Diagnosis of audiovisual information processing in local television archives. Case study in Cuba

Abstract

Audiovisual archives in local television stations favor the processing and preservation of audio-visual information for his retrival. The peculiarities of the processing of audiovisual information on local television stations archives have been little addressed from the scientific production. In the methodological order, there is a shortage of tools and instruments that allow diagnosing the processing of audiovisual information on local televi-sion. There are specific techniques and procedures that allow the processing of information, but which are limited to the traditional technical documentary processes: classification, cataloging, indexing and abstracting. Due to its characteristics, local television stations requires specific media and models that allow diagnosing the processing of audiovisual information from the materials they produce.