The project intends to face the challenges of the exploitation of audio archives with following objectives:

• Improvement of the acquisition processes namely by using a “Single Sensor Source Separation”approach
• Improvement of the retrieval processes amely by using a “Advance search base on semantic annotations”
• Definition of an “Open Exchange Format”based on standards by using an approach based on standards, mainly the OAIS (ISO 14 721)
• Evaluation and validation by using a demonstratorfed with a large spectrum of domain of applications.