The document summarizes EUscreen, a Best Practice Network funded by the European Commission to provide access to Europe's television heritage. The network includes 27 partners such as archives and technology providers. It aims to contribute 35,000 television items to Europeana with consistent metadata based on EBUcore. The network develops tools to facilitate accessing, commenting on, embedding, and remixing television content from European archives.

1. Exploring Europe's Television Heritage in Changing Contexts
Connected to:
Funded by the European Commission within the eContentplus programme www.euscreen.eu
Vassilis Tzouvaras
Technical University of Athens
tzouvaras@image.ntua.gr
Johan Oomen
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
joomen@beeldengeluid.nl
@johanoomen
CCPA meeting - 6 December 2011

2. EUscreen in a nutshell
• A Best Practice Network under eContentplus
• 27 partners (including 19 archives)
• + associate partners
• Budget: 4,3 million Euro’s
• Started in October 2009. Duration: 36 months.
• Implement EBUcore
• 35.000 items to Europeana

3. EUscreen
…access to Europe’s television heritage
Europeana
Access to Europe’s cultural heritage

4. Intro Video
http://vimeo.com/31778916

5. Archives
Technology providers
Research organisations
Associate partners
Europeana

6. Content selection

7. http://mint.image.ece.ntua.gr/redmine/projects/mint/wiki
Metadata interoperability
- 39 elements (18
mandatory)
- based on EBUcore
- fully mappable to EDM

8. Commenting
Embedding
Virtual
Exhibitions
Derivative works
Remixing
Viewing
QuotationsPlaylistsPublic viewing
Content A
Content B
Content C
Access to
Metadata

9. www.euscreen.eu