Presentation about the audiovisual domain, EUscreenXL and their connection to Europeana, by Erwin Verbruggen &
Joris Pekel at the Joint IASA-BAAC conference in Vilnius, September 2013
Making Audiovisual Heritage Accessible and Valuable Through Europeana
1. Making Audiovisual Heritage
Accessible and Valuable
Erwin Verbruggen | Sound and Vision, NL
Joris Pekel | Europeana, NL
09 October 2013, IASA-BAAC Conference, Vilnius
3. Europeana’s vision and mission
Europeana is a catalyst for change in the world of
cultural heritage.
Our mission: The Europeana Foundation and its Network
create new ways for people to engage with their cultural
history, whether it’s for work, learning or pleasure.
Our vision: We believe in making cultural heritage openly
accessible in a digital way, to promote the exchange of ideas
and information. This helps us all to understand our cultural
diversity better and contributes to a thriving knowledge
economy.
4. History of Europeana
April 2005: Jacques Chirac wrote to European Commission President
José Manuel Barroso, recommending the creation of a virtual
European library
EC’s Information Society and Media Directorate had been supporting
European digital information exchange projects for 15 years
September 2005: publication of EC’s i2010 strategy on digital libraries
2007: European Digital Library Network – EDLnet – began building
Europeana, funded under i2010
November 2008: Europeana prototype launched
Summer 2010: prototype became an operational service funded under
the EC’s CIP ICT-PSP (Competitiveness and Innovation Framework
Programme)
January 2011: New Renaissance Report published - endorses
Europeana as ‘the reference point for European culture online’
September 2012: Europeana metadata released under CC0 waiver,
making it freely available for re-use
5. Europe’s cultural heritage portal
29m records from 2,200
European galleries,
museums, archives and
libraries
Books, newspapers,
journals, letters, diaries,
archival papers
Paintings, maps,
drawings, photographs
Music, spoken word,
radio broadcasts
Film, newsreels,
television
Curated exhibitions
31 languages
6. The Digital Agenda for Europe
‘Europe has probably the world's greatest
cultural heritage. Digitisation brings culture
into people's homes and is a valuable
resource for education, tourism, games,
animation and the whole creative industry.
Investing in digitisation will create new
companies and generate new jobs.’
Europeana is Europe’s ‘flagship digitisation
project’ and ‘one of Europe’s most
amibitious cultural projects, and a
successful one. It is a trusted source for our
collective memory and a representation of
European cultural heritage online.’
Neelie Kroes
European Commission
Vice-President
for the Digital Agenda
9. What makes up a Europeana record?
Thumbnail/preview
Metadata
Link to digital
objects online
10. Why join Europeana
Consultancy and advice on legal and technical issues
Tools
Europeana Network
Trusted source for documentation
Continue to set standards on a legal and technical level
Highlight and showcase your good work
Metrics about usage of Europeana data
12. How does Europeana get its data?
Through its aggregation structure, Europeana represents 2,200
organisations across Europe
From 150 Aggregators
• Promoting national aggregation structures
• More efficient than working with every individual content provider
• Helps to achieve international standardisation
End-user generated content
• Crowd-sourcing projects such as Europeana 1914-1918 and
Europeana 1989
13. Who submits data to Europeana?
Domain Aggregators
National initiatives
Libraries
National Aggregators
e.g.
Culture
Grid,
Culture.fr
e.g. The
European
Library
Regional Aggregators
Archives
e.g. APEX
Audiovisual
collections
e.g. EUScreen,
European Film
Gateway
Thematic collections
e.g. Musées
Lausannois
e.g. Judaica Europeana,
Europeana Fashion
14. Types of aggregators
Cross
domain
Single
Domain
National Initiatives
National Organisations
National Organisations
Direct Suppliers
National
Europeana
Projects (themes)
Projects (domain)
Single Domain
organisations
Pan-European
19. Based on EBUcore
Mapped to the Europeana Data Model
MAPPING TOOL
Massive uploads
Schema Mapping Service
ANNOTATION TOOL
Item and
Group Level Annotation
Connection with
EUscreen Thesauri
Quality Control
Europeana Preview
Services
Search and Browsing
Services
Metadata
30. Dates
April 2014 Strategic workshop on awareness in
IPR regulations concerning audiovisual material
August 2014 First International Conference
Info
www.euscreen.eu
info@euscreen.eu
twitter – facebook
The i2010 strategy announced the intention to promote and support the creation of a European digital library which aims to foster growth in the information society and media industries.
EDLnet was aimed at building a prototype of a cross-border, cross-domain, user-centred service. It was funded by the European Commission under its eContentplus programme, one of the research and development funding streams of i2010.
