The ENUMERATE Survey Report on Digitisation in Cultural Heritage Institutions 2012 represents the first major study into the current state of digitisation in Europe. It is the result of a survey carried out by the ENUMERATE Thematic Network, with the help of national coordinators, in 29 European countries. About 2000 institutions answered the open call to participate between January and March 2012. The survey asked …
Contents: 1. Semantic Web 2. Contextualisation of Contemporary Art 3. SKOS 4. DCA SKOS vocabulary 5. Bibliography Appendix: Milestone deliverable: LOD made practical This deliverable from the Digitsing Contemporary Art (DCA) project describes how to apply semantic web technologies in order to contextualise and enrich the information in contemporary art descriptions. It begins by introducing data descriptions using RDF and …
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) provides a special website with online education resources. It is called NFSA Digital Learning and it combines the former Screen Australia Digital Learning websites and NFSA’s online education resources. The thousands of video and audio clips are available for streaming and downloading using the Quicktime Player. For the enrichment of the …
Contents: 1 Table of Contents 2 List of Figures 3 List of Tables 4 Executive Summary 5 Introduction 6 Problems affecting Digital AV Contents 7 IT-based strategies against Digital AV Loss 8 Conceptual Risk Management Framework 9 Conclusions 10 References 11 Glossary This deliverable from the DAVID project addresses two major topics. First, the definition and implementation of IT strategies …
Contents: Introduction Preservation OAIS Authenticity and integrity Information packages Workflow schemas Developing a Preservation Metadata Dictionary Important Findings To Conclude About the Authors After a short introduction into the role of this audiovisual archive, the authors, who form the core of Sound and Vision’s Information Management Team, describe how the organisation has taken up the challenge to become a trustworthy …
Contents: Introduction 1. EUscreen Content and Workflow 2. The Front-end Design 3. The Linked Open Data Pilot 4. Conclusions and future work References The EUscreen initiative represents the European television archives and acts as a domain aggregator for Europeana, Europe’s digital library, which provides access to over 20 million digitized cultural objects. The main motivation for the initiative is to …
