As presented by Johan Oomen and Marco Rendina at th 2019 FIAT/IFTA World Conference in Dubrovnik.

1. EUROPEANA MEDIA
Making AV a First-Class Citizen
Marco Rendina (Istituto Luce - Cinecittà) | FIAT(IFTA workshop 2019

2. The partners
Europeana Media Partners
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3. Problem statement - Europeana Media Activity 2
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Problem statement
Today, Europeana provides access to 1.1 million videos and 735k audio
recordings. But there are three main shortcomings in user experience
that hinder AV material from reaching its full potential:
1. differing playout services used by content providers;
2. current playout on Europeana offers no additional features that
make AV content more appealing and reusable;
3. AV content reuse is often hindered by the lack of clear
information about allowed options for reuse

4. Europeana Media4

5. Proposed solution - Europeana Media Activity 2
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Proposed solution
Europeana Media aims to develop an Enhanced Unified Playout Service
(EUPS) for time-based media integrated in the Europeana Collections
portal. Delivering a suite of functionalities that offer researchers,
educators and citizens the possibility to better access and incorporate AV
content from Europeana into their working environments, such as:
● offering video fragment quoting,
● support for subtitling,
● and embedding media (based on copyright conditions).
The Enhanced Unified Playout Service will be integrated into the
Europeana Core platform, ensuring long-term sustainability.

6. Support for different hosting & streaming services.
Limited and
dispersed video
playout
experience
Support for secure playout (meaning preventing
downloads of copyrighted videos) in line with the
Europeana Licensing Framework. This will allow more
videos to be played-out on the Europeana platform
directly, as the EUPS guarantees providers a secure playout
with clear ownership reference and no possibility for the
viewer to download the item.
Alignment of specific reuse functions (download, cite,
embed) based on the rights statement of the object played.
Lack of clear and
intuitive
information
about reuse
options
Functionalities
Europeana Media Functionalities
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7. Support embedding portions of video (clips).
No enhanced
functionalities to
engage with/reuse
audiovisual
content
Support for citing media fragments.
Support for displaying subtitles and management of subtitle
contributions from users (possibility to add subtitles to video
items, store and search for them).
Management of users’ interactions to support
annotations/tagging on video items (add, display, store user
annotations).
Support for usage statistics (views, downloads, citations).
Fine-grained
analysis of the
impact of AV
content
Functionalities
Europeana Media Functionalities
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8. Europeana Media13
Tables’ Topics
1. Media player functionalities
2. Opening-up collections online
3. How do Archives care about users
4. Storytelling with online heritage

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