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The History of the Radio
Heinrich Hertz, a German physicist applied Maxwell's theories to the production and reception of radio waves in 1887, and then the peak development of mass media occurred in 19th century with the invention of electricity. His experiments with electromagnetic waves led to the development of the wireless telegraph and radio. Since then, so many studies were taken place towards the development of this media by different researchers & scientists. Nowadays more than thousands of radio stations around the world are involved in broadcasting different programs including news, entertainment, music etc. TV expansion didn't put an end to the radio, in return, using the internet resulted in an evolution and removed some technical limitations, so that radio waves can be heard all over the word.

Sound Archive Resources:
Archives and/or in general preserving the resources Including video, audio or text are vital in all countries of the world, since these resources refer to kind of heritage of the countries and carry cultural, historical, political & social changes of every societies. Archives of some broadcasting organizations sometimes have a precedence which in fact is much older than their organizations, so full preservation and observation of these archive contents have a role of national & cultural heritage for every country, therefore broadcasting organization have to transfer this cultural heritage to the next generations. There is no doubt that special investments should be taken into consideration. For high accuracy and efficiency of video and audio resources, either original or copy, observing the regulations and standards are important with respect to temperature, humidity & suitable ventilation as well as protecting against different kinds of waves. Because in spite of predictions and measurements of related organizations, the lifetime of the media is not too much and not stable either, so after some years, the environment and so many other changes will damage the contents of the data. So in general, the following difficulties seriously threaten audio tape archive resources which are considered as national & cultural resources of the countries. 1-	With a bit pressure and tension of a related device, magnetic particles presenting over old tapes will pour and cause the tapes tear down and damage. 2-	Magnetic induction and adhesiveness of the layers of the tapes that happen over time have bad effects on them and the result will be an undesired back round noise. 3-	Repeated duplication of the tapes for journalists & researchers on request has bad effects on the quality of them and then gradually will decrease the lifetime of the tapes. 4-	Due to annual program productions the amount of analogue sound archives will increase. As a result a suitable place will be difficult to provide. 5-	The level of security of archive for illegal accessibility and misusing of the data will decrease over time but from the other side, the costs of security control will increase. 6-	The outgoings for preserving and supporting of archives increase annually. 7-	Using archive resources manually will be time consuming and will also be difficult to access for users, in fact this matter causes the production process of radio programs takes more time. Then there arises a need for a much more active service provision. So to preserve their national and cultural heritage and in order to have a digitized radio network radio stations shall digitize the archives resources in a specified and short period of time.

Benefits of a Digitized Radio Network:
1-	Digitized archives are enjoying a long life. 2-	Digitized archives need a small place. 3-	Using digital technology is easily accessible to retrieve video & audio resources. 4-	Digitized archives are protected against illegal access and other changes so nobody can have access or change its originality without permission. 5-	Accessing to and offering services in digital archives will be easily done to journalists and researchers with different qualities via interactive telecommunication and internet networks. 6-	Duplication & copying of archive resources in a digitized archive will be easy and under control while not losing the quality. 7-	 Using digital technology is easy to remove the undesired noise without damaging the original document. 8-	Easily access for users is possible to all archive in short time with such level of accessibility that can minimize searching time of the manual catalogue. 9-	Broadcasting and production processes in digital radio networks will be done much faster with great care and accuracy. 10-	All costs in a digital archive including human resources & equipment will be increasingly decreased.

Ethiopian Radio History:
In man's effort to communicate with people, radio marks a special advance. In this respect radio, one of the several fields of information has become the universal medium of communication. So Ethiopia has been no exception to these fast moving changes, and because of its speed and range of coverage, radio broadcasting is by far the most indispensable instrument of mass media in Ethiopia. Indeed, because of the initiatives and farsightedness of his Imperial Majesty Haile Selasic I, all of the modern communication media are in operation in Ethiopia. And by the year 1930 he put the first building stone on the place of Nefas silk radio station. For this important medium an honorable start was made in the year 1941.The existing broadcasting facility at that time was a 7.5 KW short wave transmitter. Ethiopian Radio Agency, which was expanding it's horizon, established F.M. Addis 97.1 Megahertz in May 1999 for the first time in Ethiopia. The media which covers Addis Ababa and it's surroundings uses a transmitter power of 2.5 KW. So the primary objective of Ethiopian radio which is the most important instrument of mass media has been entertaining, educating & informing the public. The Importance of Automation & Digitalization of the Ethiopian Radio: Since the sound archive of Ethiopian Radio that has been gathered over a 60- year period, is considered as an important national & cultural heritage in Ethiopia, preserving and maintaining of this archive is absolutely important. Nowadays there are opportunities to improve the existing system. So changing archive system from analogue into digital which possesses high range of security must be a priority. For the some reason, the on-time action of radio officials and their initiative and farsightedness towards automation and digitalization of national archive is fully appreciated and admirable. Indeed this action shows that radio officials are determined to unify the instrument with state- of -the -art technology of the world, and forward their archive move along with the developed countries and take long steps for development of the country, in order to provide a system that offers timely, accurate and relevant information that satisfy the existing and potential users and journalists. In this respect, the request of Ethiopian Radio Officials was accepted by respected ambassador of Islamic Republic of Iran. So the requested budget for first phase of this project was provided via Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) of Islamic Republic of Iran. Respected ambassador of Islamic republic of Iran Mr.Fotoohi Ghiam made every endeavour to allocate this budget to Ethiopian Radio and First Secretary of Islamic republic of Iran Mr. Hussaini has made some important efforts and has contributed a lot to the development of the project. Grateful acknowledgment is made to them. Therefore after putting the work out to tender among different companies, Saramagd Int'l Co. took the responsibility of the automation and digitalization project of Ethiopian Radio with respect to it's successful previous experience for automation project of Institute of Ethiopian Studies Library at Addis Ababa University. This radio archive center is considered invaluable for Ethiopia. General Specifications of the Automation & Digitization Project of Ethiopian Radio:

