1. AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVAL ACCESS PROJECT PROFESSOR JOHN ELLIS MEDIA ARTS ROYAL HOLLOWAY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

2. 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

3. Connected to: Funded by the European Commission within the eContentplus programme www.euscreen.eu 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 (2009-2012)

4. Archives Technology providers Research organisations Associate partners

7. 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 2009-12 RHUL brings in BUFVC as ‘metadata police’ One-to-one and group discussions on principles Interface between content providers and technology providers

8. 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 emails The role of the English language

9. 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...