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AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVAL ACCESS PROJECT

AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVAL ACCESS PROJECT. PROFESSOR JOHN ELLIS MEDIA ARTS ROYAL HOLLOWAY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. THE PROJECT. 30,000 ITEMS OF AUDIO-VISUAL CONTENT FROM THE ARCHIVES OF EUROPE’S BROADCASTERS SEARCHABLE IN NINE LANGUAGES STREAMED TO ANY USER AVAILABLE TO ALL.

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AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVAL ACCESS PROJECT

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  1. AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVAL ACCESS PROJECT PROFESSOR JOHN ELLIS MEDIA ARTS ROYAL HOLLOWAY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

  2. THE PROJECT 30,000 ITEMS OF AUDIO-VISUAL CONTENT FROM THE ARCHIVES OF EUROPE’S BROADCASTERS SEARCHABLE IN NINE LANGUAGES STREAMED TO ANY USER AVAILABLE TO ALL

  3. THE TEAM • Consortium: - 28 Partners - Broadcasters, archives, technologists, academic partners and educationalists - 20 Content Providers - 19 Countries • Synergy with Europeana (TV aggregator) • EUscreen Best Practice Network • Budget €4.3m (total €5.85m) • 36 months (2009-2012) Connected to: Funded by the European Commission within the eContentplusprogramme www.euscreen.eu

  4. Archives Technology providers Researchorganisations Associate partners

  5. THE STORY VideoActive (2006-9) • RHUL proposed by BBC, ‘recognised’ by U.Utrecht • RHUL’s Videoactive role: organise content categories, uploading, commentary EUscreen: follow-on project 2009-12 • RHUL brings in BUFVC as ‘metadata police’ • One-to-one and group discussions on principles • Interface between content providers and technology providers

  6. Research or administration? • Speed of slowest • Creating a shared vision: misunderstanding the project / mistaken assumptions • Promises not kept / work not done • Technology provider problem (when isn’t there one?) • Endless telcos and emails • The role of the English language

  7. The money • eContentplus programme “a multiannual Community programme to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable” • 80% EU, 20% institutional contribution • ‘Person hours’ ‘allowable expenses’... But no overheads • Currency exchange gains (or losses) • Pays for two colleagues... And some more...

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