Presentation at WMPA2014 - The 1st Winter School on Multimedia Processing and Applications
Dublin, Ireland, January 6-8, 2014
Co-located with MMM 2014, The 20th Anniversary International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling.
Trinity College Dublin
Building a linked data based content discovery service for the RTÉ ArchivesMediaMixerCommunity
The RTÉ Archives holds over 500,000 photographs, 150,000 hours of audio, and 210,000 hours of moving images documenting Irish broadcasting history from the 1920s to present. As demand and platforms for accessing this content grow, new tools are needed to improve discovery of content across databases and allow for more automated search and curation. RTÉ Archives is collaborating with research partners to investigate how semantic web and linked data technologies can help meet these needs by suggesting new pathways of exploration and tracking content use throughout its lifecycle.
The document discusses the digitization of television, radio, and film archives by various organizations using the FASTFORWARD solution. Some key points:
- The LARM.fm research infrastructure contains over 2 million hours of radio and television content and 1.5 million TV programs.
- DR digitized over 420,000 hours of content between 2007-2015, postponing the film archive which presented more challenges.
- RTÈ digitized 3,000 film reels in just 6 months in 2016, compared to 222 reels digitized by another organization that year.
- FASTFORWARD provides consultancy, training, and equipment to create customized digitization workflows, helping organizations like SVT digitize 40,
AZIZ BABBUCCI Let's play with the archiveFIAT/IFTA
RSI is developing an augmented reality mobile application called RSI ARchive to provide access to archival audiovisual content from RSI in a novel way. Using AR and GPS technologies, the app will allow users to discover contextually relevant archival content linked to their real-world location. Metadata including titles, descriptions and coordinates will offer users an enriched experience of exploring the archival materials and learning about the history of different regions. The goals are to strengthen the connection between archival content and locations, make quality historical content accessible, and enable new collaborations with partners such as in tourism and museums.
Indexing and Cataloguing Very Large Digital Archives, how librarians will man...FIAT/IFTA
Librarians will need to manage advanced technologies to organize very large digital archives. The document discusses how TV Cultura in Brazil has had to change their infrastructure and storage as their video archive has grown from 60TB in 2000-2007 to over 1,300TB currently. It also outlines how artificial intelligence can help with tasks like speech-to-text, automatic summarization, face recognition and identifying similar videos to better organize these large archives. Librarians are well-positioned to generate neural network models that can help manage these very large digital collections.
COSS ROOKS re-shaping bbc archives to secure content and inspire creativityFIAT/IFTA
The document summarizes recent changes made to the BBC Archives to make it more efficient and digitally focused. Key points:
- The BBC Archives restructured with fewer managers and a focus on core functions like collections, preservation, and digitization.
- A new collections strategy prioritizes proactive engagement with commissioners and capturing content early. Resources are allocated based on collections priorities.
- Much of the archive still needs digitizing to make it accessible. Technologies are challenged by the lack of a single portal and some assets not being available digitally.
- Examples are given of collections helping the BBC respond quickly to events and inspiring new programming by having related content assembled and accessible.
TV Cultura - Philosophy and Approach to Archives (MARQUES)FIAT/IFTA
The CEDOC FPA Documentation Center is responsible for the technical treatment, recovery, and storage of valuable archives that have been preserved over the past 48 years since the founding of TV Cultura. The center's services ensure that all areas of the Fundação Padre Anchieta can access archived content to enrich TV and radio programming for Cultura and its affiliates. The archives include television programs, images, audio materials, and other content that have been cataloged, indexed, and made accessible in digital formats.
The RJ Broker is a middleware tool that automates the delivery of research output from publishers and subject repositories to institutional repositories. It accepts metadata and full text deposits, identifies target repositories, and handles deposition through protocols like SWORD. Trials were conducted with Nature Publishing Group and Europe PMC to demonstrate functionality and scalability. The future involves transitioning the RJ Broker to a sustainable service that recruits more data suppliers and repositories and adds additional features to support the open access goals of funders.
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The RTÉ Archives holds over 500,000 photographs, 150,000 hours of audio, and 210,000 hours of moving images documenting Irish broadcasting history from the 1920s to present. As demand and platforms for accessing this content grow, new tools are needed to improve discovery of content across databases and allow for more automated search and curation. RTÉ Archives is collaborating with research partners to investigate how semantic web and linked data technologies can help meet these needs by suggesting new pathways of exploration and tracking content use throughout its lifecycle.
