72.2 Media Library

First of all, assets are the core elements of the broadcasting process, those elements in order to be programmed into a schedule must be firstly defined and their more relevant properties defined into a single object called asset form,  this object which act as a container, allows the insertion and association of all relevant metadata, media files, rights, T-workflows, etc, to a particular event.
Assets are saved in the database and managed by the Etere Media Library application, permitting you to search, visualize and amend saved assets and to create new ones as well. The Etere's Media Library is the central module from which operators can view and control relevant operations comprehended by the Asset Management process, in the figure below it has been illustrated the way on which Etere Media Library centralize several functions in only one module:
Etere Media Library
The media managed by a station is its lifeblood, from it flow the most essential elements of a broadcast business: availability and efficiency. Etere makes the most of your media by increasing the availability and efficiency of your media library. Etere allows more systems to work better together than ever before, gives you a framework for your business built around the following fundamental elements:
➢Rich media library, providing you with access to media across all parts of your organization.
➢Shared media catalog, enabling you to maximize the distribution purposes of your assets.
➢Modular architecture, facilitating the integration of all the ingest, production, archive and distribution operations in your facility.
➢Web services, enabling external systems to integrate applications through standard interfaces and T-workflows.
This module allows you to manage Asset Forms, which act as containers, allowing the insertion and association of all relevant metadata, media files, rights, T-workflows, etc, to particular events.  Assets are saved in the database and managed by the Media Library module, which permits users to search, visualize and amend saved assets and to create new ones as well.

Asset Forms allows operators to control and also perform from a centralized module the most relevant operations comprised by the Asset Management process.