television heritage in europeana

Exploring Europe's Television Heritage in Changing Contexts

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Television heritage in Europeana

Terena Networking Conference 2010

Johan OomenNetherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

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This talk

• Europeana• Video Active (2006-2009)• EUscreen (2009-2012)

• Objectives• Development roadmap

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Europeana– Harvests, harmonises and enriches metadata from

aggregators and large content providers – provides a one stop search for culture in Europe• Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects• Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers• Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts• Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts

– Gives back enriched data to the content providers’ via APIs– Provides multilingual interface and eventually multilingual

and semantic search functions

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champs elysees

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• Rhine a.k.a. v1.0- Summer 2010• Content and Functionality

• 10m objects• Some integration of EuropeanaConnect Deliverables• Ingestion, data management API/ wizard• Discovery & Research API

• Danube a.k.a v1.3- Spring 2011• Technology and Architecture

• Object Model• RDF, SKOS, OWL, Etc• Driver? SOA?

Europeana

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Architecture

Data providers

EuropeanaAggregator

metadata

OAI, FTP etc.

Users

metadataOAI

Other data providers(aggregators, portals)

OAI

Search

Metadata

Digital Objects

Other services

API

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Aggregators

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Europeana

Individual institutionsAggregators

Projects Institutions

1. Ebene

2. Ebene

3. Ebene

TEL

BAM

SCRAN

Kultura.hr

EFG APENet

Connect BHL Europe

EUScreen Judaica

MIMO Travel

ATHENA

Local

CARARE

HOPE

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EUscreen in a nutshell• A Best Practice Network funded by the eContentplus

programme of the EU.• 27 partners (including >20 archives).• Providing access to a highly interoperable digitised

collection of television material.• 35.000 items by 2011

• Started in October 2009. Duration: 36 months.• Builds on earlier work (Video Active)

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European media history&

History of Europe

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The consortium

• EUscreen is co-ordinated by the University of Utrecht.

• The consortium is comprised of 27 partners from 19 EU-member states (including Switzerland).

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Earlier work: Video Active

• 10.000 video’s and stills• Contexual articles• Multilingual search, Timeline search• Webshop

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UsersVarious user groups will benefit from the outcome of the project:

• Education and research:– - Primary education– - Secondary education– - Higher education and academic research

• Media professionals• Cultural heritage institutions• General public

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www.videoactive.eu

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Content Selection Policy

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Homepage

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www.euscreen.eu

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Objectives (1)• Developing technical solutions to support

harmonised and highly interoperable audiovisual collections, television in particular.

• Providing the necessary technical solutions for Europeana to support audiovisual content that meets user requirements.

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Objectives (2)• Creating on-demand and user-led access

to television content from broadcasters and archives across the whole of Europe.

• Developing and evaluating four use cases, notably learning, research, leisure/cultural heritage and open culture productions.

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Objectives (3)• Building a community of content providers,

standardisation bodies, and television research partners.

• Design of the EUscreen portal and services in close collaboration with end-users.

• Building and sharing knowledge through the organisation of workshops and conferences.

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Planning 2010

• User requirements: released May• Architecture: released May• Content selection Policy: due this month• Launch: December

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Architecture

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Annotation Process

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Import Tool

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Mappings

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Contact

Europeana slides: many thanks to Max Kaiser, Jill Cousins, Julie Verleyen

joomen@beeldengeluid.nl

@johanoomen

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