Danish Radio (DR) and Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) – the two major public stations in respectively Denmark and Norway - have decided to join forces in handling their commercial music archives. NRK has already established a digital music archive (DMA), now the scope is to make DMA to a joint venture between DR and NRK.
Phase one is giving DR access to DMA in NRK for search, pre-listening and downloading of assets and metadata to the DR production suites.
In phase 2 there will be enhancements of the database in DMA to fit the needs of both stations and the metadata from the legacy in DR will be harmonized with the metadata in DMA. This will give a replenishment of registrations given the different ways of cataloging the same records. This phase will also give the NRK journalists the possibility to search for material physically available in the DR archive and order them for downloading to the NRK production suites.
The third and final phase will be a complete collaboration; common registration of incoming material, common storage for assets, shared responsibility for ingest and common product development.
The purpose of this collaboration is not only cost savings, but also a way to share knowledge, experience and culture across national and cultural borders. It will be, as DR and NRK see it, the first step against a more integrated and shared archive technology and praxis than seen so far.