1. VIDEO ACTIVE Creating Access to Europe ’s Television Heritage Winner Museums and the Web Best of the Web Award 2009
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Editor's Notes
Just to show off a bit! Video Active won this year the Best of the Web award. This prestigious award is given to websites in the cultural heritage domain, and we ‘ ve won the People ‘ s choice award in the Research category. ... Audiovisual content on-line has become extremely popular (audiovisual content is always more juicy than text), but what we can find today on-line is mostly user-generated content (websites like YouTube, Revver, MySpace, etc.). Many speakers before me outlined that during this conference: Audiovisual archives have to overcome many obstacles before they can start offering audiovisual content on-line (there are IPR issues, digitisation issues, preservation issues, metadata standardisation, etc.). The main challenge of the Video Active project is to overcome these barriers and create multilingual access to Europe ‘ s Television heritage.
We ‘ ve tried to achieve this goal mainly by selecting a balanced collection of television archive material.