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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 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 • Reflecting the cultural and historical similiarities and differences of television across the European Union • User groups • Education • General Public • Cultural Heritage • Creative industries
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
The consortium 14 members from 10 countries 11 content providers / 10 languages
Associate members • VRT (B) • Moving Images Communications (UK)
Advisory board • IASA • FIAT • EBU • BFI • Joanneum Research • University of Madrid
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.)
Open Archives Initiative The European Library Portal Workflow ThesauriX Contribution Tool
Why join? • Highly visible window to your collection • Multilingual access to your holdings • Revenue from increased sales
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
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
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?
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
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
Relationships • Inward- what points to the item? • Outward- what does the item point to?
What points to “coronation”? • Royalty • Early television • 1930’s; 1950’s (in UK) • Outside broadcast • Westminster Abbey • Names: participants, presenters • “Coronation Street” ??
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
“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
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
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
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/
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 )
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)
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