The document provides recommendations from an Audiovisual Media Task Force for Europeana. It includes 10 recommendations to make audiovisual items in Europeana collections more visible and accessible, such as developing an audiovisual materials strip in search results and exploring possibilities for external editorial use of audiovisual content. It also recommends offering a unified audiovisual playback, shared streaming infrastructure, and bringing audiovisual assets to the semantic web to improve integration and usage of audiovisual content.

1. Final
Recommendations
Audiovisual Media in Europeana Task Force
Johan Oomen | Den Haag, 21 February 2017

2. France, Public Domain
1932, National Library of France
Agence de presse Mondial Photo-Presse.
Tournoi royal de motos à Londres :
changement d'une roue de side-car en marche
STATUS OF THE
WORK

3. • Progress Report: November 2016
• Extensive feedback received from: David Haskiya (EF),
Kerstin Herlt (ACE), Werner Bailer (JRS),
Daniel Teruggi (Ina), Themis Karavellas (NISV)
• Editorial pilot with EF marcomms team: Dec - Jan
• Face-to-face meeting: January 2016
• TVC premises, with participation from Montse Fortino
• Currently in final editing stages of recommendations before
review
Work Done
Task Force Audiovisual Media on Europeana

4. 21 October 2015
Work Done
Task Force Audiovisual Media on Europeana

5. TF recommendations
• Recommendation 1:
Make Audiovisual Items in Europeana Collections More
Visible
• Recommendation 2:
Create Opportunities to Include Audiovisual Content in
Curation
• Recommendation 3:
Explore Possibilities for External Editorial use of
Audiovisual Content
Editorial Context of Audiovisual Media on Europeana
CC BY-SA

6. 1: Make AV Items in Europeana
Collections More Visible
• TF strongly encourages the development of a AV materials
strip in e.g. the list style search result template - as per
approval from the PO Collections
Editorial Context of Audiovisual Media on Europeana
CC BY-SA

7. 2: Create Opportunities to
Include AV Content in Curation
• Performed a pilot with MarComms team on feasibility of
using AV materials
• Feasibility is there, but not all content providers equally at
ease with content use, so consultations - via expert hubs -
always recommended
• Further research encouraged into attitudes towards content
sharing amongst content partners
Editorial Context of Audiovisual Media on Europeana
CC BY-SA

8. 3: Explore Possibilities for
External Editorial use of AV
Content
• Builds on recommendation 2
• Collaboration with educational and other portals
encouraged, always in open dialogue with content partners
Editorial Context of Audiovisual Media on Europeana
CC BY-SA

9. • Recommendation 4: Offer Unified Audiovisual Playout
• Recommendation 5: Offer a Shared Streaming Infrastructure
• Recommendation 6: Bring Audiovisual Assets to the Semantic Web
• Recommendation 7: Include Citations for Research
• Recommendation 8: Implement Content-based Indexing for Audiovisual
Materials
TF Recommendations
MC meeting
CC BY-SA
Optimise Integration of Audiovisual Content to Improve its Usage

10. Recommendation 6: Include
Citations for Research
MC
CC BY-SA
Optimise Integration of Audiovisual Content to Improve its Usage
• Technology is available and needed for research community
• Requires persistent identifiers

11. TF Recommendations
• Recommendation 9: Create an Infrastructure around
Subtitled Media on Europeana
• Recommendation 10: Allow Time-based Annotation and
Metadata Creation to Make More Relevant Search Queries
Accessibility of Audiovisual Media
Europeana MC

12. • Pilot case for creation: Work with Amara - pilot work taken on in
DSI-1, TBC under DSI-2 and 3. Expand?
• Potential solution for display via WebVTT standard, and
planned implementation by (AV) IIIF
• Potential overlap for retrieval with infrastructural work planned
for DSI-3?
• “In DSI3 Europeana will need to investigate, ideally also implement, a technical stack
much more capable of ingesting, storing, indexing and distributing freetext, including
transcriptions made by users”
Recommendation 9:
Infrastructure around Subtitled
MediaAccessibility of Audiovisual Media
Europeana MC

13. Recommendation 10:
Time-based Annotation
•Use case: BL uses time-based annotations for poems, newsreels
Accessibility of Audiovisual Media
Europeana MC

14. 21 February 2017