agm digital arts develops frameworks for the capturing, formatting, transcription, storage and retrieval of digital content.

These systems have many application areas from large corporations who require knowledge capture from employees and specialists in many areas to important education projects where the expertise of teaching staff and the experience of students needs capturing for future generations.

One current project is with the Arnold Schönberg archive in Vienna, Austria. Here we are putting what has been many years of theory into practice by recording digital content and creating a careful workflow that allows such an archive to expand with digital media in addition and as an enhancement to the existing traditional archive practices.

This work involves making initial program material in HD that is stored and processed for replay on the newly installed replay environment (also from agm digital) as part of the current exhibition "Arnold Schönberg - Wer Ich Bin). These digital assets can be reformatted for replay even down to "YouTube" resolution and, when carefully transcribed and archived, they can be linked and appended to as the digital archive grows. This offers a most valuable resource to students of the works of Arnold Schönberg and really for the first time offers the linking of materials for cross referencing and searching purposes.

It is envisaged that a network of such archives will eventually be linked in an exchange of high resolution content globally between learning institutes.

Eike Fess (archive assistant) and Nuria Schönberg-Nono in the main vault of the Arnold Schönberg Archive in Vienna
Please see further images in the picture gallery.