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Searching and browsing film archives – The European Film Gateway approach. Cultural Heritage 2009 Cairo, Egypt 6-8 December 2009. Pasquale Savino – ISTI-CNR Franca Debole – ISTI-CNR Georg Eckes - DIF. Initial Situation: Why a European Film Gateway?.
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Searching and browsing film archives – The European Film Gateway approach Cultural Heritage 2009 Cairo, Egypt 6-8 December 2009 Pasquale Savino – ISTI-CNR Franca Debole – ISTI-CNR Georg Eckes - DIF
Initial Situation:Why a European Film Gateway? • growing number of digitisation projects and repositories of digital collections need for a registry of collections, items and film-specific authority files on a trans-institutional, trans-national level • Lack of common standards for database & record structures suitable for the needs of film archives need for common interoperability standards • flickr, youTube etc. influence user expectations, digital libraries initiatives are on their way challenge for film archives to go along • lack of knowledge and best practices when it comes to dealing with IPR issues in the context of web-based access need to join experiences
Goals and Objectives:What is EFG supposed to achieve? • build a „digital showcase“ for collections of Europe‘s film archives and cinematheques • Moving images: Films and film clips, trailers etc. • Images: Posters, images, stills, drawings etc. • Text material: Reviews, correspondance, censoship documents etc. • Sound material: Interviews etc. • make collections accessible through a common access point • create a registry of digital objects and filmographic authority records • link Europe‘s film archives and cinemathequeswith Europeana and operate as an “Aggregator” for Europeana • make more than 700.000 photographs, posters, texts, audio documents, films and film clips covering more than 100 years of film history accessible by 2011
Objectives • Defining a metadata schema which is able to describe the complexity of EFG data structures, relationships, and content and that can support search and browsing capabilities • Joining archives and filmographies and support export of complex metadata structures (OAI-PMH) • Cleaning and consolidating data from heterogeneous sources • Enriching content (tagging archival resources and filmographic editing) • Clearing rights where necessary
Partner Institutions:Who is behind EFG? Providers of Content Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF (coordinator) Frankfurt DEU Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do cinema Lisbon PRT Cineteca del Comune di Bologna Bologna ITA Det Danske Filminstitut Copenhagen DNK Filmarchiv Austria Vienna AUT Istituto Luce Rome ITA La Cinémathèque Française Paris FRA Lichtspiel - Kinemathek Bern Bern CHE Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybés Archyvas Vilnius LTU Magyar Nemzeti Filmarchívum Budapest HUN Národní Filmový Archiv Prague CZE Nasjonalbiblioteket Oslo NOR Nederlands Filmmuseum Amsterdam NLD Tainiothiki tis Ellados Athens GRC Providers of Infrastructures, Services, and Technologies Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (initiator)Frankfurt/Brussels DEU/BEL CNR-ISTI Pisa ITA EDL Foundation The Hague NLD Eremo srl Cupramontana ITA FernUniversität Hagen Hagen DEU reelport GmbH Cologne DEU 20 institutions | 13 countries | 11 languages
Definition of a common interoperability schema • Approach • The schema was designed taking into account the specific application scenario • Looking at existing models, in order to take into account previous experiences and to simplify the schema mapping • The model is based on the User needs defined in EFG • Maintain a compatibility with ESE in order to simplify the ingestion process into Europeana
The EFG Metadata Schema • An AV Creation Corresponds to a Cinematographic work as defined in EN 15907. • Main elements: • Identifier • Title • Record Source • Identifying Title • Country of Reference • Production Year • Keywords • Description • Note • UserTag • ViewFilmography
The EFG Metadata Schema • An AV Manifestation is the physical embodiment of an audio visual creation. For example, it may contain the different national versions, different productions of the same AV Creation. • Main elements: • Identifier • Title • Record Source • Language • Dimension • Duration • Coverage • Format • Rights holder • Provenance • Thumbnail • Note
The EFG Metadata Schema • An Item contains a reference to the external resource. For a single AV Manifestation we may have several Items stored in different archives. • Main elements: • Identifier • IsShownBy • IsShownAt • Format • Provider • URI • Country • Note
The EFG Metadata Schema • Examples of Non AV Creations are pictures, photos, correspondence, books or periodicals • Main elements: • Identifier • Title • Record Source • Keywords • Description • Date Created • Language • Note • UserTag
The EFG Metadata Schema • A Non AV Manifestation is the physical embodiment of an Non AV Creation. • Main elements: • Identifier • Title • Record Source • Type • Language • Date • Digital Format • Physical Format • Geographic Scope • Coverage • Rights holder • Provenance • Thumbnail • Note
The EFG Metadata Schema • An Agent is an Entity that can perform an action. • There are three agent types: • Person • Identifier, Record Source, Name, Date, Region of Activity, Place, Sex, Type of Activity, Note, ViewBiography • Corporate Body • Group
Publication event • E.g. a public screening, broadcast or a public release on a physical distribution medium or online • Elements: Identifier, Record Source, Type, Date, Regional Scope, Place, Event Name, Exhibition organizer, Publisher, Access conditions, Note • Decision event • An event in which a manifestation of a creation was evaluated by a censorship body or an accredited rating agency • IPR Registration • Award • Production event • Examples are dates and locations where castings took place or dates and locations of shootings or other recordings The EFG Metadata Schema
An example of the use of theEFG Metadata Schema • Title: “2001: A Space Odissey” • Record Source: IMDB • Identifying Title: “2001: A Space Odissey” • Country of Reference: • Production Year: 1968 • Keywords: Science Fiction, HAL, intelligent computer • Description: “Mankind finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest”
An example of the use of theEFG Metadata Schema • Title: “2001: A Space Odissey” • Record Source: IMDB • Identifying Title: “2001: A Space Odissey” • Country of Reference: • Production Year: 1968 • Keywords: Science Fiction, HAL, intelligent computer • Description: “Mankind finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest” • Title: “2001: A Space Odissey” • Record Source: “MGM” • Language:EN • Duration: 160 min • Title: “2001: OdisseanelloSpazio” • Record Source: “CinetecaNazionale” • Language: IT • Duration: 141 min
An example of the use of theEFG Metadata Schema • Person • Record Source: IMDB • Name: Stanley Kubick • Region of Activity: UK • Sex: male • Type of Activity: director • ViewBiography
An example of the use of theEFG Metadata Schema • Title: Poster • Record Source: IMDB • Keywords: Used in Italy • Date Created: 1968
An example of the use of theEFG Metadata Schema • Title: Review • Record Source: IMDB • Date Created: 1968
An example of the use of theEFG Metadata Schema • Title: Poster • Record Source: IMDB • Keywords: Used in Italy • Date Created: 1968 • Title: Review • Record Source: IMDB • Date Created: 1968
Linking resources • Title: Poster • Record Source: IMDB • Keywords: Used in Italy • Date Created: 1968 wasadvertised wasreviewed in • Title: Review • Record Source: IMDB • Date Created: 1968 directedby playedby
Expected results • Agreement on common interoperability standards for film archives and cinématques • Best practices for rights identification • A single access point to the digitised collections of Europ’s film and audiovisual archives • Access to Europe’s film heritage through Europeana
Thank you! • Further information can be found • at the EFG web site • http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/