Presentation about the EUscreenXL and Europeana Sound projects. Given at the Transnational Radio Encounters Workshop #1 at EBU, Geneva.

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Approaches and Issues to
Online Audiovisual Archives
TRE Workshop #1
Erwin Verbruggen
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

2. Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision[xəlœyt]

3. Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision[xəlœyt]

4. preservation and access together form a
new imperative for audiovisual archives:
twin missions — preservation for access,
access for preservation — that twist
around each other like the double helix of a
modern memory institution’s DNA.
Peter B. Kaufman, Assessing the Audiovisual Archive Market.
https://www.prestocentre.org/library/resources/assessing-audiovisual-archive-market

5. Danmarks Radio, DK
Deutsche Welle, DE
Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, GR
Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, FR
Cinecittà Luce, IT
Osterreichische Rundfunk, AT
Radio-Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française, RTBF
Audiovisual Technologies Informatics and Telecommunications, BE
University of Luxembourg, LU
Lithuanian Central State Archive, LT
Raidió Teilifís Éirann, RTÉ
Radiotelevizija Slovenija, SI
Kungliga Biblioteket, SE
Televisió de Catalunya, ES
Telewizja Polska, PL
Narodowy Instytut Audiowizualny, PL
Televiziunea Română, RO
Česká Televize, CZ
Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, NL
Noterik, NL
European Broadcasting Union, CH
National Audiovisual Archive, HU
Eötvös Loránd University, HU
National Technical University of Athens, GR
Royal Holloway University of London, UK
Aalto University/TAIK, FI
Utrecht University, UU
British Universities Film & Video Council, UK
Screen Archive South East, United Kingdom UK
Rádio e Televisão, Portugal PT
The British Library, UK
Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, NL
Kennisland, NL
Europeana Foundation, NL
Bibliotheque Nationale de France, FR
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, AT
Net7 SRL, IT
We Are What We Do. UK
Technisches Museum Wien Mit Osterreichischer Mediathek, AT
Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek, AT
Statsbiblioteket, DK
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, FR
Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, DE
Max Planck Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften, DE
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, DE
Syllogos Oi Filoi Ths Mousikhs, GR
National Technical University of Athens, GR
Irish Traditional Music Archive/Taisce Cheol Duchais Eireann, IE
Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, IE
Istituto Centrale Per il Catalogo Unico delle Biblioteche Italiane.. IT
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PT
National Library of Latvia, LV
Dizi, Republic of Lithuania LT
Sabhal Mor Ostaig, UK

6. EUSCREEN
APEX
EUROPEAN
FILM
GATEWAY
THE
EUROPEAN
LIBRARY
EUROPEANA
SOUND
EUROPEANA

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8. 1. Access = making available
2. Access = metadata
3. Access = contextualise
4. Access = making it findable
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1. Access = making available
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!What’s your content selection policy?
What kind of licenses can you grant?
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10. Arts and culture - Being European - Disasters - Education -
Environment and Nature - Health - History of European
Television - Lifestyle and consumerism - National holidays,
festivals, anniversaries and annual events - Politics and
Economics - Religion and belief - Society and social issues -
Special Collections - The media - Transportation, science and
technology - Wars and conflict - Work and production
545.000 (added) sound recordings
225.000 associated objects
20.000 series items in core collection
1.000.000 items aggregated
Classical and Contemporary Music
Traditional and Folk Music
The Natural World
Oral Memory
Languages and Dialects

12. Commenting
Embedding
Virtual
Exhibitions
Derivative works
Remixing
Viewing
QuotationsPlaylistsPublic viewing
Content A
Content B
Content C
Access to Metadata
Levels of Access
Sanna Marttila & Kati Hyyppä,
AALTO University. EUscreen
Review of IPR Limitations and
Recommendations. 2011

13. (The Trouble with) Licensing
Improve access to out-of-commerce works
Identify barriers to access
Provide unique identifiers
Increase opportunities for creative re-use
Research, policy & advocacy
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1. Access = making available
2. Access = metadata
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15. (The Trouble with) Metadata
Using the same words: Thesauri, Ontologies
- - > SKOS / LOD
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Mapping metadata to a standard
- - > EBUcore
- - > Europeana Data Model
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…Finding metadata?
- - > Manual annotation
- - > Asking the crowd

16. Crowdsourcing
Europeana Channel Third party playout
Semantic
Enrichment
Wikimedia
Chapters
Corporate
Portal
Content
Provider 1
Corporate
Portal
Content
Provider n
HistoryPin
platform
Enriched metadata

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1. Access = making available
2. Access = metadata
3. Access = contextualise
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19. Collaboration with Academia
- - > VIEW Journal
- - > Virtual Exhibitions
- - > Digital Humanities Pilot
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Collaboration with volunteer groups
- - > Translation pilot
- - > Wikimedia chapters
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Context through automation
- - > Innovative exploration pilot
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Contextualisation = Collaboration
Challenging Television
Historiography in an Analogue
World. Dana Mustata. NECS
Conference 2012.
http://www.slideshare.net/
EUscreen/dana-necs-
presentation-final

20. Ongoing: Exhibitions
Contextualisation

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1. Access = making available
2. Access = metadata
3. Access = contextualise
4. Access = making it findable
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Et alors,
êtes-vous intoxiqués?

25. Contact
everbruggen@beeldengeluid.nl
@erwinverb - @benglabs
www.beeldengeluid.nl/research
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www.euscreen.eu
blog.euscreen.eu
@euscreen
Info
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http://pro.europeana.eu/
web/europeana-sounds
@eu_sounds

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Photo credits
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On vous intoxique! from “Les affiches de Mai 68, ou, L’imagination graphique” (1982)
Publisher Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, 1982 http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6532558s/f73.image
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Science Helix Dna
Pixabay user Nemo http://pixabay.com/en/science-helix-dna-biology-gene-30518/
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Image #23 of 38 images for Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
© by Neutelings Riedijk Architects. http://www.architecturenewsplus.com/project-images/16577
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EUscreen data visualisation by Tjerk Smit
http://rdbg.tuxic.nl/euscreendemos/datavisualisation/
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Metadata Madness Wheel
CC BY-NC-SA Richard Urban http://www.flickr.com/photos/musebrarian/3289649684/sizes/l/
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Europeana Sounds crowdsourcing overview by Maarten Brinkerink, WP2 lead
http://pro.europeana.eu/documents/2011409/5fdabd36-d36b-4099-86da-8cbb8098f883
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