EUscreenXL aims to connect Europe’s online audiovisual heritage to Europeana by aggregating a comprehensive body of professional audiovisual content and making it accessible, providing about 1.000.000 metadata records and giving access to digital video content held by European broadcasters and audiovisual archives.

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EUscreenXL
‘From access towards curation and creative partnerships’
Maria Drabczyk (NInA) & Marco Rendina (LUCE)
EVA / Minerva 2015
Jerusalem, November 9, 2015

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Henri Mordant (Part 1),
RTBF

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31 partners | 20 content partners
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DR
Kungliga
Biblioteket
Aalto-yliopisto Lietuvos Centrinis
Valstybės
Archyvas
Česká Televize
Deutsche
Welle
Österreichischer
Rudfunk
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Radio Télévision Belge
de la Communauté
Française
ATiT
Universite
de
Luxembourg
Ireland’s National Television
and Radio Broadcaster
Radiotelevizij
a Slovenija
Televiziunea Română
Nederlands Instituut
voor Beeld en Geluid
Noterik
Universiteit Utrecht
European
Broadcasting Union
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Nemzeti Audiovizuális
Archivum
Eötvös Loránd
University
Εθνικό Μετσόβιο
Πολυτεχνεί
Royal Holloway
University of London
The British
Universities Film &
Video Council
Screen Archive
South East
Queen’s University
Belfast
Institut
national de
l'audiovisuel
Narodowy
Instytut
Audiowizualny
Instituto Luce Cinecittà
Ireland’s National Television
and Radio Broadcaster
European
Broadcasting Union
Rádio e Televisão
de Portugal S.A.
Εθνικό Μετσόβιο
Πολυτεχνεί
Instituto Luce Cinecittà
European
Broadcasting Union
Televisió de
Catalunya
DR
Radiotelevizij
a Slovenija
Ireland’s National Television
and Radio Broadcaster
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EUscreenXL
31 partners
2014 2015 2016
Ourgoal:
60.000audiovisual items
1.000.000
of metadata records
in 2016

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Key ingredients
Data and content
Metadata schema
Committed partners
Ingestion tools
Interoperable multilingual online platform
Content selection policy
Contextualized and curated content

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Twin-track ingestion approach
Core Collection
20.000 items
Aggregation
1.000.000 items

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Aggregation workflow

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Mandatory elements for Europeana
Aggregation
dc:title or dc:description
dc:subject or dc:type or dc:coverage or
dcterms:spatial
edm:type
edm:dataProvider
edm:isShownAt or edm:isShownBy
edm:rights
edm:provider
edm:aggregatedCHO

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Recommended elements for Europeana
Aggregation
edm:object
dcterms: alternative
dc:creator
dc:contributor
dc:date
dcterms:created
dcterms:issued
dc:language
dcterms:temporal
dc:publisher
dcterms:medium
dcterms:extent
dc:rights

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Core collection workflow

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Core Collection
Item/clip record
Title
Title in English
Series/collection title (if
applicable)
Series/collection title in English
(if applicable)
Series/season number (if
applicable)
Episode number (if applicable)
Summary
Summary in English
Provider
Publisher/Broadcaster
Broadcast date (mandatory if
broadcast)
Production year (mandatory if
non broadcast)
IPR restrictions
Rights terms and conditions
Genre
Topic
Thesaurus terms
Geographical Coverage
Material Type
Record type
Item duration
Language used
Identifier
Original identifier
Filename
Mandatory elements:

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Core Collection
Item/clip record
Clip Title
Extended description
Information
First broadcast channel
Country of production
Original language
Local keywords
Contributor
Item colour
Item sound
Aspect ratio
Subtitle/captioning language
Metadata language
Relation type
Relation identifier
Digital item URL
Landing page URL
Optional elements:

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Layer #1: Digital objects (on the site of the provider)
Layer #2: Previews (lower quality versions of #1)
Layer #3: Metadata (descriptive object information)
Europeana has three layers of information

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Layer #3: Metadata (descriptive object information)
Layer #1: Digital objects (on the site of the provider)
Layer #2: Previews (lower quality versions of #1)
Metadata is licensed under CCO