The document discusses the digitization of television, radio, and film archives by various organizations using the FASTFORWARD solution. Some key points:
- The LARM.fm research infrastructure contains over 2 million hours of radio and television content and 1.5 million TV programs.
- DR digitized over 420,000 hours of content between 2007-2015, postponing the film archive which presented more challenges.
- RTÈ digitized 3,000 film reels in just 6 months in 2016, compared to 222 reels digitized by another organization that year.
- FASTFORWARD provides consultancy, training, and equipment to create customized digitization workflows, helping organizations like SVT digitize 40,
AZIZ BABBUCCI Let's play with the archiveFIAT/IFTA
RSI is developing an augmented reality mobile application called RSI ARchive to provide access to archival audiovisual content from RSI in a novel way. Using AR and GPS technologies, the app will allow users to discover contextually relevant archival content linked to their real-world location. Metadata including titles, descriptions and coordinates will offer users an enriched experience of exploring the archival materials and learning about the history of different regions. The goals are to strengthen the connection between archival content and locations, make quality historical content accessible, and enable new collaborations with partners such as in tourism and museums.
Indexing and Cataloguing Very Large Digital Archives, how librarians will man...FIAT/IFTA
Librarians will need to manage advanced technologies to organize very large digital archives. The document discusses how TV Cultura in Brazil has had to change their infrastructure and storage as their video archive has grown from 60TB in 2000-2007 to over 1,300TB currently. It also outlines how artificial intelligence can help with tasks like speech-to-text, automatic summarization, face recognition and identifying similar videos to better organize these large archives. Librarians are well-positioned to generate neural network models that can help manage these very large digital collections.
COSS ROOKS re-shaping bbc archives to secure content and inspire creativityFIAT/IFTA
The document summarizes recent changes made to the BBC Archives to make it more efficient and digitally focused. Key points:
- The BBC Archives restructured with fewer managers and a focus on core functions like collections, preservation, and digitization.
- A new collections strategy prioritizes proactive engagement with commissioners and capturing content early. Resources are allocated based on collections priorities.
- Much of the archive still needs digitizing to make it accessible. Technologies are challenged by the lack of a single portal and some assets not being available digitally.
- Examples are given of collections helping the BBC respond quickly to events and inspiring new programming by having related content assembled and accessible.
TV Cultura - Philosophy and Approach to Archives (MARQUES)FIAT/IFTA
The CEDOC FPA Documentation Center is responsible for the technical treatment, recovery, and storage of valuable archives that have been preserved over the past 48 years since the founding of TV Cultura. The center's services ensure that all areas of the Fundação Padre Anchieta can access archived content to enrich TV and radio programming for Cultura and its affiliates. The archives include television programs, images, audio materials, and other content that have been cataloged, indexed, and made accessible in digital formats.
The RJ Broker is a middleware tool that automates the delivery of research output from publishers and subject repositories to institutional repositories. It accepts metadata and full text deposits, identifies target repositories, and handles deposition through protocols like SWORD. Trials were conducted with Nature Publishing Group and Europe PMC to demonstrate functionality and scalability. The future involves transitioning the RJ Broker to a sustainable service that recruits more data suppliers and repositories and adds additional features to support the open access goals of funders.
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At the ‘SCAPE Information Day at the State and University Library, Denmark’, on 25 June 2014 Rune Bruun Ferneke-Nielsen presented how the library uses Jpylyzer, a SCAPE developed tool, to validate millions of JPEG 2000 files in connection with a large newspaper digitization project.
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3. An initial preview version of JISC Mediahub has been launched, allowing users to search metadata and view some content. The full service is planned for launch in August.
1. The Netherlands Institute for Sounds and Vision is the largest audiovisual archive in the Netherlands, with over 800,000 hours of content including 2 million pictures and 20,000 objects.
2. It has been digitizing its collections and making some content openly available on platforms like Open Images since 2008 as part of its mission to preserve Dutch cultural heritage and enable public access and reuse.
3. The Institute aims to further connect its open data to other cultural and external datasets to stimulate new applications and unexpected reuse, though currently only a small portion of its collection is openly available.
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The Culture Grid connects collections information from different sources to make it more accessible. It contains over 1.2 million item records, 10,000 collection records, and 7,500 institution records covering the UK. Collections information in the Culture Grid is used for time-based, map-based, and subject-based searches. Organizations can add their collections information by pushing large amounts of stable data, pulling frequently changing data, or entering small amounts of data. The process involves mapping records to Culture Grid formats and providing sample records and a technical translation. The Culture Grid can then be used through its search functions or harvested for other services.
