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What We Do:


Are your assets a mess? Whether you’re an established artist, a DIY, a record label, or an institutional archive, BMS/Chace can help you preserve, manage, access, and monetize your irreplaceable audio and video assets. We can also help you sleep at night. We provide state of the art services and tools for archival preservation, fast access, and metadata capture and deployment. We enhance the value of any audio or video catalog and ensure its long-term survival. BMS/Chace’s expertise in enterprise-class hardware and software options enable the best and most economical decisions for ongoing preservation and immediate access to all your assets.

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Artist Assets:


No, it’s not that easy anymore, but BMS/Chace has answers. The 21st century performer generates unprecedented and overwhelming amounts of mixed media data. The artist of yesterday is saddled by obsolete formats and deteriorating tapes. Many enduring stars have to contend with both, but all are faced with a similar challenge - how will their legacies (and income) survive into the future? Our unique data management techniques and metadata tools provide the solution, ensuring the usefulness, sustainability and value of any catalog. State of the art technology coupled with real-world workflow expertise makes sure that nothing is ever lost along the way. High quality transfers and migration to digital preservation file-sets are available from any source, including at risk or deteriorating media and obsolete formats.

New Media/Delivery and Preservation:


What’s in the box? BMS/Chace offers point-of-delivery Verification and cataloging of Master recordings, tour video and audio, contracts, photos, and just about anything else. We confirm that content owners have received what they paid for and that they will be able to access and make use of all elements. Future-proof archival migration and documentation ensures that all assets will be available now and in the future, effectively countering the rapid software and hardware obsolescence and high probability of media failure that puts all modern audio and video recordings at high risk.

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Monetization

Monetization:


Yes, there’s that. The BMS/Chace asset management and preservation methodology is helping entertainment companies, artists, and institutions to adapt to the new and game-changing realities of the digital world. Increasingly important revenue sources include TV, movies and commercials. Maximum media exposure is the norm. If a company can’t provide the necessary content immediately, the opportunity is lost. Through verified delivery, complete documentation, digital migration, and ease of access, BMS/Chace enables content owners to effectively re-purpose and re-monetize their assets. Detailed metadata linkage allows adaptation to new royalty requirements as they arise.

How We Do It:

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Enterprise Class Data Management:

It’s all about the data. BMS/Chace provides the tools and skills necessary to create a robust environment for the access and long-term viability of digital preservation files and metadata. Our custom databases provide immediate and comprehensive information. Our use of Globally Unique Identifiers, checksums, controlled vocabularies and metadata linkage provide a high level of flexibility and security. Our IT expertise and familiarity with fast-changing hardware and software options enables a broad range of efficient storage and access scenarios.

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Custom Tools/Open Access:

BMS/Chace can create a variety of specialized software, custom tailored to each client’s needs. Our tools enhance the capture of a rich set of documentation and metadata, and we never forget that it is your data. Our open-source output enables all assets to conform to a wide variety of existing and emerging metadata standards and to remain easily accessible in the future using open-source file-sets and database structures rather than proprietary systems that can vanish. Institutions with existing archival databases can expect a seamless electronic transfer of metadata, and collections without an existing database can take advantage of our experience in creating custom database environments.

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State Of The Art Transfers:

BMS/Chace can transfer legacy recordings from over 86 different playback sources, many of them long-obsolete. All projects, whether a routine transfer or a complex restoration, benefit from the resources, careful attention and skilled personnel available at BMS/Chace. Each transfer uses the highest-quality converters appropriate for the project, and all machines are aligned and checked daily to be at factory specification prior to transfer.