A Practical Approach in Digitizing Analogue Audio Assets

Today, Broadcast companies are migrating from aTape-based workflow to that File-Based .This not only affectsgrowing number of channels and new ways of broadcasting, butalso it changes the way we store and retrieve our preciouscontents. Such historical essences are transferred to digital onlyonce and used numerous of times, so the method we use fortransferring these materials is so important. Technicalparameters of digitizing from Capturing and scanning to Storagemedia and formats are as important as non-technical conceptslike metadata and Cataloguing. In this paper, a practical methodof transferring Analog materials to digital formats and media ispresented. Suitable formats, backup, metadata and qualitycontrol methods are introduced. A very best practice of digitizingproject at IRIB huge archive will be introduced as a practicalexample