Why a European Film Gateway?

Why a European Film Gateway?

• Why a European Film Gateway?

• Partners

• Goal

• EFG & Europeana

• Organisation of work

• Workpackages and activities

• Expected results

Multiple digitisation projects and repositories of digital collections

• Multiple digitisation projects and repositories of digital collections

• Need for common registry of digital holdings

• Need for common interoperability standards

• Flickr, youtube, etc. influence user expectations, digital libraries initiatives are on their way  Where are the film archives?

• Trans-domain approach of Europeana

• Web-based access means international (or world-wide) access  Rights issue

Partners

• Deutsches Filminstitut - DIF e. V. (Coordinator), Frankfurt Association des Cinémathèques Européennes Frankfurt/Brussels Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do cinema, Lisbon Cineteca del Comune di Bologna CNR-ISTI, Pisa Det Danske Filminstitut, Copenhagen Europeana Foundation, The Hague Eremo srl, Cupramontana FernUniversität Hagen Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna Istituto Luce, Rome La Cinémathèque Française, Paris Lichtspiel - Kinemathek Bern Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybés Archyvas, Vilnius Magyar Nemzeti Filmarchívum, Budapest Národní Filmový Archiv, Prague Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo Nederlands Filmmuseum, Amsterdam reelport GmbH, Cologne Tainiothiki tis Ellados, Athens

To make the collections accessible through a common access point

• To make the collections accessible through a common access point

• In order to do so, EFG will:

• Define quality: Specify minimum rules for metadata structure and syntax

• Define the desired functionalities of the system

• Make databases of collections and filmographies harvestable (OAI-PMH)

• Agree on content formats (esp. moving images)

• Enrich content (indexing and annotating)

• Clear rights where necessary

EFG & Europeana

• The European Film Gateway will be linked to Europeana

• Europeana (www.europeana.eu) provides integrated access to digital treasures from Europe’s museums, archives, audio-visual archives and libraries.

WP Leader: Filmarchiv Austria

• WP Leader: Filmarchiv Austria

• Activities

• Workshop on system requirements
• Functional specifications for the EFG service
• User survey after launch of the portal

WP Leader: CNR-ISTI

• WP Leader: CNR-ISTI

• Activities: Technical solutions for EFG

• Common interoperability schema
• Metadata harvesting
• Link to Europeana
• Guidelines for inclusion of new archives

WP Leader: Det Danske Filminstitut

• WP Leader: Det Danske Filminstitut

• Activities

• Cataloguing guidelines
• Content enrichment (all content providers):
• Consolidation of filmographic information
• Indexing objects

WP Leader: Deutsches Filminstitut

• WP Leader: Deutsches Filminstitut

• Activities

• Develop the΄face‘ of the EFG service in co-operation with a subcontractor – web site design and content management system
• Workshop on digital storage and retrieval
• Hosting&streaming infrastructure (reelport)

WP Leader: Nederlands Filmmuseum

• WP Leader: Nederlands Filmmuseum

• Activities:

• Evaluation of copyright regulations
• Guidelines for rights clearance
• Rights clearance (all content providers)

WP Leader: Eremo srl – support by Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE)

• WP Leader: Eremo srl – support by Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE)

• Activities:

• Maintainance of project web site
• Dissemination materials (poster, leaflet, ppt, newsletter, etc.)
• Report of all project dissemination activities
• Local workshops
• Database of audiovisual stakeholders

WP Leader: Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE)

• WP Leader: Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE)

• Activities

• Finding and implementing solutions for organisational and financial sustainability

WP Leader: Deutsches Filminstitut

• WP Leader: Deutsches Filminstitut

• Activities

• Liaison with European Commission
• Activity reporting
• Financial administration

Expected results

• Agreement on common interoperability standards for film archives and cinémathèques

• Best practices for rights’ clearance and IPR management of cinematographic works

• A single access point to the digitised collections of Europe’s film and audio-visual archives

• Access to Europe’s film heritage through Europeana

The end

• The end