Case Study: Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) achieves mass digital archive migration and instant access with Atos

Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) Moving the past to the future

Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), Austria’s national public broadcaster and guardian of a multimedia archive of well over one million hours, faced an unsustainable cycle of continual media format migrations, costly tape storage and hard-to-access material. ORF launched the DiMi (Digital Migration) project to convert an initial tranche of 300,000 hours (around 600,000 tapes) to file-based formats and engaged Atos to deliver the migration without disrupting day-to-day archive operations.

Atos set up a Vienna Competence Center and a dedicated 10–15-strong team, combining automated ingestion with staffed quality control and a flexible “factory” job-queuing approach. The Atos-led migration achieved an average throughput of 82.5 hours per day, 365 days a year, dramatically reducing physical storage, lowering operating costs and giving program makers, researchers and audiences fast digital access to previously hidden archival material.

Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)

Herbert Hayduck

Head of Documentation and Archives