A Gateway to Film Heritage in Europe

1. A Gateway to FilmHeritage in Europe EUScreen Workshop Mykonos, Greece 23/24 June 2010 Julia Welter Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF welter@deutsches-filminstitut.de Franca Debole ISTI- CNR franca.debole@isti.cnr.it

2. General facts • Initiated by ACE • Funded by eContentPlus • Co-ordinated by Deutsches Filminstitut • Start September 2008 • Runtime 3 years • Euopeana aggregator project

3. Partners • 21 Partners from 15 European Countries • 15 Content providers (= film archives & cinémathèques) • 3 Technology providers and providers of technological infrastructure • 3 Other partners (Dissemination, Co-ordination with EDL, Sustainability planning)

4. Consortium: Archives FinnishAudiovisual Archive National Library Norway Danish Film Institute Lithuanian State Archives Eye Film Institute CinémathèqueFrancaise Deutsches Filminstitut Czech National Film Archive Hungarian Film Archive Filmarchiv Austria Lichtspiel Bern CinematecaPortuguesa Cineteca di Bologna Cinecitta Luce Greek Film Archive

5. Initial Situation • Need for central access point for growing digital repositories • need for a registry of collections, items and film-specific authority files on a trans-institutional, trans-national level • Need of common standards for database & record structures suitable for the needs of film archives • Need to build knowledge and best practices when it comes to dealing with IPR issues in the context of web-based access • Need to face growing user expectations

6. 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, correspondence, censorship documents etc. • Sound material: Interviews etc. • Registry of digital objects and authority records (works of film, persons) • Agreement on common interoperability standards for film archives and cinémathèques • Best practices for rights identification

7. Content Selection • No content selection strategy • EFG to use already existing digital objects • EFG mainly to rely on material that has already been rights cleared • Narrowing down content to themes for EFG would mean extremely little content to present • EFG will give access to ca. 700.000 items

8. Current state of things • Data ingestion since Aug 2009 ongoing • Data delivered to Europeana • Front-end development started Jan 2010 • First prototype version internally: Jul 2010 • Internal testing and bug-fixing until Sept • Public launch scheduled for Oct 2010 • Consolidating film work and person authority files, linking objects to authority records, further ingests until Aug 2011

9. EFG Web portal: Design draft Start page

10. EFG Web portal: Design draft Search results page

11. EFG Web portal: Design draft Detailed Search Result Screen

12. Metadata interoperability & CWS • Cinematographic Works Standard (CWS) partially applied in EFG • Current drafts and news: www.filmstandards.org • Part 1 specifies a minimum set of information elements for the unambiguous identification of film works.Primary goal not to generate new metadata • Part 2 is a specification for structuring machine-processable metadata about cinematographic works. This part of the standard can be used as a basis for data exchange between existing catalogue systems.

13. The EFG Metadata Schema

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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”

22. 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

23. 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

24. An example of the use of theEFG Metadata Schema • Title: Poster • Record Source: IMDB • Keywords: Used in Italy • Date Created: 1968

25. An example of the use of theEFG Metadata Schema • Title: Review • Record Source: IMDB • Date Created: 1968

26. 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

27. 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

28. Linking resources

29. Thank you! www.europeanfilmgateway.eu www.ace-film.de welter@deutsches-filminstitut.de