The Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images, in Swedish Statens ljud- och bildarkiv, SLBA, was founded in 1979 (originally having the name Arkivet för ljud och bild, ALB) with the aim of collecting and preserving all film and recorded sound produced in Sweden, including radio and television programs.
The archive was an independent institution under the Ministry of Education, Research and Culture (utbildnings - och kulturdepartementet).
SLBA performed a mass-digitizing on parts of its collections, primarily focusing on public service material.
Over a three-year period, an initial selection of 1.5 million hours of material were to be digitized and made available to researchers.
Once the digitization process is completed, automatic functions create new carrier database records, insert metadata, direct the new archive and browsing files to their final mass storage locations, and link files to the MARC based database for direct access.