A Gateway to FilmHeritage in Europe

EUScreen WorkshopMykonos, Greece 23/24 June 2010

Julia Welter

Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF

welter@deutsches-filminstitut.de

Franca Debole

ISTI- CNR

franca.debole@isti.cnr.it

General facts

• Initiated by ACE• Funded by eContentPlus• Co-ordinated by Deutsches

Filminstitut• Start September 2008• Runtime 3 years• Euopeana aggregator project

Partners

• 21 Partners from 15 European Countries

• 15 Content providers (= film archives & cinémathèques)

• 3 Technology providers and providers of technological infrastructure

• 3 Other partners (Dissemination, Co-ordination with EDL, Sustainability planning)

Consortium: Archives

Finnish Audiovisual ArchiveNational Library NorwayDanish Film InstituteLithuanian State ArchivesEye Film InstituteCinémathèque FrancaiseDeutsches FilminstitutCzech National Film ArchiveHungarian Film ArchiveFilmarchiv AustriaLichtspiel BernCinemateca PortuguesaCineteca di BolognaCinecitta LuceGreek Film Archive

Initial Situation

• Need for central access point for growing digital repositories

• need for a registry of collections, items and film-specific authority files on a trans-institutional, trans-national level

• Need of common standards for database & record structures suitable for the needs of film archives

• Need to build knowledge and best practices when it comes to dealing with IPR issues in the context of web-based access

• Need to face growing user expectations

What is EFG supposed to achieve?• Build a „digital showcase“ for collections of

Europe‘s film archives and cinematheques– Moving images: Films and film clips, trailers etc.– Images: Posters, images, stills, drawings etc.– Text material: Reviews, correspondence,

censorship documents etc.– Sound material: Interviews etc.

• Registry of digital objects and authority records (works of film, persons)

• Agreement on common interoperability standards for film archives and cinémathèques

• Best practices for rights identification

Content Selection

• No content selection strategy• EFG to use already existing digital

objects• EFG mainly to rely on material that

has already been rights cleared • Narrowing down content to themes

for EFG would mean extremely little content to present

• EFG will give access to ca. 700.000 items

Current state of things

• Data ingestion since Aug 2009 ongoing• Data delivered to Europeana• Front-end development started Jan 2010• First prototype version internally: Jul

2010• Internal testing and bug-fixing until Sept• Public launch scheduled for Oct 2010• Consolidating film work and person

authority files, linking objects to authority records, further ingests until Aug 2011

EFG Web portal: Design draft Start page

EFG Web portal: Design draft Search results page

EFG Web portal: Design draft Detailed Search Result Screen

Metadata interoperability & CWS

• Cinematographic Works Standard (CWS) partially applied in EFG

• Current drafts and news: www.filmstandards.org

• Part 1 specifies a minimum set of information elements for the unambiguous identification of film works.Primary goal not to generate new metadata

• Part 2 is a specification for structuring machine-processable metadata about cinematographic works. This part of the standard can be used as a basis for data exchange between existing catalogue systems.

The EFG Metadata Schema

The EFG Metadata SchemaAn AV Creation Corresponds to a Cinematographic work as defined in EN 15907.

Main elements:• Identifier• Title• Record Source• Identifying Title• Country of Reference• Production Year• Keywords• Description• Note• UserTag • ViewFilmography

The EFG Metadata Schema

An AV Manifestation is the physical embodiment of an audio visual creation. For example, it may contain the different national versions, different productions of the same AV Creation.

Main elements:• Identifier• Title• Record Source• Language• Dimension• Duration• Coverage• Format• Rights holder• Provenance• Thumbnail• Note

The EFG Metadata Schema

An Item contains a reference to the external resource. For a single AV Manifestation we may have several Items stored in different archives.

Main elements:• Identifier• IsShownBy• IsShownAt• Format• Provider• URI• Country• Note

The EFG Metadata Schema

Examples of Non AV Creations are pictures, photos, correspondence, books or periodicals

Main elements:• Identifier• Title• Record Source• Keywords• Description• Date Created• Language• Note• UserTag

The EFG Metadata Schema

A Non AV Manifestation is the physical embodiment of an Non AV Creation.

Main elements:• Identifier• Title• Record Source• Type• Language• Date• Digital Format• Physical Format• Geographic Scope• Coverage• Rights holder• Provenance• Thumbnail• Note

The EFG Metadata Schema

An Agent is an Entity that can perform an action.There are three agent types:

•PersonIdentifier, Record Source, Name, Date, Region of Activity, Place, Sex, Type of Activity, Note, ViewBiography

•Corporate Body•Group

The EFG Metadata SchemaPublication eventE.g. a public screening, broadcast or a public release on a physical distribution medium or online•Elements: Identifier, Record Source, Type, Date, Regional Scope, Place, Event Name, Exhibition organizer, Publisher, Access conditions, NoteDecision eventAn event in which a manifestation of a creation was evaluated by a censorship body or an accredited rating agencyIPR RegistrationAwardProduction eventExamples are dates and locations where castings took place or dates and locations of shootings or other recordings

An example of the use of theEFG Metadata Schema

• Title: “2001: A Space Odissey”• Record Source: IMDB• Identifying Title: “2001: A Space Odissey”• Country of Reference: • Production Year: 1968• Keywords: Science Fiction, HAL, intelligent

computer• Description: “Mankind finds a mysterious,

obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest”

An example of the use of theEFG Metadata Schema

• Title: “2001: A Space Odissey”• Record Source: IMDB• Identifying Title: “2001: A Space Odissey”• Country of Reference: • Production Year: 1968• Keywords: Science Fiction, HAL, intelligent

computer• Description: “Mankind finds a

mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest”

• Title: “2001: Odissea nello Spazio”• Record Source: “Cineteca Nazionale”• Language: IT• Duration: 141 min

• Title: “2001: A Space Odissey”• Record Source: “MGM”• Language:EN• Duration: 160 min

An example of the use of theEFG Metadata Schema

• PersonRecord Source: IMDBName: Stanley KubickRegion of Activity: UKSex: maleType of Activity: directorViewBiography

An example of the use of theEFG Metadata Schema

• Title: Poster• Record Source: IMDB• Keywords: Used in Italy• Date Created: 1968

An example of the use of theEFG Metadata Schema

• Title: Review• Record Source: IMDB• Date Created: 1968

An example of the use of theEFG Metadata Schema

• Title: Poster• Record Source: IMDB• Keywords: Used in Italy• Date Created: 1968

• Title: Review• Record Source: IMDB• Date Created: 1968

Linking resources• Title: Poster• Record Source: IMDB• Keywords: Used in Italy• Date Created: 1968

• Title: Review• Record Source: IMDB• Date Created: 1968

was reviewed in

was advertised

directed by

played by

Linking resources

Thank you!

www.europeanfilmgateway.euwww.ace-film.de

welter@deutsches-filminstitut.de