DELIVERABLE Project Acronym: EUscreenXL Grant Agreement number: ICT PSP 325100 Project Title: EUscreenXL, the pan-European audiovisual aggregator for Europeana D2.1 Publication of metadata schema for Pan-European Aggregator Revision: Final version v1 Author(s): Marco Rendina (Cinecittà Luce) Project co-funded by the European Commission within the ICT Policy Support Programme Dissemination Level P Public X C Confidential, only for members of the consortium and the Commission Services D2.1 Publication of metadata schema for Pan-European Aggregator DOCUMENT INFORMATION Deliverable number: D2.1 Deliverable title: Publication of metadata schema for the Pan-European Aggregator Contractual date of deliverable: 31-08-2013 Actual date of deliverable: 11-11-2013 Author(s): Marco Rendina (LUCE) Participant(s): Jean-Pierre Evain (EBU) WorK pacKage: 2 WorK pacKage title: Aggregating and enriching content WorK pacKage Leader: BUFVC Dissemination Level: Public Version: v1 Keywords: metadata, schema, information architecture, aggregator HISTORY OF VERSIONS Version Date Status Author (organisation) Description/Approval Level 0 05/07/03 First draft Marco Rendina (LUCE) First draft for the preparation of the Metadata and Content HandbooK v1 0.1 30/08/03 Draft Marco Rendina (LUCE), Jean-Pierre Input and revision by Eve-Marie Evain (EBU) Oesterlen (BUFVC) and official publication in the Metadata and Content HandbooK v1 0.2 30/09/03 Draft Marco Rendina (LUCE), Jean-Pierre Deliverable ready for peer review Evain (EBU) 1 11/11/03 Final Marco Rendina (LUCE) Integrated the internal review comments from Arne Strabenau (NTUA) Statement of originality: This deliverable contains original unpublished worK except where clearly indicated otherwise. AcKnowledgement of previously published material and of the worK of others has been made through appropriate citation, quotation or both. 2 D2.1 Publication of metadata schema for Pan-European Aggregator ABSTRACT The EUscreenXL project aims to make audiovisual content from broadcasters and audiovisual archives across Europe findable and accessible online. The main objective of the project is to act as the Pan-European aggregator for Europeana in the audiovisual domain, bringing together all major European broadcasters and to actively reach out to all European audiovisual archives. This document examines the audiovisual metadata landscape, focusing mainly on the descriptive type of metadata, and looKing in particular at the worK done on this matter in related EU co-funded projects, such as the European Film Gateway, and in relevant standardisation initiatives like the CEN EN 15907 and the European Broadcasting Union EBUcore, in order to investigate the suitability and make the necessary adaptation to the EUscreen metadata schema for its use in the Pan-European aggregator for audiovisual content. These changes are necessary in this new context since the metadata schema developed in EUscreen was mainly devised for television content, whereas the EUscreenXL project aggregates a broader range of audiovisual media. Together with this overview and analysis of the current situation in the audiovisual metadata domain, this document presents the results of a survey completed by all EUscreenXL content providers. The outcomes of this survey enabled us to assess and evaluate the different local situations regarding metadata and – together with ensuing discussions with the community of content providers in regional workshops – provided the input and highlighted possible new requirements to be considered for the final objective of this deliverable, which is the publication of a metadata schema for the Pan-European Aggregator. 3 D2.1 Publication of metadata schema for Pan-European Aggregator TABLE OF CONTENTS Document Information ........................................................................................................................................ 2 History of Versions ............................................................................................................................................... 2 Abstract .................................................................................................................................................................. 3 Table Of Contents .......................................................................................................................................... 4 A Audiovisual metadata landscape ................................................................................................................ 5 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................ 5 2 The EFG metadata schema ................................................................................................................................. 6 3 The EN 15907 standard ...................................................................................................................................... 7 4 EBUCore .................................................................................................................................................................... 8 5 BBC News Storyline Ontology ........................................................................................................................ 10 6 The EUscreen metadata schema ................................................................................................................... 11 B EUscreenXL metadata survey .................................................................................................................... 13 1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 13 2 Metadata survey findings ................................................................................................................................ 13 C The EUscreenXL metadata schema ........................................................................................................... 17 1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 17 2 Metadata elements for series/collection record type ........................................................................... 18 3 Metadata elements for item/clip record type .......................................................................................... 19 4 Conclusions .......................................................................................................................................................... 19 D Reference ...................................................................................................................................................... 21 E List of controlled vocabularies ................................................................................................................... 39 4 D2.1 Publication of metadata schema for Pan-European Aggregator A AUDIOVISUAL METADATA LANDSCAPE 1 Introduction In the cultural heritage domain there are several metadata models and standards that have been used in different communities, liKe libraries, archives and museums. Some of these models are generic enough to be also adopted in multiple domains. Among this plethora of standards and models we can mention the more common and widely adopted ones, liKe Dublin Core1 (used by various cultural heritage sub-domains), LIDO2 Lightweight Information Describing Objects (mainly adopted by museum organisations), EAD3 Encoded Archival Description (endorsed by the Library of Congress and used mainly by archives) and finally EDM4, the Europeana Data Model (used by Europeana for its multi-domain aggregator). All these models and standards, generally adopted in the cultural heritage domain, are not really well suited for the description of audiovisual material, mainly because of the time-dependent nature of this content and also for the peculiarity of the audiovisual media. This is why in this document we will focus specifically on the analysis of the audiovisual metadata models only. The EUscreenXL project aims to give access to audiovisual content through Europeana and the EUscreenXL portal. For this reason the subject of this brief investigation on audiovisual metadata standards and models will be focused on the metadata used for access and fruition, the so called “descriptive metadata”, and will not consider the “administrative metadata”, such as the ones used for preservation, identification and distribution of audiovisual content (i.e. technical and rights metadata). The following Sections outline the main initiatives and standards related to descriptive metadata for audiovisual content together with an analysis of their characteristics and their suitability for the EUscreenXL project. This overview does not claim to be exhaustive. Instead, it focuses on the initiatives in the audiovisual and multimedia domain most suitable for the scope of the project, considering in particular the initiatives carried on by similar projects or endorsed by the EUscreenXL communities of reference (broadcasters and audiovisual archives). For a extensive overview of all the metadata initiatives in the audiovisual domain see the PrestoPrime deliverable “Metadata Models, Interoperability Gaps and Extensions to Preservation Metadata Standards”5. 1 http://dublincore.org/