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Layer #3: Metadata (descriptive object information)
Layer #2: Previews (lower quality versions of #1)
Layer #1: Digital objects (on the site of the provider)
EDM:rights
Preview & Digital Objects are licensed as
described in “EDM: rights”

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Possible Rights Statements you can use for
“EDM:rights”
◆ Public Domain Mark
◆ Any Creative Commons licence
◆ Rights reserved statements
◆ Free Access - Rights Reserved
◆ Paid Access - Rights Reserved
Note: There is one single EDM: rights statement which applies to
digital object and its preview

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EUscreenXL back-end tools

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• Maps providers’ elements to the EUscreen
elements via a GUI.
• Transforms and stores metadata automatically in
EBUcore format.
• Stores mapping transformations, to allow re-
editing at any point, if necessary.
• Supports value concatenation (many-to-one
mappings), string manipulation and conditional
mappings.
• Exports metadata in EBUcore and EDM 5.x and
provides the respective XSL.
Mapping tool

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Connected to:
Funded by the European Commission within the eContentplus programme www.euscreen.eu
Mapping tool

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• This module enables the addition of data that are
not in the original metadata (e.g. empty fields,
fields that take values from EUscreen thesaurus).
• The revision happens on item or group level. (i.e.
item level edit to add English description to an
item, group level edit to add topic to a group of
items in a provider’s dataset).
Annotation tool

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Annotation tool

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Preview tool

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Preview tool

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Challenges
multilinguality issues
cultural/local variables
technical infrastructure
wider organisational problems
copyright issues

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The new portal „jurnalistic”
approach
interactive
mobile
version
user-friendly and
appealling

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Where our visitors come
from
Audience Overview

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EUscreenXL blog
blog.euscreen.eu

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Virtual Exhibitions

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Video Collections

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Video Poster

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Mission: Engage Users and Content Providers

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● Distributed Search of relevant sources
● Collection of your findings
● Sharing of your results
● Appealing presentation layer
● Optional user accounts and login
● User groups
● Configurable search sources
Attract end users (scientific, educational, others)

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Creative Partnerships
- reaching out to various audiences

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Historiana
 Offers a transnational approach to the past
 Encourages multiperspectivity in history
 Promotes active learning and historical thinking

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Historiana - teaching materials for schools
3 TOPICS:
● What was Post-War Europe like?
● How was the fall of the Berlin Wall reported in
newsreels?
● The Schengen Treaty and Border Controls

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Historiana - teaching materials for schools
• Process jointly coordinated by EUROCLIO and EUscreenXL (RHUL
and NInA)
• Lesson objectives and plans prepared by specialized teams of
EUROCLIO educators
• Content selection delivered by EUscreen content partners

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VIEW Journal
http://journal.euscreen.eu

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Freedom Express Campaign
Photos: ENRS

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Freedom Express Exhibition
BERLIN
BRUSSELS
WARSAW
VIENNA
BUDAPEST
BUCHAREST
BRATISLAVA

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• 7 EUscreenXL partners contributed to the AV collage
• 2 co-ordinators – NInA (PL) and NISV (NL) => different knowledge and
attitude towards the events in question
• 3 chapters: social movements, first political actions, important
personalities, and political breakthroughs
• All items used in original language versions with brief English
descriptions presenting the context to the viewers
!!! First physical exhibition for the EUscreen network!
Freedom Express Exhibition

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Keeping the network together - the workshops
Content Partners Workshop
in Vilnius

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Join EUscreenXL network!
Initiate Cloud-
enabled technologies
for storing, indexing,
and linking metadata
Make use of our
technical and
archival expertise
Boost the visibility
of your content
Get your content
contextualized and
curated through
historical and cultural
experts
Develop new tools for
automatic metadata
enrichment

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Warsaw Conference
Content in Motion: Curating Europe’s Audiovisual Heritage
December 3rd and 4th, Warsaw, Poland
at National Audiovisual Institute

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Cannes festival: Monty
Python, RTBF

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Thank You
info@euscreen.eu
EUscreen