1. Co-funded by the Community Programme ICT- PSP
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Project presentation
Co-funded by the Community Programme ICT- PSP

2. Content EFG1914: What is it about?
Consortium: Archives and further partners
Structure: How is the work organised?
Related projects

3. "Heimkehr", DE 1928. Quelle: Murnau-Stiftung, Deutsches Filminstitut
EFG1914: What is it about?
"Heimkehr", DE Quelle: Murnau-Stiftung, Deutsches Filminstitut

4. Key figures EU Programme: ICT-PSP, Pilot type B
Reference number:
Start: 15 February 2012
Total costs: €
EUR Community contribution
Duration: 24 months
25 partners including 20 film archives & cinémathèques
Follow-up project of EFG – The European Film Gateway

5. Objectives Digitisation of 654 hours of film
Digitisation of ca film-related objects
Making the digitised content available online through the European Film Gateway and Europeana
Adapting the EFG aggregation system and portal to the needs of EFG1914
Build a virtual exhibition around themes of WWI, based on the EFG infrastructure

7. Consortium: Archives and other partners
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8. 20 archives, providers of content
Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF, Frankfurt (co-ordinator)
Arhiva Nationala de Filme, Bucharest
Centre National du cinéma et de l’Image animée, Bois d’Arcy
Cinecittà Luce, Rome
Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels
Cineteca di Bologna, Bologna
Det Danske Filminstitut, Copenhagen
Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin
Estonian Film Archive, Talinn
EYE Filminstituut Nederland, Amsterdam
Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna
Filmoteca Espanola, Madrid
Fondazione Cineteca Italiana, Milan
Imperial War Museum, London
IVAC, Valencia
Jugoslovenska Kinoteka, Belgrade
MaNDA, Budapest
Národní filmový archiv, Prague
Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo
Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna

9. 5 further partners: providers of infrastructures, services and technologies
Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (Dissemination)
Athena Research and Innovation Center (Virtual Exhibition conceptualization and implementation)
CNR-ISTI (Adapting the EFG information space, implementing technical mappings)
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS (Digitisation, digital preservation consultancy)
Reelport (Hosting & Streaming of videos for archives which do not want to do this on their own servers)

10. Structure: how is the work organised?
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11. 9 Work packages WP No Title WP leader WP 1
Content selection and monitoring
DFI (Copenhagen)
WP 2
Digitisation planning, preparation and best practice
WP 3
Transfer and mastering film to digital format
EYE (Amsterdam)
WP 4
Ingest, encoding and access
CRB (Brussels)
WP 5
Digitisation and delivery of non-film material
DIF (Frankfurt)
WP 6
Interoperability with EFG and Europeana
CNR-ISTI (Pisa)
WP 7
Virtual Exhibition
Athena RC (Athens)
WP 8
Dissemination and awareness
ACE (Frankfurt/Brussels)
WP 9
Co-ordination and management

12. Workflow

13. WP1: Content selection and monitoring
WP Leader: Det Danske Filminstitut
Main tasks:
Content selection plan
Digitisation plan and schedule
Monitoring the digitisation progress

14. WP2: Digitisation planning, preparation and best practice
WP Leader: Det Danske Filminstitut, supported by Fraunhofer IIS
Main tasks:
Physical selection of film elements
Identification of copyright and orphan works
Workshop on digitisation best practice
Specification of formats and processes for digitisation, handling and encoding of the digital data

15. WP3: Transfer and mastering film to digital format
WP Leader: EYE Film Instituut Nederland, supported by Fraunhofer IIS
Main tasks:
Tender for transfer of film to video master
Physical preparation of films for transfer
Transfer of film to digital master / transfer oversight

16. WP4: Ingest, encoding and access
WP Leader: Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique
Main tasks:
Implementation of ingest & encoding hardware and software
Training in ingestion and encoding
Encoding of uncompressed digital master files
Metadata wrapping/tagging (task leader DIF)
Batch re-encoding and delivery of distribution files

17. WP5: Digitisation and delivery of non-film material
WP Leader: Deutsches Filminstitut
Main tasks:
Physical selection and preparation of non-AV source material
rights clearance
Scanning and re-formatting
Ingest and indexing

18. WP6: Interoperability with EFG and Europeana
WP Leader: CNR-ISTI, supported by Deutsches Filminstitut
Main tasks:
OAI-PMH exports: partner archive upgrades
Extension of EFG common schema and definition of mappings
Extension of the EFG aggregation system
Metadata ingest

19. WP7: Virtual exhibition
WP Leader: Athena Research and Innovation Center
Main tasks:
Virtual exhibition concept and specification
Technical implementation
Curation and editorial work

20. WP8: Dissemination and awareness
WP Leader: Association des Cinémathèques Européennes
Main tasks:
Overall coordination and planning of dissemination activity
Maintaining project website and presentation
Concertation with Europeana
General concertation

21. WP9: Co-ordination and management
WP Leader: Deutsches Filminstitut
Main tasks:
Financial co-ordination
Internal consortium management and co-ordination
Overall monitoring
Liaision with the European Commission

22. Related WWI projects
Europeana : collects memorabilia and stories from the period of the Great War
Europeana collections : digital collection of material from national libraries about WWI

23. EFG1914 Project website www.project.efg1914.eu

24. Contact efg@deutsches-filminstitut.de
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