Digitising a large video archive in Sweden

The National Library of Sweden preserves all TV and Radio broadcasts in Sweden for future research. The library collect, preserve and make available almost everything that is published in Sweden (ref. kb.se).  The archive consists of over 10 million hours of material, largely of analogue magnetic tapes.

When looking for a solution to migrate the analogue videotapes to digital video files, the National Library of Sweden chose Metus Ingest, supplied by the systems integration team in Mediability.

Read more about the project on Metus website here.

Infrastructure and equipment

Mediability is the reseller of METUS software solutions, in addition to a range of professional equipment vendors and technology companies, such as Grass Valley, LiveU, LYNX, Telestream, AWS Elemental, Nevion, Mjoll, and 7Mountains (click links to see a selection of our offering).

For the project with The National Library of Sweden, the systems integration team from Mediability delivered all technical infrastructure with rac units, KVM systems switches from IHSE, monitor solutions from OSEE, in addition to installation, training and delivery.

(Article image from https://www.kb.se/)