The Ethiopia Radio center has three sections:
1-	Library section, the collection is around 4,000 books. 2-	Documentation section contains 23820 audio documents and 3-	Sound library which is the largest broadcasting center in the country, the total number of pieces music of in the sound library is 72,583. -

The main objectives of establishing such a project are as followed:
1-	To provide quality service to the journalists. 2-	To make an effective system for sound broadcasting. 3-	To build user- friendly web interface. 4-	To provide timely and accurate borrowing system. 5-	To develop timely reporting system. Saramagd Int'l Co. defined radio automation and digitalization project in two phases, in which the first phase refers to converting the audio documents into standard digital format and storing them in a hard Disk, and media and then transferring the records through the sound desk to the antenna. The implementing stages of the Ethiopian Radio Project Saramagd Int'l Co. defined the first phase of this important project by applying Project Management Techniques and Value Engineering in 5 professional and technical teams. The company is using young Iranian professional experts with Master of Science degrees. This project also is organized base on 1200 hours of professional work both in Iran & Ethiopia. At present the job is going on in phase one to convert all audio and music archive while considering the compatibility of the present system with the new system that is using modern and state- of -the -art instrument and sound card with standard format as WAVE 24bit / 48 KHz. From this amount of capacity 10 Terabytes with WAVE format on a media or LT0 and 6 Terabytes with MPEG 1 layer II on HDD will be stored on a network as online archive in order to be accessible by users and journalists. The equipment which is anticipated for implementing the project include, a full server, a storage with 6 Terabytes capacity and back up LTO tapes with 10 Terabytes, UPS and Barcode printer as well as 5 full DAW computer stations. These pieces of equipment are used by users in broadcasting & production studios. Thus users can do the searching via a 10/100/1000 network, and then after the selection, transfer the data to the broadcasting studio.

Digital Global Library Software (DGL)
In order to effectively use and manage the huge amount of data in the digital archive of Ethiopian Radio, the second version of the software was implemented. Saramagd int'l Co. has designed the software named Digital Global Library. The full second version of DGL is a professional Software designed for storage and retrieval of all digitized music and sound documents. This Software is based on the most recent standards of MARC 21 and SCAM. The Software also uses VB.Net technology. This Software is designed for implementing sound automation that one of the main privileges of the of the DGL software is it's capability for storage and retrieval of Amharic language and compatibility with Ethiopian script and all Unicode languages so it is user- friendly and simple so that the user can manage the data easily.

Saramagd International Company:
Saramagd int'l Co. is an international institution which was established with the best intentions of having a deep respect and value for customers while using customer-based management methods and offering services to the people through Hi technology methods. This Company is also practically active in different fields including electronics IT and packaging such as production, trading and services. In addition to, With respect to its successful previous experiences as well as using young technical professional experts the company has implemented so many projects in different sections. one of the sections of Saramagd Int'l Co. refers to IT. In this section so much software is designed and implemented or is under going. One of them is the Digital Global Library Software which is based on MARC 21 most recent standards. At present the Software is running at Institute of Ethiopian Studies Library at Addis Ababa University. The company is implementing a web based version of this Software in near future. With respect to so many capabilities of the DGL Software such as its multi language options, Saramagd Int'l Co. is pleased to execute the similar projects in field of automation and digitalization of books, sound and museums in different countries based on the global standards. In electronic section, Saramagd Int'l Co. is working on the production of UPS with a new technology, attendance control system and low cost computers. In this case it will offer its manufactured goods to the customers either in Ethiopia or other African and Asian countries in the near future. In Telecommunication section the Company has the capability to implement ICT Plans and Voice IP systems... and is pleased to participate in tenders as well.

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