Building an online archive for the Eurovision Song Contest using Amazon Cloud includes four key strategies: 1. Preservation Strategy, 2. Indexing Strategy, 3. View Strategy, 4. Exchange Strategy.

1. “Tools & strategies for Eurovision archive”
Peter Overgaard
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3. EXCHANGE
STRATEGY
VIEW
STRATEGY
INDEXING
STRATEGY
PRESERVATION
STRATEGY
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4. Contest
Event
Person
Song
Country
Ar1st
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5. Preservation Strategy
• Harvesting data from Eurovision.tv api
• Mapping to EBU Core using mapping tool
• Dissecting content into normalized data structure
API
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6. Preservation Strategy
58 Contests & 74 Events
1320 Songs
1276 Artists
2298 Persons
78 Organizations
7034 Relations between objects
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7. View & Index strategy
Applications
Webservice
Search engine &
Cache server
Views / Index
processing
Metadata storage
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8. Exchange strategy
Files placed on
ftp server for
retrieval
Metadata view inserted
into
files
MXF
Metadata storage
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9. Examples
• API examples
• ESC Archive
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10. Conclusion
• Preservation, application usage and exchange have three very different
metadata requirements
• We have standards. So its now more about tools and strategies
• Be aware of compromising your archive metadata structure between
preservation and usage needs
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11. “Tools & strategies for Eurovision archive”
Peter Overgaard
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