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VIDEO ACTIVE. Alexander Hecht (ORF, A) – Richard Wright (BBC, UK). Creating Access to European Television History Project Update FIAT World Conference, Lisbon October 15th, 2007. Goal. Giving access to television heritage

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VIDEO ACTIVE

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  1. VIDEO ACTIVE Alexander Hecht (ORF, A) – Richard Wright (BBC, UK) Creating Access to European Television History Project Update FIAT World Conference, Lisbon October 15th, 2007

  2. Goal • Giving 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. The Project • eContentplus programme • 36 months • Start date: September 2006 • Launch first version of the portal: November 2007 • Proven technology: Birth of TV (http://www.birth-of-TV.org ) • 10.000 items by 2009

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

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

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

  7. Content selection strategy • Framework designed in collaboration with academics (London conference April 07) • historical axis (e.g. technology developements) • themes and genres (e.g. sports, game shows, education, celebrity, TV on TV, National Holidays, etc.)

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

  9. First screen design

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

  11. www.videoactive.eu

  12. 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

  13. Who Needs VideoActive?(now that we have You Tube) Or – the INs and OUTs of context and competence in online collections • IN: Context – putting all the relevant information into the collection • OUT: Competence – metadata and tools to ensure users find what’s in the collection

  14. Providing Context Three aspects of the full picture: • A framework for an item • For search (including browsing) and for presentation • Information about an item • All the components and all the metadata • Relationships • Inward- what points to the item? • Outward- what does the item point to?

  15. Context: A framework for an item For search (browsing) and for presentation • Historical • Social • When and where (and who) • Technological • Search: for any part of the context • Browse: within a context • Find: results presented with context

  16. Context30.10.36

  17. Information about an “item” • All the components and all the metadata • Storyboard, summary, audio, video • Plus catalogue data: who, when, where, what … • Publicity still (and other stills) • Short articles (about the context) • Golden age of television drama • Development of news presentation formats

  18. Relationships • Inward- what points to the item? • Outward- what does the item point to?

  19. What points to “coronation”? • Royalty • Early television • 1930’s; 1950’s (in UK) • Outside broadcast • Westminster Abbey • Names: participants, presenters • “Coronation Street” ??

  20. What does Coronation point to? • Participants • Location • Time period • “Coronation Street” • And – points a UK researcher to “other coronations”, and how they were presented by television

  21. “Creating Access” Video Active ‘creates access’ – but Video Active has a context Projects of all sizes • Individual institutions • National • European • Global • Universal! You Tube, and why it matters • what it does well • what it doesn’t even try to do

  22. individual archive access • ranging from the smallest to the 15,000 online hours of the Institute National de l’Audiovisuel www.ina.fr/archivespourtous • Video Active has made a list of over 100 such projects: del.icio.us/VideoActive • Is unified access to all these individual online collections possible? • Video Active collects only a sample • Of the institutions, and of the content of each

  23. national projects • addressing the audiovisual heritage, notably the Dutch “Images for the Future” • Pictures Forever • Common ‘pot of money’ for national audiovisual content • Goal: create access, create business • By getting the material where public and private enterprises can use it • In particular: education

  24. European coordination projects • Digital libraries: • TEL: The European Library; union catalogue • EDL: European Digital Library edlproject.eu/Video Active:audiovisual content for EDL • Digital preservation: • Caspar: OAIS; scientific and artistic • Planets: DL tools planets-project.eu/ • DPE = Digital Preservation Europe • digitalpreservationeurope.eu/

  25. Projects with a global view Audiovisual preservation and access: • FIAT – UNESCO Archives at Risk (there are other ‘endangered archive’ projects, but not primarily for audiovisual content: UNESCO – www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm British Library “Endangered Archives” www.bl.uk/endangeredarchives )

  26. Online video in general: • YouTube: • where people can put anything • and nobody can find it • BUT • 95% of all YouTuve video is viewed every day! • YouTube has an excellend ‘contribution tool’, and provided free hosting • So: just add metadata!! (= Video Active)

  27. Thank You • 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 • alexander.hecht@orf.at • richard.wright@bbc.co.uk

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