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VIDEO ACTIVE. Johan Oomen (Beeld en Geluid,NL) - Alexander Hecht (ORF, A). Creating Access to European Television History IASA Conference, Riga September 18th, 2007. Goal. Provide access to television heritage

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  1. VIDEO ACTIVE Johan Oomen (Beeld en Geluid,NL) - Alexander Hecht (ORF, A) Creating Access to European Television History IASA Conference, Riga September 18th, 2007

  2. Goal • Provide access to television heritage • Reflecting the cultural and historical similiarities and differences of television across the European Union • User groups • Education • General Public • Cultural Heritage • Creative industries

  3. Main challenges • Technology • Digitisation projects are launched. However, technical and metadata standards differ between organisations • Rights • Complex issue due to legislation, no harmonisation and publishing sometimes only allowed within the national borders • Content sources • Descriptions of the original source and its context seldom to be found • language barriers • Setting up selection criteria

  4. User requirements • Online visitors: • …expect the complete picture (all possible content connected to their query: video, images, webpages, books) • …use general search engines as the starting point for most online searches • …expect free access to low-res material • …want to included material in their blogs etc. and share them with others

  5. …and what archives can offer • Audiovisual archives: • …have expert knowledge of their collection. • …have control over the catalogue with high quality metadata • …are broker for reuse • …can provide content in different context, meeting specific user needs way better than general purpose sites • …and naturally, have the content

  6. The Project • eContentplus programme • 36 months • Start date: September 2006 • Launch first version of the portal: November 2007 • Proven technology: Birth of TV • 10.000 items by 2009

  7. The consortium 14 members from 10 countries 11 content providers / 10 languages

  8. Associate members • VRT (B) • Moving Images Communications (UK)

  9. Advisory board • IASA • FIAT • EBU • BFI • Joanneum Research • University of Madrid

  10. Content selection strategy • Framework designed in collaboration with academics • historical axis (e.g. technology developements) • themes and genres (e.g. sports, game shows

  11. Thesaurus module Multilinguality Contribution application Metadata and transcoding Backend

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

  13. First screen design

  14. Why join? • Highly visible window to your collection • Multilingual access to your holdings • Revenue from increased sales

  15. www.videoactive.eu

  16. Prof. Dr. Sonja de Leeuw (Project Coordinator) Utrecht University Sonja.deLeeuw@let.uu.nl Johan Oomen MA (Technical Director) Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Joomen@beeldengeluid.nl Join Video Active! please contact

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