AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVAL ACCESS PROJECT
PROFESSOR JOHN ELLISMEDIA ARTS
ROYAL HOLLOWAY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
THE PROJECT
30,000 ITEMS OF AUDIO-VISUAL CONTENT FROM THE ARCHIVES OF EUROPE’S
BROADCASTERSSEARCHABLE IN NINE LANGUAGES
STREAMED TO ANY USERAVAILABLE TO ALL
Connected to:
Funded by the European Commission within the eContentplus programme www.euscreen.eu
THE TEAM
• Consortium: - 28 Partners - Broadcasters, archives, technologists, academic
partners and educationalists - 20 Content Providers - 19 Countries
• Synergy with Europeana (TV aggregator)• EUscreen Best Practice Network• Budget €4.3m (total €5.85m) • 36 months (2009-2012)
Archives
Technology providers
Research organisations
Associate partners
THE STORY
VideoActive (2006-9)• RHUL proposed by BBC, ‘recognised’ by U.Utrecht• RHUL’s Videoactive role: organise content
categories, uploading, commentaryEUscreen: follow-on project 2009-12• RHUL brings in BUFVC as ‘metadata police’• One-to-one and group discussions on principles• Interface between content providers and
technology providers
Research or administration?
• Speed of slowest• Creating a shared vision: misunderstanding
the project / mistaken assumptions• Promises not kept / work not done• Technology provider problem (when isn’t
there one?)• Endless telcos and emails• The role of the English language
The money
• eContentplus programme “a multiannual Community programme to make digital content in Europe more
accessible, usable and exploitable”
• 80% EU, 20% institutional contribution• ‘Person hours’ ‘allowable expenses’... But no
overheads• Currency exchange gains (or losses)• Pays for two colleagues... And some more...