Following its announcement at the NAB show, the debut of the Front Porch Digital DIVArchive V7.0 Archive eXchange Format (AXF) is set for Broadcast Asia, which will take place in Singapore during June.

including database files, documents, and image files – not just media assets. AXF AXF supports for the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model as well as features such as provenance for both media and objects, inherent GUID/UMID support, geo location tagging, error detection down to the file/structure level and data-validity spot checking.

Front Porch Digital is describing the open AXF broadcast storage format as being ready to revolutionise interoperability among systems, making future media workflows ‘more secure, seamless, and efficient than ever before’. Being content and storage technology agnostic, the AXF format promises to be the most open, flexible, dynamic, and protected mechanism for file-based archive, preservation, and exchange.

As a founding member of the SMPTE AXF committee, Front Porch Digital is committed to open standards work and will feed its AXF designs back to the SMPTE committee to further AXF standardisation. ‘When the SMPTE AXF committee went into a hiatus in 2008, we went back to the drawing board and leveraged more than a decade of expertise in storage technology and large-scale archiving systems to design, develop, and implement AXF,’ says CTO Brian Campanotti.

Front Porch Digital calls on more than a decade of expertise in storage technology and large-scale archiving systems to design, develop, and implement AXF. The result is expected to become the ‘long-awaited global, open, and portable standard for archiving and preservation of all file-based content’.

Front Porch Digital will also use BroadcasAsia to showcase its DIVArchive V7.0 content storage management system – part of the Front Porch Digital DIVASolutions line of products. This will have new capabilities to lend it to a broader array of applications.

More: www.fpdigital.com
More: www.openaxf.org