VIDEO ACTIVE

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VIDEO ACTIVE
Alexander Hecht (ORF, A) Richard Wright (BBC,
UK)

• Creating Access to European Television History
• Project Update
• FIAT World Conference, Lisbon
• October 15th, 2007

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Goal

• Giving access to television heritage
• Reflecting the cultural and historical
  similiarities and differences of television
  across the European Union
• User groups
• Education
• General Public
• Cultural Heritage
• Creative industries

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The Project

• eContentplus programme
• 36 months
• Start date September 2006
• Launch first version of the portal November 2007
• Proven technology Birth of TV
• (http//www.birth-of-TV.org )
• 10.000 items by 2009

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The consortium

• 14 members from 10 countries
• 11 content providers / 10 languages

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Associate members

• VRT (B)
• Moving Images Communications (UK)

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Advisory board

• IASA
• FIAT
• EBU
• BFI
• Joanneum Research
• University of Madrid

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Content selection strategy

• Framework designed in collaboration with
  academics (London conference April 07)
• historical axis (e.g. technology developements)
• themes and genres (e.g. sports, game shows,
  education, celebrity, TV on TV, National
  Holidays, etc.)

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Workflow
ThesauriX
Contribution Tool
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First screen design
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Why join?

• Highly visible window to your collection
• Multilingual access to your holdings
• Revenue from increased sales

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www.videoactive.eu
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Join Video Active! please contact

• Prof. Dr. Sonja de Leeuw (Project Coordinator)
• Utrecht University
• Sonja.deLeeuw_at_let.uu.nl

• Johan Oomen MA (Technical Director)
• Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
• Joomen_at_beeldengeluid.nl

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Who Needs VideoActive?(now that we have You Tube)

• Or the INs and OUTs of context and competence
  in online collections
• IN Context putting all the relevant
  information into the collection
• OUT Competence metadata and tools to ensure
  users find whats in the collection

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Providing Context

• Three aspects of the full picture
• A framework for an item
• For search (including browsing) and for
  presentation
• Information about an item
• All the components and all the metadata
• Relationships
• Inward- what points to the item?
• Outward- what does the item point to?

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Context A framework for an item

• For search (browsing) and for presentation
• Historical
• Social
• When and where (and who)
• Technological
• Search for any part of the context
• Browse within a context
• Find results presented with context

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Context30.10.36
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Information about an item

• All the components and all the metadata
• Storyboard, summary, audio, video
• Plus catalogue data who, when, where, what
• Publicity still (and other stills)
• Short articles (about the context)
• Golden age of television drama
• Development of news presentation formats

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Relationships

• Inward- what points to the item?
• Outward- what does the item point to?

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What points to coronation?

• Royalty
• Early television
• 1930s 1950s (in UK)
• Outside broadcast
• Westminster Abbey
• Names participants, presenters
• Coronation Street ??

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What does Coronation point to?

• Participants
• Location
• Time period
• Coronation Street
• And points a UK researcher to other
  coronations, and how they were presented by
  television

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Creating Access

• Video Active creates access but Video Active
  has a context
• Projects of all sizes
• Individual institutions
• National
• European
• Global
• Universal! You Tube, and why it matters
• what it does well
• what it doesnt even try to do

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individual archive access

• ranging from the smallest to the 15,000 online
  hours of the Institute National de lAudiovisuel
  www.ina.fr/archivespourtous
• Video Active has made a list of over 100 such
  projects del.icio.us/VideoActive
• Is unified access to all these individual online
  collections possible?
• Video Active collects only a sample
• Of the institutions, and of the content of each

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national projects

• addressing the audiovisual heritage, notably the
  Dutch Images for the Future
• Pictures Forever
• Common pot of money for national audiovisual
  content
• Goal create access, create business
• By getting the material where public and private
  enterprises can use it
• In particular education

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European coordination projects

• Digital libraries
• TEL The European Library union catalogue
• EDL European Digital Library edlproject.eu/
  Video Active audiovisual content for EDL
• Digital preservation
• Caspar OAIS scientific and artistic
• Planets DL tools planets-project.eu/
• DPE Digital Preservation Europe
• digitalpreservationeurope.eu/

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Projects with a global view

• Audiovisual preservation and access
• FIAT UNESCO
• Archives at Risk
• (there are other endangered archive projects,
  but not primarily for audiovisual content
• UNESCO www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm
• British Library Endangered Archives
• www.bl.uk/endangeredarchives )

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Online video in general

• YouTube
• where people can put anything
• and nobody can find it
• BUT
• 95 of all YouTuve video is viewed every day!
• YouTube has an excellend contribution tool, and
  provided free hosting
• So just add metadata!! ( Video Active)

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Thank You

• Prof. Dr. Sonja de Leeuw (Project Coordinator) -
  Utrecht University
• Sonja.deLeeuw_at_let.uu.nl
• Johan Oomen MA (Technical Director)
• Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
• Joomen_at_beeldengeluid.nl
• alexander.hecht_at_orf.at
• richard.wright_at_bbc.co.uk