Going Euscreenxl: on the Joys and Challenges of Participating in a Pan-European AV Heritage Project

Going EUscreenXL: on the joys and challenges of participating in a pan-European AV heritage project

Maria Drabczyk (NInA), Kamila Lewandowska (NInA), Eve-Marie Oesterlen (BUFVC)

BAAC Conference, Riga, September 18, 2014

1. EUscreenXL – who and why?

2. A ecoer’s experience

3. The view from the inside

4. The end product – new euscreen.eu portal

5. The EUscreenXL Network

4 EUscreenXL

29 partners goal: Our

60,000 in 2016 audiovisual materials 1 000 000 of metadata

2014 2015 2016 5 29 partners 19 content partners

Radio Télévision Belge de Aalto-yliopisto Lietuvos Centrinis la Communauté Française Kungliga Biblioteket Valstyės Archyvas

ATiT Narodowy Instytut DR Audiowizualny Universite de Luxembourg Deutsche Welle Institut Ireland’s National Television national de l'audiovisuel 1 Österreichischer Rudfunk and Radio Broadcaster 1

Royal Holloway University of London Česká Televize

The British Universities 1 1 Film & Video Council 4 3 Televiziunea Română Screen Archive 1 1 South East 2 1 1 1 Nemzeti Audiovizuális Queen’s University 1 Archivum Belfast 1 1 2 1 1 Eötvös Loránd Nederlands Instituut voor University Beeld en Geluid 1 Noterik 1 1 1 Radiotelevizija European Slovenija Universiteit Utrecht Broadcasting Union

Εθνιό Μεσόβιο Rádio e Televisão Ποεχνεί de Portugal S.A. Televisió de Catalunya Instituto Luce Cinecittà 6

WP1 Project Management and Quality Assurance (UU) PMB Structure

WP2 Aggregating and Enriching Content (BUFVC) WP4 Integration and Cloud- -based Services Platform (NTUA)

Content Project coordinator (UU) Partners Pilots Leader Technical coordinator (NISV) Representative (RTBF) (RHUL) WP3 Contextualisation, User Engagement and Evaluation (KB)

WP5 Network Expansion and Pan-European Policies (NISV) WP6 Dissemination, Exploitation and Sustainability (NInA) 7

Content Partner WP6 Leader - Dissemination, Exploitation and Sustainability 8 Mission of NInA since 2009

9 EUscreenXL blog

blog.euscreen.eu 10 VIEW Journal 11 Freedom Express Campaign 12 Benefits

For archivists/broadcasters:

open collections to wider audiences

join network for discussion/best practice around IPR, metadata standards, digitisation, new services and technologies

For users (educators, researchers, media professionals, enthusiasts):

access, find and explore rich variety of AV content from across Europe 13 Portal

thousands 17 languages of items

free 1.000.000 access metadata records

Content Partner WP2 Aggregating and Enriching Content 15 BUFVC’s task

etadata ad cotet uploadig ad oersight

• support the delivery process in best possible way • monitor quality standards and performance 16 Key ingredients

Data and content

Metadata schema

Content selection policy

Ingestion tools

Interoperable multilingual online platform

Committed partners 17 Twin-track ingestion approach

Core Collection 20 000

Aggregation 1 000 000 18 Ingestion process 19 Backend (MINT tool) 20 Frontend (EUscreen portal) 21 Challenges

language issues

cultural/local variables

technical infrastructure

synching delivery workflow

legal issues

sustainability

wider organisational problems 22 Communication is key!

Regional Workshop Technical Workshop for Content Partners for Content Partners

Video tutorials Metadata & Strategic Workshop on IPR Regulations for Audiovisual Heritage Content Handbook 23 Why new portal?

Users’ requirements (based on Google Analytics, focus groups and surveys):

Search, surf, build

• Less static, more dynamic and inviting homepage • Showing ratings, most watched videos • More information about available material • Apps for mobile devices • Video subtitling (respondents expressed interest in providing translations 1.000.000themselves) • Moremetadata intuitive recordssearch tool • Bulilding exhibitions, rating, creating collections

24 Task Force

1.000.000 metadata records

25 How did we do it? Editorial policy based on collaboration within the network (18 content providers)

Narodowy Instytut Audiowizualny Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française The National Library of Sweden 1 Lietuvos Centrinis Valstyės Archyvas Institut national de Danish Broadcasting Deutsche Welle l'audiovisuel Corporation 1 1 The Austrian Ireland’s National Puli 1 1 1 Broadcasting Corporation Service Broadcaster 2 1 1 1 Screen Archive Česká Televize South East 1 1 1 1 1 The Netherlands1.000.000 Institute Romanian Public Television for Sound and Vision metadata records1 1 1 Rádio e Televisão Nemzeti Audiovizuális de Portugal S.A. Archivum

Radiotelevizija Slovenija Televisió de Catalunya Instituto Luce Cinecittà „ ”

26 The new portal 27 What will EUscreen look like ? 28 What will EUscreen look like ? 29 What will EUscreen look like ? 30 Join EUscreenXL network! Make use of our technical and archival expertise

Initiate Cloud- enabled technologies Boost the visibility for storing, indexing, of your content and linking metadata

Get your content Develop new tools for contextualized through automatic metadata historical and cultural enrichment experts 31 EUscreenXL Conference in Rome From Audience to User: New Ways of Engaging with Audiovisual Heritage Online 32 How to reach us? https://plus.google.com/114583222201094670383

https://www.facebook.com/EUscreen

http://vimeo.com/euscreen

info[at]euscreen.eu

https://www.flickr.com/photos/euscreen/ https://twitter.com/EUscreen

Thank You!

Eve-Marie Oesterlen [email protected]

Maria Drabczyk

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Kamila Lewandowska

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