Searching and browsing film archives – The European Film Gateway approach
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A Gateway to FilmHeritage in Europe
AVA21 – Audiovisual Archives
in the 21st Century
Ghent, 13-14 October 2010
Georg Eckes
Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF
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Before EFG: MIDAS
• filmarchives-online.eu: Union catalogue of (non-fiction) films in European film archives
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Objectives
• Build a „digital showcase“ for collections in European film archives and cinémathèques
– Films and film clips, trailers etc. (esp. non-fiction)
– Images: posters, photos, stills and set photographies, designs and drawings etc.
– Text material: reviews, correspondence, censorsip and rating visa etc.
• Central access point to federated digital collections and repositories
• „Registry“ of digital objects and film-related authority data (Film works, Persons)
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Consortium: Archives
Finnish Audiovisual Archive
National Library Norway
Danish Film Institute
Lithuanian State Archives
Eye Film Institute
Cinémathèque Francaise
Deutsches Filminstitut
Czech National Film Archive
Hungarian Film Archive
Filmarchiv Austria
Lichtspiel Bern
Cinemateca Portuguesa
Cineteca di Bologna
Cinecitta Luce
Greek Film Archive
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Ca. 12 more sites
Infrastructure setup
Metadata Metadata Metadata Metadata
EFG Information space
Danish Filmography (DFI) Filmportal.de (DIF) Luce site
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Interoperability: Challenges & Tools
• Information about the same films and persons coming from different sources
Complex data schema, FRBR- and CWS-oriented (Cinematographic Works Standard)
– www.filmstandards.org
Match & Merge tool for finding and merging records describing identical film works or persons: „Authority File Manager“ (AFM)
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An example of the use of theEFG Metadata Schema
• Title: “Metropolis”• Record Source: DIF• Identifying Title: “Metropolis”• Country of Reference: Germany• Production Year: 1925• Keywords:• Description: “Metropolis – the city of the future.
Fritz Lang's monumental science fiction film combines visual power with a love story around the reconciliation of labor and capital: Joh Fredersenrules the city from high above while the workers are non-stop plodding underground. Fredersen's son
Freder falls in love with Maria, the workers' leader.”
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An example of the use of theEFG Metadata Schema
Title: “Metropolis”Record Source: “DIF”Language: GERDuration: 141 min
Title: “Metropolis”Record Source: “DIF”Language: GERDuration: 93 min
• Title: “Metropolis”• Record Source: DIF• Identifying Title: “Metropolis”• Country of Reference: Germany• Production Year: 1926
Vild med dansk 8
Title: “Metropolis”Alternative: “Vild med dansk 8”Record Source: “DFI”Language: DENDuration: 147 min
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Authority file manager tool• Generatin “authoritative” entries for film works and persons
• Automated support for detection ob doublets
• Match & Merge
Data quality
Ca. 12 more sites
Metadata Metadata Metadata Metadata
EFG Information space
Danish Filmography (DFI) Filmportal.de (DIF) Luce site
Authority File Manager Service
EuropeanaThoughLab
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Do different types of AV material require a fundamentally different approach?
• e.g. Television archives vs Film archives
• Different primary purposes, different traditions
• Production vs. Exhibition
• Different metadata
• Description of and access to individual sequencesof a program vs. Contextualisation of whole filmswith film-related objects and information
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Von lokalen Datensätzen zu verteilten Ressourcen
was reviewed in
was shown at
was directed by
was advertised
with
An art museum
A biography
collection
A film archive
A library
A geographical
information system
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Von lokalen Datensätzen zu verteilten Ressourcen
was reviewed in
was shown at
was directed by
was advertised
with
An art museum
A biography
collection
A film archive
A library
A geographical
information system
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At which levels should agreementsrelating to metadata, qualitystandards and criteria be concluded?
• „Data Provider Agreements“
• Europeana-DPA vs. EFG-DPA
• Europeana-DPA vs. EDM & Linked Data
• Changes in concepts Changes in contracts
• Insecurity for archives, projects, Europeana
Clear metadata licensing requirements alreadybefore start of interoperability projects needed!
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www.europeanfilmgateway.eu