The first step in creating a media preservation plan is to quantify the media collection. A small team will come onsite and examine the physical assets. We’ll take a complete inventory of the media formats while making an initial condition assessment. We’ll then create a working plan and budget for the initial digital ingest, cataloging and archiving of the library. A budget for ongoing preservation and secure access will also be created.

Aldis’ media experts will transfer each piece of media into digitized content, preserving every tiny last detail. The goal is to get as perfect a copy of the original as possible. In many cases, this is the last copy that may ever get made, so we apply broadcast network quality controls to make sure we get it right. There’ll be at least three copies created: a high-quality “perfect” copy for future use, a smaller lightweight viewable copy, and a long term storage version for deep archive.

Properly organizing your DAM project is essential to managing and sharing digital asset fsrom you DAM system's library in the future. Aldis’ professional archivists gather all the bits of information about your media and enter them into a customized database, allowing you to search and retrieve your collection as easily as using Google.

Assets ready to be used and stop collecting dust.

Legacy assets require storage that takes up space, and if that space is off-site, it can be quite expensive. Their media formats can be hard to access because the requisite players are often no longer available. Digitizing legacy assets frees organizations up from the space use/costs of storing the physical assets while making them easily usable and accessible in a centralized repository.

No matter what level of access you want to your media, security and privacy are always our top concerns. Constructing tight network security and carefully creating user permissions are just the first necessary steps. We make sure that only the people you authorize have access to your valuable media.