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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

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1. EUscreenXL – who and why?
2. A newcomer’s experience
3. The view from the inside
4. The end product – new euscreen.eu portal
5. The EUscreenXL Network

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EUscreenXL
29 partners
Our goal:
60,000
audiovisual materials
1 000 000
of metadata
in 2016
2014 2015 2016

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29 partners 19 content partners
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Kungliga Biblioteket
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DR
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Aalto-yliopisto Lietuvos Centrinis
Valstybės Archyvas
Deutsche Welle
Česká Televize
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Instituto Luce Cinecittà
Österreichischer Rudfunk
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Radio Télévision Belge de
la Communauté Française
ATiT
Universite de
Luxembourg
Ireland’s National Television
and Radio Broadcaster
Radiotelevizija
Slovenija
Televisió de Catalunya
Televiziunea Română
Nederlands Instituut voor
Beeld en Geluid
Noterik
Universiteit Utrecht
European
Broadcasting Union
Nemzeti Audiovizuális
Archivum
Eötvös Loránd
University
Εθνικό Μετσόβιο
Πολυτεχνεί
Royal Holloway
University of London
The British Universities
Film & Video Council
Screen Archive
South East
Queen’s University
Belfast
Rádio e Televisão
de Portugal S.A.
Institut
national de
l'audiovisuel
Narodowy Instytut
Audiowizualny

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PMB Structure
WP2 Aggregating and Enriching
Content (BUFVC)
WP3 Contextualisation, User
Engagement and Evaluation (KB)
WP1 Project Management and
WP6 Dissemination, Exploitation
and Sustainability (NInA)
WP4 Integration and Cloud-
-based Services Platform (NTUA)
WP5 Network Expansion and
Pan-European Policies (NISV)
Pilots Leader
(RHUL)
Content
Partners
Representative (RTBF)
Quality Assurance (UU)
Project coordinator (UU)
Technical coordinator (NISV)

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WP6 Leader - Dissemination,
Exploitation and Sustainability
Content Partner

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Mission of NInA since 2009

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EUscreenXL blog
blog.euscreen.eu

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VIEW Journal

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Freedom Express Campaign

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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

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Portal
1.000.000
metadata records
free
access
thousands
of items
17
languages

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WP2 Aggregating and Enriching
Content
Content Partner

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BUFVC’s task
“metadata and content uploading and oversight”
• support the delivery process in best possible way
• monitor quality standards and performance

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Key ingredients
Data and content
Metadata schema
Content selection policy
Ingestion tools
Interoperable multilingual online platform
Committed partners

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Twin-track ingestion approach
Core Collection
20 000
Aggregation
1 000 000

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Ingestion process

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Backend (MINT tool)

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Frontend (EUscreen portal)

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Challenges
language issues
cultural/local variables
technical infrastructure
synching delivery workflow
legal issues
sustainability
wider organisational problems

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Communication is key!
Regional Workshop
for Content Partners
Technical Workshop
for Content Partners
Strategic Workshop on IPR
Regulations for Audiovisual Heritage
Metadata &
Content Handbook
Video tutorials

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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
1.000.000
themselves)
• More metadata intuitive records
search tool
• Bulilding exhibitions, rating, creating collections

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Task Force
1.000.000
metadata records

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How did we do it?
Editorial policy based on collaboration within the network
(18 content providers)
Institut
national de
l'audiovisuel
1.000.000
The Netherlands Institute Romanian Public Television
for Sound and Vision
metadata records
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Danish Broadcasting
Corporation
The National Library
of Sweden Lietuvos Centrinis
Valstybės Archyvas
Deutsche Welle
Česká Televize
Instituto Luce Cinecittà
The Austrian
Broadcasting Corporation
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Radio Télévision Belge de
la Communauté Française
Ireland’s National Public
Service Broadcaster
Radiotelevizija
Slovenija
Televisió de Catalunya
Nemzeti Audiovizuális
Archivum
Screen Archive
South East
Rádio e Televisão
de Portugal S.A.
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Narodowy Instytut
Audiowizualny

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The new portal

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What will EUscreen look like ?

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What will EUscreen look like ?

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What will EUscreen look like ?

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Join EUscreenXL network!
Initiate Cloud-enabled
Make use of our
technical and
archival expertise
technologies
for storing, indexing,
and linking metadata
Boost the visibility
of your content
Get your content
contextualized through
historical and cultural
experts
Develop new tools for
automatic metadata
enrichment

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EUscreenXL Conference in Rome
From Audience to User: New Ways of Engaging
with Audiovisual Heritage Online

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How to reach us?
https://www.facebook.com/EUscreen
info[at]euscreen.eu
https://plus.google.com/114583222201094670383
https://twitter.com/EUscreen
https://www.flickr.com/photos/euscreen/
http://vimeo.com/euscreen

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Thank You!
Eve-Marie Oesterlen
evemarie@bufvc.ac.uk
Maria Drabczyk
maria.drabczyk@nina.gov.pl
Kamila Lewandowska
kamila.lewandowska@nina.gov.pl