www.filmarchives-online.eu

MEDIA Plus Pilot Project MIDAS (2006-2009)

• The European film heritage is kept in many different archives across Europe.

• Locating archival films can be a complex and costly process.

• Language barriers and the scarcity of information opportunities are complicating access.

filmarchives online

• … is the result of the MIDAS project (Moving Image Database for Access and Re-use of European Film Collections).

• … provides access to moving image collection information of 18 European archives

• … allows the search in content descriptions and other metadata of archival databases.

• … focuses non-fiction material.

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Participating Institutions

British Film Institute (London)

Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv (Berlin)

Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique (Brussels)

Cineteca di Bologna

DEFA Stiftung (Berlin)

Deutsche Kinemathek (Berlin)

Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF (Frankfurt)

EYE Film Institute (Amsterdam)

Fondazione Cineteca Italiana (Milan)

IWF Knowledge and Media (Göttingen)

LICHTSPIEL-Kinemathek Bern

Magyar Nemzeti Digitalis Archivum (Budapest)

Národní Filmový Archiv (Prague)

Nasjonalbiblioteket (Oslo)

Reelport.com (Cologne) [associated]

Slovenska Kinoteka (Ljubljana)

Tainiothiki tis Ellados (Athens)

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Finding Moving Images in European Collections

Number of film works 28.000

...under no. of film titles 50.000

Number of film copies 58.000

Number of content descriptions 41.000

Content descriptions in English 18.000

Content descriptions in German 15.000

Content descriptions in Dutch 2.200

Content descriptions in Italian 1.800

Content descriptions in Lithuanian 1.400

Content descriptions in Czech 1.200

Content descriptions in French 500

Other 900

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MEDIA Plus Pilot Project MIDAS (2006-2009)

Still…

• …most film materials which can be found in filmarchives-online are not yet digitised

• …information about rights holders is scarce (at best)• …information about terms of use and available licenses

for individual titles is scarce (at best)• …users need to identify, write and talk to various

individuals and organisations before they can use the content

• …progress in standardisation and documentation in film archives during the last 4 years is not reflected on filmarchives-online