1. Presentation of the Project

2. Why a European Film Gateway?
Partners
Goal
EFG & Europeana
Organisation of work
Workpackages and activities
Expected results

3. Why a European Film Gateway?
Multiple digitisation projects and repositories of digital collections
Need for common registry of digital holdings
Need for common interoperability standards
Flickr, youtube, etc. influence user expectations, digital libraries initiatives are on their way  Where are the film archives?
Trans-domain approach of Europeana
Web-based access means international (or world-wide) access  Rights issue

4. Partners
Deutsches Filminstitut - DIF e. V. (Coordinator), Frankfurt Association des Cinémathèques Européennes Frankfurt/Brussels Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do cinema, Lisbon Cineteca del Comune di Bologna CNR-ISTI, Pisa Det Danske Filminstitut, Copenhagen Europeana Foundation, The Hague Eremo srl, Cupramontana FernUniversität Hagen Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna Istituto Luce, Rome La Cinémathèque Française, Paris Lichtspiel - Kinemathek Bern Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybés Archyvas, Vilnius Magyar Nemzeti Filmarchívum, Budapest Národní Filmový Archiv, Prague Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo Nederlands Filmmuseum, Amsterdam reelport GmbH, Cologne Tainiothiki tis Ellados, Athens

5. Goal To make the collections accessible through a common access point
In order to do so, EFG will:
Define quality: Specify minimum rules for metadata structure and syntax
Define the desired functionalities of the system
Make databases of collections and filmographies harvestable (OAI-PMH)
Agree on content formats (esp. moving images)
Enrich content (indexing and annotating)
Clear rights where necessary

6. Objectives

7. Objectives: Infrastructure

8. EFG & Europeana
The European Film Gateway will be linked to Europeana
Europeana ( provides integrated access to digital treasures from Europe’s museums, archives, audio-visual archives and libraries.

9. Organisation of work WP 8 Project management Administrative Board
WP 7 Legal and organisational governance, Sustainability planning
WP 6 Dissemination and networking
WP 5 IPR management and administration
WP 4 Service implementation and operation, web platform
WP 3 Content enrichment and semantic interoperability
WP 2 Technical interoperability and access
WP 1 User needs and service requirements

10. WP 1: User needs and service requirements
WP Leader: Filmarchiv Austria
Activities
Workshop on system requirements
Functional specifications for the EFG service
User survey after launch of the portal

11. WP 2: Technical Interoperability & Access
WP Leader: CNR-ISTI
Activities: Technical solutions for EFG
Common interoperability schema
Metadata harvesting
Link to Europeana
Guidelines for inclusion of new archives

12. WP 3: Content enrichment & semantic interoperability
WP Leader: Det Danske Filminstitut
Activities
Cataloguing guidelines
Content enrichment (all content providers):
Consolidation of filmographic information
Indexing objects

13. WP 4: Service Implementation and operation, Web platform
WP Leader: Deutsches Filminstitut
Activities
Develop the΄face‘ of the EFG service in co-operation with a subcontractor – web site design and content management system
Workshop on digital storage and retrieval
Hosting&streaming infrastructure (reelport)

14. WP 5: IPR management and administration
WP Leader: Nederlands Filmmuseum
Activities:
Evaluation of copyright regulations
Guidelines for rights clearance
Rights clearance (all content providers)

15. WP 6: Dissemination and Networking
WP Leader: Eremo srl – support by Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE)
Activities:
Maintainance of project web site
Dissemination materials (poster, leaflet, ppt, newsletter, etc.)
Report of all project dissemination activities
Local workshops
Database of audiovisual stakeholders

16. WP 7: Legal and organisational governance, Sustainability planning
WP Leader: Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE)
Activities
Finding and implementing solutions for organisational and financial sustainability

17. WP 8: Project co-ordination
WP Leader: Deutsches Filminstitut
Activities
Liaison with European Commission
Activity reporting
Financial administration

18. Expected results
Agreement on common interoperability standards for film archives and cinémathèques
Best practices for rights’ clearance and IPR management of cinematographic works
A single access point to the digitised collections of Europe’s film and audio-visual archives
Access to Europe’s film heritage through Europeana

19. The end