AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVAL ACCESS PROJECT PROFESSOR JOHN ELLIS MEDIA ARTS ROYAL HOLLOWAY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
THE PROJECT 30,000 ITEMS OF AUDIO-VISUAL CONTENT FROM THE ARCHIVES OF EUROPE’S BROADCASTERS SEARCHABLE IN NINE LANGUAGES STREAMED TO ANY USER AVAILABLE TO ALL
Connected to: Funded by the European Commission within the eContentplus programme THE TEAM Consortium: - 28 Partners - Broadcasters, archives, technologists, academic partners and educationalists - 20 Content Providers - 19 Countries Synergy with Europeana (TV aggregator) EUscreen Best Practice Network Budget €4.3m (total €5.85m) 36 months ( )
Archives Technology providers Research organisations Associate partners
THE STORY VideoActive (2006-9) RHUL proposed by BBC, ‘recognised’ by U.Utrecht RHUL’s Videoactive role: organise content categories, uploading, commentary EUscreen: follow-on project RHUL brings in BUFVC as ‘metadata police’ One-to-one and group discussions on principles Interface between content providers and technology providers
Research or administration? Speed of slowest Creating a shared vision: misunderstanding the project / mistaken assumptions Promises not kept / work not done Technology provider problem (when isn’t there one?) Endless telcos and s The role of the English language
The money eContentplus programme “a multiannual Community programme to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable” 80% EU, 20% institutional contribution ‘Person hours’ ‘allowable expenses’... But no overheads Currency exchange gains (or losses) Pays for two colleagues... And some more...