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FIAT/IFTA World Conference Madrid :: October 2006

Prof. Dr. Sonja de Leeuw (Project coordinator - Utrecht University). Johan Oomen MA (Sound and Vision). FIAT/IFTA World Conference Madrid :: October 2006. Why?. Television = a cultural space European dimension hardly explored Access remains restricted because of -Technology

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FIAT/IFTA World Conference Madrid :: October 2006

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  1. Prof. Dr. Sonja de Leeuw (Project coordinator - Utrecht University) Johan Oomen MA (Sound and Vision) FIAT/IFTA World Conference Madrid :: October 2006

  2. Why? • 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 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

  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 • Advancing active engagement with the cultural memory of Europe • Stimulating awareness of the role television played in the construction of cultural identities in Europe.

  5. Advisory Board • FIAT/IFTA • International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) • European Broadcasting Union • British Film Institute • Joanneum Research • University of Madrid

  6. 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!

  7. BIRTH Television Archivewww.birth-of-tv.org

  8. Thesaurus module Multilinguality Contribution application Metadata and transcoding Backend

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

  10. 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)

  11. Participate! • Benefits: • Exposure • Critical mass • Multilingual • International collaboration • Exploitation opportunity • High-res file transfer • Collaboration with scholars

  12. www.videoactive.eu

  13. 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)

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