1) Europeana Media Activity 2 aims to develop an Enhanced Unified Playout Service (EUPS) to improve access to over 1 million videos and 700,000 audio recordings on Europeana. 2) The EUPS will offer features like video clipping, subtitles, and embedding media according to copyright conditions. It will be integrated into Europeana's platform to ensure long-term sustainability. 3) The new service aims to address current shortcomings by standardizing playout across content providers, adding useful features for reuse, and clarifying rights information.

1. EUROPEANA MEDIA
Making AV a First-Class Citizen
Marco Rendina (Istituto Luce - Cinecittà) | GS meeting 2018-10-29

2. General info - Europeana Media Activity 2
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General info
Call: CEF Europeana Generic Services 2017
Duration: Sep. 2018 - Feb. 2020
Budget: 662.000 €, 75% funded

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 more appealing and reusable;
3. AV content reuse is often hindered by the lack of clear
information about allowed options for reuse

4. Europeana Media Activity 2
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1,125,874
686,605
FormatsMedia on
Europeana:
who & what?

5. Items Source Aggregator
165,463 ina.fr Ina, EUscreen partner
56,138 EUscreen.eu EUscreen
88,181 CCMA EUscreen partner
3,030 Vimeo EFG, Europeana Fashion, et al.
1,078 YouTube various
1,321 picturepipe various
Video Providers - Europeana Media Activity 2
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Providers: Video

6. Sound providers - Europeana Media Activity 2
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Providers: Sound
Items Source Aggregator
102,299 eusounds.ait Europeana Sounds
21,432 CREM-CNRS Europeana Sounds partner
20,003 dismarc.org Former DISMARC aggregator
4,895 British Library Europeana Sounds partner
2,565 SoundCloud Europeana Sounds, et al.

7. ITEMS WITH LINKS TO MEDIA
# Institution Amount Player
1 Istitutio Luce Cinecittà 20,259
“No compatible source was found for this
video” - Download: video/x-ms-wmv
2
Digital Mechanism and Gear Library -
www.dmg-lib.org
5,863 Hosted locally
3
Open Society Archives at Central European
University
3,870
“No compatible source was found for this
video” - Download: video/x-flv
4 National Library of Scotland 2,567 JPEG
5 Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision 1,001
“No compatible source was found for this
video” - Download: video/quicktime
Video Providers’ Platforms - Europeana Media Activity 2
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8. 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.

9. Proposed infrastructure
Proposed infrastructure
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10. The partners
Europeana Media Partners
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11. Support for different hosting & streaming services
(examples are Vimeo, YouTube, EUscreen, Wikimedia
Commons).
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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12. 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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13. Tech Watch
Europeana Media Tech watch
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textAV
iiifAV
Media Fragments
HTML5

14. 2018-09-18