Sian Barber (Queen’s University Belfast)Kamila Lewandowska (National Audiovisual Institute)

Rutger Rozendal (Noterik)

New EUscreen Portal

WHY NEW PORTAL?

1.000.000 metadata records

Task Force

1.000.000 metadata records

How did we do it?Editorial policy based on collaboration within the network (18 content partners)

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Danish Broadcasting Corporation

The National Library of Sweden Lietuvos Centrinis

Valstybės Archyvas

Česká Televize

Deutsche Welle

Instituto Luce Cinecittà

The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation

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Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française

Ireland’s National Public Service Broadcaster

Radiotelevizija Slovenija

Televisió de Catalunya

Romanian Public TelevisionThe Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Nemzeti Audiovizuális Archivum

Screen ArchiveSouth East

Rádio e Televisão de Portugal S.A.

Institut national de l'audiovisuel

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Narodowy Instytut Audiowizualny

HOW WE DID IT?

Subtitling / translations

Developing work on subtitling and translations

Identifying clips

Asked content providers to identify a short clip which could be captioned or easily translated

Asked content providers if they had .srt files created for the clips already or if they had English translations of the content.

Testing the process

• RTV Slovenia identified a clip (this clip was silent) • Katja then provided an English translation of what was

happening in the clip • I checked the translation and made a few changes • Started to break the translation into captions • Trying to keep the sense of what was happening in the

clip but making it easy to understand through shorter sentences

• Created these captions in basic notepad (no formatting) copying the requirements for .srt files which include timecoding

Creating the subtitle files

Text and Video together…

• Text not fitting image• Timings – was text on screen for long enough? • Some captions too long or too detailed• Captioning being done offline and using different media

players. Some problems with matching up timings• Also think about tone, language etc• How much to change? How much to keep the same even if

it sounds stilted

Key point: who is the translation for? - Is it about making the video understandable or is it about

providing a quality translation of EUscreen material?

Some issues…

Developing this work…

WHAT THE NEW PORTAL LOOKS LIKE?

• Video Highlights on the homepage

• Crucial dimensions for search

• Going mobile on tablet and phone

• New design with better interaction

Key improvements

Homepage with selected highlights

Selecting Highlightscherry picking videos for the portal visitors

with an appealing thumbnail text

Crucial dimensions for search

Quick updates on search results

Going mobile on tablet and phone

Going mobile on tablet and phone

Going mobile on tablet and phone

Final design and interaction

Doing a search on EUscreen

Item-page with all metadata

Showing series on EUscreen

EUscreen About page and Content map

The whole workflow on a mobile phone

Thank you!