From a presentation given at the Final EUscreen International Conference at ELTE University in Budapest on September 14, 2012.

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2. Exploring the past
A journey through web
experiments around the use of
archives at RTBF
Xavier Jacques-Jourion
EUscreen International Conference

3. In memoriam
René Thierry
1932 - 2012
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4. Agenda
• RTBF
• MonExpo58.be
• Congo 60
• GEMS
• Conclusion
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6. RTBF
• Public broadcaster
• French-speaking
• 3 TV stations
6 Radio stations
• Around 200.000 hours of archives (radio &
TV)
• Digitisation in progress (SONUMA)
• Contribution to education and research
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8. www.MonExpo58.be
• Portal dedicated to the World’s Fair
organised in Brussels in 1958
 First major World's Fair after World War II
 High point in Belgium’s contemporary
history
 50th anniversary in 2008
• Independent from the ‘general’ RTBF.be
website
• Concept: recreate a virtual visit of the
Expo through multimedia archive excerpts
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9. Congo: 50 years of independence
!
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11. Interactive Google Map Layer
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12. Congo: 50 years of independence
• “50 days for 50 years of archives”
• Call for photos or films from the public
• Calendar of events scheduled for the
occasion
• 360 media approach: echoes on Radio and
TV
• No significant results in terms of audience
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13. GEMS

14. GEMS

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18. GEMS
• Goal: build a proof of concept for a
semantic-based multimedia browser
interface, using raw extracts from our
media databases.
• De-mystify the field of semantics.
• Developed with two external partners:
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19. Project intentions
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20. Project intentions
• Use semantics to assemble the knowledge
previously spread across multiple
databases.
• Connect to public data sources using LOD.
• Propose a new research tool for journalists
and production assistants.
• Cross-media searches.
• Speech-to-text engine.
• Ideally: change the way research is done
by giving access to the knowledge
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21. Demo

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