creating access to europe’s television heritage vienna, edl workshop november 28 2006 dr....
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Main Objectives Stimulating use and re-use of a large 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 Advancing active engagement with the cultural memory of Europe, in close collaboration with related initiatives, such as The European LibraryTRANSCRIPT
Creating Access to Europe’s Television Heritage
Vienna, EDL WorkshopNovember 28 2006
Dr. Alexander Hecht(Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF)
Johan Oomen MA (Sound and Vision ~ technical director)
Background
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 large 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
Advancing active engagement with the cultural memory of Europe, in close collaboration with related initiatives, such as The European Library
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 Stimulating awareness of the role television
played in the construction of cultural identities in Europe.
Dimensions
4.5 million hours 10 languages
English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Greek, Hungarian, Catalan, Danish and Swedish
Duration of the project: 36 months
Other European audiovisual archives
will join
Advisory Board
FIAT/IFTA International Federation of Television Archives
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
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!
Internet
CustomersBroadcast Archive
Legacy Database
NationalMedia Server
Portal Provider
Portal ServerContent Management
Portal ContentCatalogue Database
Firewall
Contribution Tool
XMLWebService
Architecture
Backend
Thesaurus moduleMultilinguality
Contribution applicationMetadata and transcoding
Workflow (client based scenario)
PortalThesauriXContribution Tool
Legacy DatabaseNational Media Server
Mapping tool (Technical University of Athens)
Legacy Database
Video Active schemalegacy schema
Mapping tool(creates conversion
script)
•Descriptive metadata: Dublin Core•Technical metadata: MPEG-7
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)
SWOT analysis
Strengts Weakness1. Offering video content2. Rich metadata3. Existing community
and tools
1. Limited domain (television history)
Opportunities Threats1. Interoperability with
other collections (new services)
2. Use the material in education
3. Use technology of other projects
1. IPR will possibly limit the content available
2. Other suppliers of the same content
www.videoactive.eu
Dr. Alexander Hecht ~ [email protected](WP3 leader – Austrian Broadcasting corporation)
Johan Oomen MA ~ [email protected](Technical Director - Sound and Vision)