filmstandards.org – Metadata Standards for Cinematographic Works

Contents: News Standards and Specifications Projects and Applications Talks and Dissemination filmstandards.org is een wiki-achtige portal gespecialiseerd in metadata voor bewegend beeld. Met name richt de website zich op de projecten MIDAS en EFG en de metadataschema’s die deze projecten voortbrengen. Met name de CEN TC 372 metadata standaarden:EN 15744 Film identification — Minimum set of metadata for cinematographic works    (een …

Survey Report on Digitisation in European Cultural Heritage Institutions

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 …

Access to film heritage in the digital era – Challenges and opportunities

Unlike archiving most other artifacts and objects, film preservation has always been heavily dependent on industry practice. The complicated and vast machinery involved in shooting, duplication, processing and projection of new films has been the same ones used for preserving and presenting film heritage. The recent shift from analogue to digital technology in capture, post-production and distribution of cinematographic works …

Cultural Heritage – Digitisation, online accessibility and digital preservation

This report reviews and assesses the overall progress achieved in the European Union in implementing Commission Recommendation of 27 October 2011 on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation (2011/711/EU), as well as the related Council Conclusions of 10 May 2012. The Commission presented a first report in 2008, with its Communication ‘Europe’s cultural heritage at …