FIAT/IFTA World Conference Madrid :: October 2006

Creating Access to Europe’s Television Heritage

FIAT/IFTA World ConferenceMadrid :: October 2006

Prof. Dr. Sonja de Leeuw (Project coordinator - Utrecht University)

Johan Oomen MA (Sound and Vision)

Why?

Television = a cultural space European dimension hardly explored Access remains restricted because of -Technology-Rights issues-Content sources

Main Objectives

Stimulating use and re-use of a huge 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

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 Advancing active engagement with the cultural

memory of Europe Stimulating awareness of the role television played

in the construction of cultural identities in Europe.

Advisory Board

FIAT/IFTA International Association of Sound and

Audiovisual Archives (IASA) European Broadcasting Union British Film Institute Joanneum Research University of Madrid

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!

BIRTH Television Archivewww.birth-of-tv.org

Backend

Thesaurus moduleMultilinguality

Contribution applicationMetadata and transcoding

Portal

National Media Server

Open Archives Initiative The European LibraryWorkflow

ThesauriX

Legacy Database

Contribution Tool

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)

Participate!

Benefits: Exposure

Critical mass Multilingual International collaboration

Exploitation opportunity High-res file transfer

Collaboration with scholars

www.videoactive.eu

A still from the series Floris (NL, 1968)

Prof. Dr. Sonja de Leeuw (Project coordinator - Utrecht University)

Johan Oomen MA (Technical Director - Sound and Vision)