The New Renaissance Report by Comite des Sages - about bringing Europe’s cultural heritage online - said ‘All public domain masterpieces should be brought into Europeana’ and that ‘Public funding for digitisation should be conditional on free accessibility through Europeana’.
Image is the dominant type
Text is increasing
Video and sound are still more challenging and costly to digitise with copyright and production issues
Europeana actively tries to increase the video and audio content, which is also reflected in its content strategy.
Example used is:
http://preview.europeana.eu/portal/record/90402/174D436CF5C61F8AA999090C98DA48B9C7024087.html
Een vrouw met een kind in een kelderkamer by Pieter de Hooch, Rijksmuseum, public domain
An aggregator in the context of Europeana is an organisation that collects metadata from a group of data providers and transmits them to Europeana. Aggregators also support the data providers with administration, operations and training.
Europeana aims to create strong partnerships and to support the developments of aggregators on a national level in Europe and of pan-European aggregators representing a specific domain or sector.
Besides getting direct data contributions from national aggregation initiatives, Europeana gets contributions from pan-European aggregators as, for example, EU-funded projects representing a specific segment or sector, like the Euroepan Film Gateway. These projects enable large amounts of data to be provided to Europeana. The aggregators also improve data, solve language issues and develop new technologies.
An aggregator in the context of Europeana is an organisation that collects metadata from a group of data providers and transmits them to Europeana. Aggregators also support the data providers with administration, operations and training.
Europeana aims to create strong partnerships and to support the developments of aggregators on a national level in Europe and of pan-European aggregators representing a specific domain or sector.
Besides getting direct data contributions from national aggregation initiatives, Europeana gets contributions from pan-European aggregators as, for example, EU-funded projects representing a specific segment or sector, like the Euroepan Film Gateway. These projects enable large amounts of data to be provided to Europeana. The aggregators also improve data, solve language issues and develop new technologies.
At a working level, we operate in a network of aggregators. We can’t work directly with 2,200 organisations, so we rely on aggregators to
collect data, harmonise it, and deliver to Europeana.
Aggregators are important because they share a background with the organisations whose content they bring together, so there is close understanding.The aggregation model enables Europeana to collect huge quantities of data from thousands of providers, through only a handful of channels.
Europeana’s content providers/aggregators represent or are linked to an estimated 60,000 content suppliers. 2,200 of those are actively supplying metadata via 150 aggregators.
28 current projects are supplying content on specific content areas for example newspapers, audiovisual records, fashion.
21 national initiatives are operating or starting in 2013.
28% of metadata comes from aggregators, 30% from projects and 32% from others such as direct suppliers.
EUscreenXL is the pan-European audiovisual aggregator for Europeana
Exists out of a consortium of television and audiovisual archives
Consortium goes back four projects in which it has built experience with publishing AV content
The mission has always been to bring television heritage to the web
Now our ambition has grown bigger: we intend to bring
In EUscreen made Europe’s television history accessible through its multilingual portal.
More than 40.000 video clips, documents, photographs and audio recordings from over 20 audiovisual archives across Europe are freely accessible online.
In EUscreenXL we thoroughly extend this operational Euscreen platform
The portal already supports:
multi-faceted search
A multi-lingual thesaurus
Metadata and annotations provided in two languages
And linked the collection to Europeana
Researchers and archivists have created a series of online exhibitions to help users explore the richness of the EUscreen collection.
The exhibitions bring a storyline approach to the diverse collection of audiovisual heritage materials
and provide a narrative context for original source materials from different cultural spheres and eras.
“The XL in EUscreenXL”
31 Partners: leading television archives
24 Countries
Ingesting at least 1.000.000 metadata sets to Europeana.eu
Giving Europeana comprehensive access to
basic metadata and digitised audiovisual content
published online by participating providers
Expanding EUscreen’s Core Collection from 40.000 to at least 60.000 contextualized high quality items
In order to demonstrate historical change and changes in production, Content Providers are encouraged to provide whole series.
Where this is not possible, episodes or editions within one series (clips or programmes) can be sampled
by time (at regular intervals) or by topic (around a particular subject or historical theme drawn from the list of ‘Historical Topics’
Participatory cultures as challenge and chance for archives and heritage institutions
3 User Engagement pilots:
General audience
Researchers (also in their roles as teachers)
Creative industry
WP3:
user requirements of end-users
designs three user engagement pilots
performs a user centred system and portal evaluation
Creating a sustainable European policy for audiovisual heritage
Facilitating trans-European exchange and (re-)use of audiovisual heritage
Expanding the network of collaborating institutions