This document discusses case studies and best practices for online access to film archives. It provides examples of existing digital libraries and film archives from various countries that have put collections online, including the National Library of Vietnam, the Southeast Asia Digital Library, and the French national audiovisual archive. It also summarizes some key portals that aggregate content from multiple cultural institutions, such as Europeana, which provides access to over 23 million digitized items from more than 2200 institutions in 33 countries. Finally, it briefly describes some technical capabilities that have been implemented on other sites, such as transcripts that allow navigation of video and annotation.

1. Case Studies and Best Practice
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2. Origins:
•Electronic documents
•University Libraries and National Libraries
Examples
•National Library of Vietnam http://www.nlv.gov.vn
•Southeast Asia Digital Library SEADL
(Northern Illinois Univ) http://sea.lib.niu.edu/
•VFI project with Institut National de l’audiovisuel
http://www.ina-sup.com/en/about-ina-sup/creation-
digital-library-vietnam-film-institute
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3. YouTube !!!
•Over 800 million unique users visit YouTube each month
•Over 3 billion hours of video are watched each month
•72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute
•70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US
•YouTube is localized in 43 countries and across 60 languages
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4. •Online from French national audiovisual archive
•http://www.ina.fr
•25 000 hours of free content (streamed)
•But for download there is a small charge
•The Netherlands (Holland) also has a national
audiovisual archive and national digitisation project
•170 000 hours have been digitised; many partners
•http://imagesforthefuture.com/en/
•Many access projects, not just one portal
http://tv60jaar.beeldenvoordetoekomst.nl/
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5. Museums have had a common portal for many
years: Culture 24 www.culture24.org.uk/home
BBC, British Film Institute, British Library Sound
Archive, Imperial War Museum, The National Archive
– major public service institutions with audiovisual
content. The taxpayer thinks he/she has already paid
for this content – and should have access !
Joint project: The Space thespace.org/
BBC archive: www.bbc.co.uk/archive
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6. •There is a unit of government that covers 27
European nations: the European Union
•Each has a national library
•All 27 national libraries have been working
together for 20 years: TEL = The European Library
•Now they have joined with 300 cultural
institutions to create one portal: Europeana
•Has 23 million items and growing fast
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7. Europeana gives quick and easy access to:
•over 23 million objects (mostly text and images)
•from more than 2200 institutions
•from 33 countries
•3 million visitors in September 2011
A single place to search for content
A single place to implement new technology
•Multilingual access; semantic search; special tools
for audio and video content (not much of this yet)
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8. Portal: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/
Tools: http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/home
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9. Fukuoka Film Archive (Japan) – 33 Vietnamese films
http://www.city.fukuoka.lg.jp/fu-a/en/film_archives/
Just information is
online, not the
actual films.
This is a still
from Mrs Tu Hau,
1963, director:
Phan Ky Nam
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10. Transcripts of sound track
Ability to move around the video using the
transcript
Even allows annotation
Open Vault: joint project of WGBH, the US public
service broadcaster in Boston, and Columbia
University in New York
http://openvault.wgbh.org/
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11. Tea break
After tea: technical requirements for access
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