1. Creating Access to Europe’s Television Heritage FIAT/IFTA World Conference Madrid :: October 2006 Prof. Dr. Sonja de Leeuw (Project coordinator - Utrecht University) Johan Oomen MA (Sound and Vision)

2. Why?  Television = a cultural space  European dimension hardly explored  Access remains restricted because of -Technology -Rights issues -Content sources

3. Main Objectives  Stimulating use and re-use of a huge body of digitised television archive content consisting of selected, comparable programme material  Accompanying the selected content by knowledge-based descriptions  Presenting the selected content using new and existing metadata

4. Supporting Objectives  Providing targeted, enriched access to heterogeneous television collections  Establish a flexible technical platform  Serving as a platform for all heritage organisations with moving image content  Enabling in-depth academic research into the history of television in Europe  Advancing active engagement with the cultural memory of Europe  Stimulating awareness of the role television played in the construction of cultural identities in Europe.

6. Advisory Board  FIAT/IFTA  International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA)  European Broadcasting Union  British Film Institute  Joanneum Research  University of Madrid

7. European Television History Network  Launched at FIAT/IFTA 2004  Emphasising the need for close co-operation between archives and academics  Advising on the content selection strategy  Developing highly relevant case studies in European television history (comparative and cross-cultural)  Remaining sensitive to what the different archives hold: again: close co-operation!

8. BIRTH Television Archive www.birth-of-tv.org

10. Backend Thesaurus module Multilinguality Contribution application Metadata and transcoding

11. Portal Open Archives Initiative The European Library Workflow ThesauriX Contribution Tool

12. Milestones  M1 User requirements specified and framework for content selection developed (March 2007)  M2 Launch of Video Active portal Version 1 (assessment and refinement) (November 2007)  M3 Launch of Video Active portal Version 2 (October 2008)

13. Participate!  Benefits: Exposure Critical mass Multilingual International collaboration Exploitation opportunity High-res file transfer Collaboration with scholars

14. www.videoactive.eu

15. A still from the series Floris (NL, 1968) Prof. Dr. Sonja de Leeuw (Project coordinator - Utrecht University) Johan Oomen MA (Technical Director - Sound and Vision)