The Audiovisual Universal Archive will realize Europe's largest open digital video archive for the consultation and local reuse of open-licensed (eg Creative Commons) and public domain audio and video contents, that will gather 2,000,000 gigabytes of content in 3 years. To maximize the reuse of these contents, we'll develop advanced caching technicques, P2P technologies, and free software applications for the remixing and publishing from the browser.

The Archive's data center and consultation spaces will also constitute as a world-class architectural masterpiece placed on a pedestal in the Roman landscape well connected by the Cassia Bis, the only Roman Parkway. With consultation spaces to tens of thousands of titles on DVD and Blu-Ray, and a Film Scripts Library with over 10,000 publications, it will serve as an European center of gravity for audiovisual community, production and micro-production chains focused on research, editing, training and remixing.

The cultural complex, made of a fully glass-clad and innovative data center and consultation spaces, will be housed in an architectural masterpiece located on the most elevated and naturally precious area of our lot; basically on a pedestal on top of a small hill, abutting over Rome's only Parkway through Veio's Park. We will hold shortly an architectural competition for the design of this complex. We have already received expressions of interest for its design by 2 icons of global architecture:

• Zaha Hadid, one of the top 5 contemporary architects in the world, and probably the greatest woman architect of the century.
• Peter Eisenman, an historical figure in world's architecture, is among the top 10 architects in the world of the last century.

Access to content will be provided only in secured public consultation areas through the Park via fiber network, or on the Internet, depending on content licensing and other agreements with content partners. It will provision paid services for companies with medium and large revenues in orer to manage operating costs and future expansion, unless the Public Administration and other sponsors decides to undertake such costs. Here are the paid services that will be provided: digitization, preservation, conversion, marketing, storage, and more. More basic info:

• Target: Local access will be free for small and medium producers, students, researchers, journalists and citizens from Lazio, Italy and Europe, up to a maximum of 500Gbytes of local traffic per month.
• Language: content from around the world, with an emphasis on Italian and English languages, and European, Italian and regional (Lazio) content.
• Format: Content in digital form, and content in DVD or Blu-Ray. Where possible, the original version at full resolution will be accessible.
• Selection: content will be selected according to their cultural value, potential demand for reuse and enjoyment, or opening of licensing/terms of use.
• Rosselini Film Scripts Library: a new branch of existing Formello's Municipal Library, called "Roberto Rossellini Moving Image Library", which will keep and make available about 2,000 documents including magazines, books and screenplays, and will subsequently be expanded with the acquisition of 10,000 other publications with free access to creatives and audiovisual students.
• Open Remix Module: a research project to realize a prototype telematic infrastructure to enable creators and producers within highly-connected video production centers to efficiently access, remix and reuse 100s of Terabytes of video content available under public domain or shareable licenses. The project has been submitted for regional POR co-financing calls with Cisco, Wikipedia and Kaltura.
• Public workstations: the Audiovisual Archive spaces will offer about 60 workstations for public consultation and 15 video editing workstations with fiber connection. Each workstation will feature advanced systems against piracy.

The combination of the following technologies will allow immediate access to audiovisual content:

• Local Storage: from 500 terabytes to reach 2 Petabytes (2,000,000 gigabytes) of storage space in 3 years. Virtual storage: possibility to integrate with "unlimited" space of virtualized networked storage (Amazon S3, Akamai, ISP, etc).
• Dedicated Backbone: a proprietary, redundant and dedicated backbone will connect the Audiovisual Archive and the Telematics Park to a primary ISP hub in Rome.
• Internal Fiber Network: an internal network entirely in fiber-to-the-desktop within the Telematics Park with advanced router and switch systems.
• DVD/Blu-ray JukeBoxes: an advanced telematic system for local access to tens of thousands of proprietary DVD/Blu-Ray content will allow consultation in a few seconds ("Jukebox" style).
• Local Caching: advanced local caching techniques, emerging P2P and Content Delivery Networks technologies, combined with arrangements of "advanced caching rights" with the curators of some partner collections.
• Proprietary Local Caching: in a second phase, agreements with major content producers and distributors, television and movies industry, for the settlement and on-site access from dedicated servers to their contents.

A web portal with strong collaboration, sharing and social media features, along with dedicated public spaces in Audiovisual Telematics Park, will create a dynamic micro-audiovisual production community focused on research, editing and remixing, composed of small and medium producers, teenagers, students, researchers, journalists and citizens.