MEMNON Archiving Services

Founded in January 2005, MEMNON is a spin off of Musica Numeris, renowned for the recording and edition of classical music. MEMNON Archiving Service is specialized in the digitizing, recording, restoration, documentation, handling of metadata, and archiving of sound.The British Library, Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition and the Reader's Digest are among MEMNON’s current clients.

MEMNON is member of many cultural organisations, among which the “International Association of Sound and Audio-Visual Archives” (IASA) and the “TITAN” organisation.

MEMNON acts as coordinator of the Project.

RADIO SUISSE ROMANDE 
(Swiss Broadcasting Corporation)

The Radio Suisse Romande is the major radio media of French-speaking Switzerland. It is one of SRG SSR idée Suisse’s corporate units, which offers sixteen programs of radio and six programs of TV in four national languages.

SRG SSR cooperates with the national archives of the media with a view to collecting, listing and keeping the recording of its programs; it contributes to putting them at people’s disposal for subsequent usages. The media, which are members of SRG SSR idée Suisse, and the Radio Suisse Romande in particular, have gathered in their archives several thousands of audio and visual documents since the 30’s. 

In order to manage its digital sound assets, the RSR has developed SIRANAU (Integrated Radio System for Digital Audio Archiving.

TECHNION  

The Israel Institute of Technology

In operation since 1924, the Technion is the oldest university in Israel. The Department of Electrical Engineering of the Technion is ranked among the "top 10" Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments in the world.

The department acts as a centre of excellence in applied and theoretical research, particularly in the fields of electrical and computer engineering.

The most noteworthy expansion has recently been evident in the areas of optoelectronics, microelectronics, communications, signal processing, computer vision, computer networks and parallel information systems.

Audionamix

Audionamix (previously MIST Techologies) is a French R&D company founded in 2002, providing source separation solutions for cases where only one sensor or one microphone is available.

This approach aims to modelize the way we perceive sounds. It is natural to apply this theory to source separation as a trained ear is capable to recognize musical instruments and focus on some of them in the case of a composite or polyphonic recording.

Audionamix is a company supported by the French Ministry of Research, is both a fundamental research lab in this field and a development centre integrating patented results in industrial-class applications.

PubGene

PubGene AS was established by researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway), and the Norwegian Radium Hospital (Norway). The PubGene vision is to become one of the leading suppliers of information refined through advanced text mining processing and specialised solutions for analysis of genomics and proteomics data. 

PubGene makes available organized information on gene-gene and gene-protein interactions to significantly improve the understanding of cell behaviour and interactions supporting drug discovery and testing. The PubGene solution explores and organizes the information contained in the millions of articles and data contained in text repositories, such as Medline, and in proprietary and public sequence and expression data repositories. The University of Oslo is hosting the PubGene free service www.pubgene.org showing some of the features in the PubGene product.

Norsk Lydinstitutt (Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound)

The Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound has been established as a foundation to take care of, accession and make accessible Arne Dørumsgaard's and other substantial recorded sound collections. The collection comprises 100.000 LP's, 40.000 78's, 8.000 magnetic tapes of radio broadcasted live concerts, 5000 cassettes and videos, 5000 books, catalogues and magazines. This material documents Western art (so-called classical) music recorded in the analogue era, focusing on interpretation (rather than compositions). 

The research status of the institutes aims predominantly at analizing the development of interpretation in the analogue era, documenting the research with source material from the collection, digitized for comparative and analytical purposes.

UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded on 16 November 1945. Today, UNESCO functions as a laboratory of ideas and a standard-setter to forge universal agreements on emerging ethical issues.

UNESCO has a mandate to preserve the world's audiovisual recorded heritage and is actively involved in strategies, in cooperation with our partners, to attain this objective. It supports efforts to develop and use ICTs for the preservation of memory to keep it accessible. The World Summit on the Information Society, in adopting the principles espoused by UNESCO recommend development of systems for ensuring continued access to archived digital information and multimedia content in digital repositories.

Through its participation in the project, UNESCO will contribute to the development of effective information management policies based on an innovative solution to digital archiving and thereby ensure long-term preservation of, and continued access to, information. Its access to archives in different countries would enable permit broad testing of the software and wider dissemination.