Exploring Europe’s Television Heritage in the Digital Age

General Aims Heritage – as a practice of memory Memory – mediated through television Identity – memorialisation of TV-history through increased use of archival material

a European funded project that aims What is EUscreen? a European funded project that aims to stimulate the use of television archive content for the widest range of European user constituencies and communities and thus to advance active engagement with the cultural memory of Europe both at a national and a European level

European Television History Network: aim of the network is to cluster and integrate European research activities in the field of television history and to develop a cultural comparative approach to European television history. Acknowledging the need for close cooperation between television archives and television scholars.

EUscreen is co-ordinated by the University of Utrecht The consortium is comprised of 27 partners from 19 EU member states (including Switzerland)

Target Users Four main sectors will benefit from the outcomes of the project: - Education - Media Professionals - General Public - Cultural Heritage domain

Users are usually starting from Google or Wikipedia 10/06/2018 EUscreen Users are usually starting from Google or Wikipedia Sometimes they go directly to an individual content provider, usually if they are looking for something specific If a user searches for the Berlin wall it is very unlikely that an individual content provider’s av content will appear high in google He is most likely to get to your content when he is searching in a big portal that also opens up their metadata to google and ranks high there together with wikipedia…Europeana Image: Jill Cousins 8

EUscreen Objectives O1: To develop technical solutions to support harmonized and highly interoperable audiovisual collections. O2: To provide the necessary technical solutions that Europeana needs to be able to support audiovisual content. O3: To create demand and user-led access to television content from broadcasters and archives across the whole of Europe.  O4: To develop and evaluate a number of scenarios amongst a range of users, including the research learning and leisure sectors. O5: To build a community (network) of content providers, standardisation bodies, television research partners and users, and to build and share knowledge among these on the key issues and challenges relevant to the audiovisual heritage domain and beyond.

EUscreen Challenges (1) Metadata Evaluating and defining common metadata schemas and standard interfaces and protocols to grant semantic, technical and cultural interoperability (also being fully interoperable with the EDL application profile)

EUscreen Challenges (2) IPR issues Clearance of rights for television programming has proven to be both costly and time consuming Publishing sometimes only allowed within national borders EUscreen will have a flexible technical architecture, to allow material to be physically located in any of the partner locations – as well as supporting streaming from the central website server Taking into account IPR in developing metadata, schema which will become available in RDF format Developing models for inclusion of non-factual and entertainment forms of content where holdings and IPR allow Searching and developing unified strategies and approaches to IPR and to influence the development of pan-European policy and legislation

EUscreen Challenges (3) Interoperability (metadata, technical approach)

Contributing to a European continuum of cultural heritage Television Archive Content (35.000 items): -Earliest recordings of TV on film and (filmed) TV programmes Genre approach: factual programmes, but also non-factual and entertainment forms Topic approach: relevant in the history of television in Europe and in the history of Europe on television Reflecting the cultural and historical similarities and differences of television from across the European Union -Other data such as clippings from TV guides and stills