Television Heritage in Europeana Drs. Johan Oomen Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

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i2010 Aims: to create a Single European Information Space, which promotes an open and competitive internal market for information society and media services to strengthen innovation and investment in ICT research to support inclusion, better public services and quality of life through the use of ICT. Flagship initiatives Positioning Europeana and Video Active Europeana prototype demoFuture plans: EUscreen BPN

Digital Libraries Initiative Online accessibility, a precondition for maximising the benefits that citizens, researchers and companies can draw from the information. Digitisation of analogue collections for their wider use in the information society. Preservation and storage to ensure that future generations can access the digital material and to prevent precious content being lost. => Recommendation of 24 August 2006 on “The digitisation and online accessibility of cultural content and digital preservation” Positioning Europeana and Video Active Europeana prototype demoFuture plans: EUscreen BPN

eContentplus “A multiannual Community programme to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable.” Creation of the European Digital Library In Competitiveness and Innovation framework Programme Positioning Europeana and Video Active Europeana prototype demoFuture plans: EUscreen BPN

European Digital Library “a common access point to Europe's distributed digital cultural heritage” Positioning Europeana and Video Active Europeana prototype demoFuture plans: EUscreen BPN

U: Euro / P: Proto1 +/ records with digital objects (90 collections) –Including Video Active material!

Backend Technical Framework Web Service API Re-used work of: Bricks, QVIZ, Gallica, AnnoCultor, Cliopatria, The European Library Open Source software: Apache Solr index engine, Spring Framework Use of standards OAI-PMH, OAI-ORE, RDF(s), CIDOC-CRM, etc Positioning Europeana and Video Active Europeana prototype demoFuture plans: EUscreen BPN

CIMEC ABM utvikling MICHAEL ABM Centrum EUBAM MLA Heritage Malta National Portals Apenet DISMARC STERNA TEL EFG Video Active Domain Portals British Museum INA Rijks Museum Beeld en Geluid Cervantes Library Gottingen Univ. Lib. TATE European Archive Independents Athena EDL Local Web Service or API Europeana

Ingest workflow Harvesting of metadata via OAI-PMH or ftp –Video Active uses OAI – Metadata conversion and Semantic harmonisation –e.g. content of type field is heavily language dependent (photograph, foto, etc.) Creation of a surrogate (i.e. keyframe) of the digital object and store it in the framework

Metadata standards poorly applied Missing basic fields title, language, location, year, link to digital object Few have a thumbnail Define elements Positioning Europeana and Video Active Europeana prototype demoFuture plans: EUscreen BPN By: Saltatempo

Added value for content providers Creation of new communities of interest API´s: –Back to websites of contributing parties –Use in education

VA and Europeana 1.Partner in:The Europeana Thematic Network 2.FIAT-IFTA and VA partner INA are represented in EDL Foundation 3.Strong working relations with other projects, notably European Film Gateway, Communia Positioning Europeana and Video Active Europeana prototype demoFuture plans: EUscreen BPN

Euscreen “Exploring Europe’s Television Heritage in Changing Contexts” Thematic Network under eContentPlus –Building on the results of Video Active –Europeana is one of the consortium members Positioning Europeana and Video Active Europeana prototype demoFuture plans: EUscreen BPN

1.Austria 2.Belgium 3.Czech Republic 4.Denmark 5.France 6.Germany 7.Greece 8.Hungary 9.Ireland 10.Italy 11.Netherlands 12.Poland 13.Romania 14.Slovenia 15.Spain 16.Sweden 17.United Kingdom 18.Switzerland 19.Finland EUscreen

EUScreen objectives O1: To develop technical solutions to support harmonized and highly interoperable audiovisual collections; O2: To provide the necessary technical solutions that Europeana needs to be able to support audiovisual content; O3: To create demand and user-led access to television content from broadcasters and archives across the whole of Europe; Positioning Europeana and Video Active Europeana prototype demoFuture plans: EUscreen BPN

EUScreen objectives cont. O4: To develop and evaluate a number of scenarios amongst a range of users, including the research learning and leisure sectors. O5: To build a community (network) of content providers, standardisation bodies and users, and to build and share knowledge among these on the key issues and challenges relevant to the audiovisual heritage domain and beyond.

Archives Technology providers Research organisations your logo here Associate partners

`Towards universal access to all knowledge´ Brewster Kahle A global information space Syntactic, linguistic and semantic INTEROPERABILITY Open, simple and flexible STANDARDS Local National EU WORLD

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Datamodel requires a semantically consistent metadata schema Usefulness of facets depends on control and harmonisation of their values Especially a consistent use of temporal descriptions, e.g. timex. Semantic interoperability depends on Multilingual disambiguation Identification of named entitities and events Availability of local thesauri, ontologies and controlled vocabularies Positioning Europeana and Video Active Europeana prototype demoFuture plans: EUscreen BPN