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Searching and browsing film archives – The European Film Gateway approach
Cultural Heritage 2009Cairo, Egypt 6-8 December 2009
Pasquale Savino – ISTI-CNRFranca Debole – ISTI-CNR
Georg Eckes - DIF
• growing number of digitisation projects and repositories of digital collections need for a registry of collections, items and film-specific authority
files on a trans-institutional, trans-national level• Lack of common standards for database & record structures suitable for
the needs of film archives need for common interoperability standards
• flickr, youTube etc. influence user expectations, digital libraries initiatives are on their way challenge for film archives to go along
• lack of knowledge and best practices when it comes to dealing with IPR issues in the context of web-based access need to join experiences
Initial Situation:Why a European Film Gateway?
Goals and Objectives:What is EFG supposed to achieve?
• build a „digital showcase“ for collections of Europe‘s film archives and cinematheques• Moving images: Films and film clips, trailers etc.• Images: Posters, images, stills, drawings etc.• Text material: Reviews, correspondance, censoship
documents etc.• Sound material: Interviews etc.
• make collections accessible through a common access point
• create a registry of digital objects and filmographic authority records
• link Europe‘s film archives and cinematheques with Europeana and operate as an “Aggregator” for Europeana
• make more than 700.000 photographs, posters, texts, audio documents, films and film clips covering more than 100 years of film history accessible by 2011
Objectives
• Defining a metadata schema which is able to describe the complexity of EFG data structures, relationships, and content and that can support search and browsing capabilities
• Joining archives and filmographies and support export of complex metadata structures (OAI-PMH)
• Cleaning and consolidating data from heterogeneous sources
• Enriching content (tagging archival resources and filmographic editing)
• Clearing rights where necessary
Providers of ContentDeutsches Filminstitut – DIF (coordinator) FrankfurtDEUCinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do cinema Lisbon PRTCineteca del Comune di Bologna Bologna ITADet Danske Filminstitut Copenhagen DNKFilmarchiv Austria Vienna AUTIstituto Luce Rome ITALa Cinémathèque Française ParisFRALichtspiel - Kinemathek Bern Bern CHELietuvos Centrinis Valstybés Archyvas Vilnius LTUMagyar Nemzeti Filmarchívum Budapest HUNNárodní Filmový Archiv Prague CZENasjonalbiblioteket Oslo NORNederlands Filmmuseum Amsterdam NLDTainiothiki tis Ellados Athens GRC
Providers of Infrastructures, Services, and TechnologiesAssociation des Cinémathèques Européennes (initiator) Frankfurt/BrusselsDEU/BELCNR-ISTI Pisa ITAEDL Foundation The Hague NLDEremo srl CupramontanaITAFernUniversität Hagen Hagen DEUreelport GmbH Cologne DEU
20 institutions | 13 countries | 11 languages
Partner Institutions:Who is behind EFG?
Goals and Objectives:What is EFG supposed to achieve?
Definition of a common interoperability schema
• Approach – The schema was designed taking into
account the specific application scenario– Looking at existing models, in order to
take into account previous experiences and to simplify the schema mapping
– The model is based on the User needs defined in EFG
– Maintain a compatibility with ESE in order to simplify the ingestion process into Europeana
The EFG Metadata Schema
The EFG Metadata SchemaAn AV Creation Corresponds to a Cinematographic work as defined in EN 15907.
Main elements:• Identifier• Title• Record Source• Identifying Title• Country of Reference• Production Year• Keywords• Description• Note• UserTag • ViewFilmography
The EFG Metadata Schema
An AV Manifestation is the physical embodiment of an audio visual creation. For example, it may contain the different national versions, different productions of the same AV Creation.
Main elements:• Identifier• Title• Record Source• Language• Dimension• Duration• Coverage• Format• Rights holder• Provenance• Thumbnail• Note
The EFG Metadata Schema
An Item contains a reference to the external resource. For a single AV Manifestation we may have several Items stored in different archives.
Main elements:• Identifier• IsShownBy• IsShownAt• Format• Provider• URI• Country• Note
The EFG Metadata Schema
Examples of Non AV Creations are pictures, photos, correspondence, books or periodicals
Main elements:• Identifier• Title• Record Source• Keywords• Description• Date Created• Language• Note• UserTag
The EFG Metadata Schema
A Non AV Manifestation is the physical embodiment of an Non AV Creation.
Main elements:• Identifier• Title• Record Source• Type• Language• Date• Digital Format• Physical Format• Geographic Scope• Coverage• Rights holder• Provenance• Thumbnail• Note
The EFG Metadata Schema
An Agent is an Entity that can perform an action.There are three agent types:
•PersonIdentifier, Record Source, Name, Date, Region of Activity, Place, Sex, Type of Activity, Note, ViewBiography
•Corporate Body•Group
The EFG Metadata SchemaPublication eventE.g. a public screening, broadcast or a public release on a physical distribution medium or online•Elements: Identifier, Record Source, Type, Date, Regional Scope, Place, Event Name, Exhibition organizer, Publisher, Access conditions, NoteDecision eventAn event in which a manifestation of a creation was evaluated by a censorship body or an accredited rating agencyIPR RegistrationAwardProduction eventExamples are dates and locations where castings took place or dates and locations of shootings or other recordings
An example of the use of theEFG Metadata Schema
• Title: “2001: A Space Odissey”• Record Source: IMDB• Identifying Title: “2001: A Space Odissey”• Country of Reference: • Production Year: 1968• Keywords: Science Fiction, HAL, intelligent
computer• Description: “Mankind finds a mysterious,
obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest”
An example of the use of theEFG Metadata Schema
• Title: “2001: A Space Odissey”• Record Source: IMDB• Identifying Title: “2001: A Space Odissey”• Country of Reference: • Production Year: 1968• Keywords: Science Fiction, HAL, intelligent
computer• Description: “Mankind finds a
mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest”
• Title: “2001: Odissea nello Spazio”• Record Source: “Cineteca Nazionale”• Language: IT• Duration: 141 min
• Title: “2001: A Space Odissey”• Record Source: “MGM”• Language:EN• Duration: 160 min
An example of the use of theEFG Metadata Schema
• PersonRecord Source: IMDBName: Stanley KubickRegion of Activity: UKSex: maleType of Activity: directorViewBiography
An example of the use of theEFG Metadata Schema
• Title: Poster• Record Source: IMDB• Keywords: Used in Italy• Date Created: 1968
An example of the use of theEFG Metadata Schema
• Title: Review• Record Source: IMDB• Date Created: 1968
An example of the use of theEFG Metadata Schema
• Title: Poster• Record Source: IMDB• Keywords: Used in Italy• Date Created: 1968
• Title: Review• Record Source: IMDB• Date Created: 1968
Linking resources• Title: Poster• Record Source: IMDB• Keywords: Used in Italy• Date Created: 1968
• Title: Review• Record Source: IMDB• Date Created: 1968
was reviewed in
was advertised
directed by
played by
Linking resources
Advanced search for film title
Person page for Peter Lorre
Time schedule
June 2009 Metadata schema finalised
June/July 2009 Test ingests from first 5 archives
August 2009 Testing and further ingests
Autumn 2009 First test ingests from EFG to Europeana possible
Summer 2010 EFG portal public launch
Until August 2011
Consolidating film work and personauthority files, linking objects to
authority records, further ingests
Expected results
• Agreement on common interoperability standards for film archives and cinématques
• Best practices for rights identification
• A single access point to the digitised collections of Europ’s film and audiovisual archives
• Access to Europe’s film heritage through Europeana
Thank you!
Further information can be found at the EFG web site
http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/