Creating Access to Europe’s Television Heritage
FIAT/IFTA World ConferenceMadrid :: October 2006
Prof. Dr. Sonja de Leeuw (Project coordinator - Utrecht University)
Johan Oomen MA (Sound and Vision)
Why?
Television = a cultural space European dimension hardly explored Access remains restricted because of -Technology-Rights issues-Content sources
Main Objectives
Stimulating use and re-use of a huge body of digitised television archive content consisting of selected, comparable programme material
Accompanying the selected content by knowledge-based descriptions
Presenting the selected content using new and existing metadata
Supporting Objectives
Providing targeted, enriched access to heterogeneous television collections
Establish a flexible technical platform Serving as a platform for all heritage organisations
with moving image content Enabling in-depth academic research into the
history of television in Europe Advancing active engagement with the cultural
memory of Europe Stimulating awareness of the role television played
in the construction of cultural identities in Europe.
Advisory Board
FIAT/IFTA International Association of Sound and
Audiovisual Archives (IASA) European Broadcasting Union British Film Institute Joanneum Research University of Madrid
European Television History Network
Launched at FIAT/IFTA 2004 Emphasising the need for close co-operation
between archives and academics Advising on the content selection strategy Developing highly relevant case studies in
European television history (comparative and cross-cultural)
Remaining sensitive to what the different archives hold: again: close co-operation!
Backend
Thesaurus moduleMultilinguality
Contribution applicationMetadata and transcoding
Portal
National Media Server
Open Archives Initiative The European LibraryWorkflow
ThesauriX
Legacy Database
Contribution Tool
Milestones
M1 User requirements specified and framework for content selection developed (March 2007)
M2 Launch of Video Active portal Version 1 (assessment and refinement) (November 2007)
M3 Launch of Video Active portal Version 2 (October 2008)
Participate!
Benefits: Exposure
Critical mass Multilingual International collaboration
Exploitation opportunity High-res file transfer
Collaboration with scholars
www.videoactive.eu
A still from the series Floris (NL, 1968)
Prof. Dr. Sonja de Leeuw (Project coordinator - Utrecht University)
Johan Oomen MA (Technical Director - Sound and Vision)
