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Unlocking Europe's Television Archives: Preserving Cultural Memory

This project aims to stimulate the use and re-use of digitized television archive content, accompanied by knowledge-based descriptions and new metadata. By providing enriched access to television collections and serving as a platform for heritage organizations, it enables in-depth academic research into the history of television in Europe and raises awareness of television's role in cultural identity construction. The project will last for 36 months and involve multiple European audiovisual archives.

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Unlocking Europe's Television Archives: Preserving Cultural Memory

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  1. Dr. Alexander Hecht (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF) Johan Oomen MA (Sound and Vision ~ technical director) Vienna, EDL Workshop November 28 2006

  2. Background • 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 large 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 • Advancing active engagement with the cultural memory of Europe, in close collaboration with related initiatives, such as The European Library

  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 • Stimulating awareness of the role television played in the construction of cultural identities in Europe.

  5. Dimensions • 4.5 million hours • 10 languages • English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Greek, Hungarian, Catalan, Danish and Swedish • Duration of the project: 36 months Other European audiovisual archives will join

  6. Advisory Board • FIAT/IFTA International Federation of Television Archives • International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives • 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 Archivewww.birth-of-tv.org

  9. Architecture

  10. Thesaurus module Multilinguality Contribution application Metadata and transcoding Backend

  11. Portal Workflow (client based scenario) ThesauriX Contribution Tool

  12. Mapping tool (Technical University of Athens) legacy schema Video Active schema Mapping tool (creates conversion script) • Descriptive metadata: Dublin Core • Technical metadata: MPEG-7

  13. 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)

  14. SWOT analysis

  15. www.videoactive.eu

  16. Dr. Alexander Hecht ~ alexander.hecht@orf.at (WP3 leader – Austrian Broadcasting corporation) Johan Oomen MA ~ joomen@beeldengeluid.nl (Technical Director - Sound and Vision)

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