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This document summarizes the work of the Research Data and Discovery Task Force (RDTF) to improve resource discovery across UK higher education libraries, museums, and archives. It discusses the RDTF's vision and goals to create an integrated and seamless method of accessing these collections by 2012. It provides updates on projects and metadata work to aggregate data and develop innovative discovery services. It announces the launch of a new phase called UK Discovery to further engage stakeholders and explore what open data can enable through real-world examples and case studies.
Culture Grid is a service that aggregates collection records from cultural heritage institutions across the UK. It currently contains over 1.65 million item records, 10,000 collection records, and 8,000 institution records covering all subjects and regions. Culture Grid aims to increase access to and use of collections by connecting people with collections through a variety of search and development tools. Institutions can contribute data to expand coverage and engage more users. The process involves mapping records to Culture Grid formats and providing sample records to be added.
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ICOS: Integrated Carbon Observation System Open data to open our eyes to clim...Blue BRIDGE
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Melissa Sharp, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow and Honorary Lecturer, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland;
Erzsébet Tóth Czifra Head of Programme at the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA);
Stefan Müller, Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin, Member of the Young Academy of Ireland;
Irene Castellano, Horizon Europe Health Cluster National Contact Point (NCP) for Ireland and Chair of the Ireland Chapter of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA).
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Bob Boule
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Gopinath Rebala
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Brid Dooley - Building a linked data based content discovery service for the RTÉ Archives
1. Opening up the RTÉ Archives
Through Industry
and Research led
collaboration
Insight &
Background to
Project
Bríd Dooley
Head of Archives
2. RTÉ ARCHIVES
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1920s
1940s
1960s
1980s
2000s
RTÉ Archives is Ireland’s
oldest and largest audiovisual
archive
Expanded and changed as the Collecting begins 1926
Gramophone Library 1934
national broadcaster has
Stills Library 1967
grown.
Film Library 1968
Employs circa 40 staff
Sound Archive 1968
supporting over 50,000
TV News Library 1990
research queries p.a
Written Archives 1991
Supplies up to 10% of original
TV Sports Library 1995
Radio & TV airtime
Film Archive 1996
TV and Radio Archive Projects 2001
Now a major part of RTÉ digital
RTÉ digital 2012
output across all platforms –
and growing
4. Ambition – to open and develop RTÉ Archives
as major online digital resource for multiple
audiences and user communities
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To date we have
produced over 29
curated exhibitions
comprising hundreds
of moving image &
audio segments,
documents & images fully searchable online
5. We are already big users of online
digital media
Through our website www.rte.ie/archives
Across daily RTÉ output
On Home page www.rte.ie - On this Day
Using Social Media
In special
projects ..
As well as a range of partnerships
with national cultural heritage
institutions and media organisations.
6. And we know that demand grows as the archive is
opened up
Traffic to rte.ie/archives full year
7. Common challenges to opening up Archives
Large legacy collections on dozens of different playback
formats – much of it on discreet carriers.
Four separate library databases /collections with business
specific metadata standards for search and query
Broadcast Standard files and formats mixed with Archival
requirements in constant state of change
Digital production –archive workflows not yet end –to end
Interrupted workflows as new systems introduced
Finding those gems! Demands for quick access, search
discovery and re-use of our content greater than ever.
Economic constraints of budget & personnel
8. New tools are needed to semi-automate discovery and Curation across
our internal databases for better access
To achieve this we want to work directly
with the research community to realise
opportunities in linked-data and semantic
web technologies inside the broadcast
archive specific to our needs
9. In Summary – we need to move from Access
to Discovery - why?
Because audience & user demands are changing as rapidly as consumer
technologies - and we must keep pace
Budgets and staffing shrinking while contend demand and new platforms grow
New tools are needed to aid more automated search and discovery of content both
to meet and anticipate expectations & promote the value and use of archives
The search experience we want must not just return accurate results but suggest
new pathways of investigation & help to track and document data use through
content lifecycle.
RTÉ Archives is now collaborating with two leading research partners in Ireland to
investigate how these tools can be developed within RTÉ
10. Thank you .
Bríd Dooley Head of RTÉ Archives
www.rte.ie/archives
@RTEArchives