventry University to create a digital archive of the work of Siobhan Davies Dance. The award is significant in acknowledging the limited resources readily available to dance scholars as well as to dance audiences in general. CIS were commissioned with providing their Digital Asset management systems for this project. to produce the first digital dance archive in the UK.

www.siobhandaviesarchive.com
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How to create an online film archive

This is a case study that shows how the British Pathe newsreel archive was digitised from film and published online.

 

  Telecine field dominance

Many archives are attempting to encode material from videotape that was originated on film. The original film material could have been transferred to videotape by telecine up to 30 years ago. After encoding, exaggerated interlacing artefacts, described as combing, tearing or ghosting may be found. This paper explains the source of these artefacts and suggests some possible solutions.
 

  Open Source Coldfire IDE

We use quite a lot of open source tools in our work. The Eclipse graphical IDE started life as a Java development platform but it is now a huge project encompassing all sorts of different development requirements. It is one of the most professional open source projects we have ever seen.

This is how we set up Eclipse and a GNU C/C++ toolchain for developing software for FreeScale ColdFire CPUs.

 


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