Europeana sends out a monthly newsletter, with a hand-picked, curated overview of what’s new on the portal. This month, the newest addition on the site is EUscreen – the content of which has been made available on Europeana thanks to the hard work of our consortium partners and the Europeana upload team.
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Conference: Screening the Future 2012
May 21-23, 2012, Los Angeles
Inspired by the success and enthusiasm of the Screening the Future conference in 2011, PrestoCentre presents Screening the Future 2012: Play, Pause and Press Forward. This year’s conference is organized by the PrestoCentre Foundation in collaboration with the University of Southern California, Shoah Foundation Institute and Digital Repository.
Screening the Future serves the global community of stakeholders who keep audiovisual content alive. This annual international conference brings together archivists, small and large archives, production companies, film makers, TV producers, service providers, vendors, funders, policymakers, and educators who are developing solutions to answer the most urgent questions facing audiovisual archives. With Play, Pause and Press Forward as the theme of this year’s conference, we explore the current status of audiovisual archives; the main challenges that archives and producers face in terms of IT, institutional position, and changes in use and market; and their future readiness.
Conference Themes
Master Classes
Timing, Venue and Conference Rate
The conference takes place from May 21-23, 2012 at the University of Southern California Ronald Tutor Campus Center, Los Angeles, USA. Discounted conference rate is available for PrestoCentre members.
For more information about the conference, registration and member discount visit http://2012.screeningthefuture.com or send an email to events@prestocentre.org
Critical Studies in Television publishes a series that draws attention to the inner workings of the different archive partners within EUscreen. This month the focus is on the TV Archives of Slovenia.The material covers important political events such as the beginning of the war of independence, federal soldiers leaving Slovenia at the end of the war in 1991and the creation of the new state in 1991 and its declaration of independence, as well as significant national events such as the celebration of international worker’s day in 1964, the visit of Pope John Paul II and the plebiscite for an independent Slovenia with a live broadcast from the press centre. The material also documents day to day life in Slovenia and includes an eclectic selection of programme footage including coverage of children being vaccinated against Polio in 1961, a day among the fishermen on the Sora River in 1970, the dangers of pollution and environmental concerns, a programme covering the mating habits of the moor frog which causes them to turn blue and the discovery of the world’s oldest musical instrument at Divje Babe, a flute which could date back to the time of the Neanderthals.
You can read the full article online at the Critical Studies in Television website. Next up in this series there will be articles from KB (Sweden), Sound and Vision (The Netherlands), ORF (Austria) and INA (France).
Join decision-makers and experts at the EBU Brussels office on Wednesday, 1 March 2012 to discover how public service media (PSM) facilitate citizenship through media literacy.
During the morning session, a TV show will highlight how PSM and their partners connect with their audiences across Europe through a diverse range of projects involving key stakeholders. In the afternoon, PSM professionals, literacy experts, European policy makers, civil society representatives and programmemakers will have the opportunity for a hands-on debate during parallel workshops.
One workshop will focus on a discussion of media literacy and empowerment towards democracy. In the other, participants will work towards creating a ‘toolkit’ to promote the principles of media literacy across the broadcast media and facilitate further exchange and cooperation with potential partners.
Register
You can register by using this link or click here to download the programme (pdf).
Media literacy is an essential skill for everyday life. The digital agenda for Europe includes a range of measures to promote increased access to high-speed broadband. However, better access does not in itself ensure that EU citizens make use of broadband network applications. PSM drives the uptake of digital technologies by facilitating universal public access to online tools, supplemented by subtitling or audio description, and the confidence to use them. By bridging the digital divide, PSM promotes empowerment and cultural diversity.
In an environment where citizens are beset by information, PSM play an important role in identifying credible sources of online information. As a trusted media outlet, they foster democratic participation by helping people analyse and evaluate public opinion and media messages. PSM also contribute to active citizenship by providing a platform for people to participate in the public sphere.
PSM play an important role in empowering citizens to use evolving media technologies to stimulate creativity, audience participation and innovation. Public Service Media are particularly committed to creating a safe, creative online digital environment for children and young adults. Campaigns, online tools and cross-media programmes enable children and others to play an active role in the media world.
10:00 Welcome coffee and registration
10:30 Welcome speech by Jean‐Paul Philippot, EBU President
10:40 Speech by Jan Truszczynski, Director‐General for Education, Training, Culture and Youth, European Commission
10:50 TV‐show featuring video footage of media literacy projects and short interviews - Presenter: Thomas Vanderveken (VRT, Belgian Flemish Radio & Television). With a key note speech by Ragna Wallmark (Planning Director, UR, Sweden) and including video footage and special guests from the BBC, Czech Television, WDR, RAI, Channel 4 and France Télévisions
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Workshops (in parallel)
Presentations are followed by a debate with the participation of Aviva Silver, Head of Unit, MEDIA programme and media literacy, European Commission and MEP Mary Honeyball, S&D Culture coordinator, European Parliament
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Workshop feedback and closing session (in plenary), with a closing speech by Zoran Stancic (DG INFSO, Deputy Director General).
Mark your calendars: EUscreen organises its third and final conference on the topic Television Heritage & the Web.
The conference takes places at ELTE University in Budapest, on Thursday, September 13, and Friday, September 14, 2012.
Attendance is free, but registration is required at: http://euscreen2012.eventbrite.com
Nationaal Archief / Spaarnestad Photo (Flickr Commons)
The television landscape is evolving at tremendous speed. According to Eric Schmidt, former CEO at Google, “the Internet is fundamental to the future of TV”. Most broadcasters are struggling to grasp the pitfalls and potentials of the net. Emerging viewing patterns involve increased interactivity, non-stop availabilty and the evidence of choice.
The current shift suggests new ways of looking, where a web-centric view becomes more and more popular. Broadcasters’ resources are being redirected to web based forms of TV and the ‘archive’ increasingly becomes an asset, since it can attract potential users online. The major question for audiovisual archives, educators and researchers these days, is what the current web-based shift implies for television heritage.
The EUscreen project puts more than 30.000 televisual items online in an act to make historical audiovisual content widely accessible. The conference Television Heritage & the Web attempts to discuss and analyse the potentials and pitfalls of the current media transition.
The programme of the conference will be published here soon.
The third annual Media & Learning Conference will take place in Brussels on 14-15 November 2012. Aimed at policy makers, service providers and practitioners, Media & Learning 2012 brings together a community of people interested in how media can be used to support learning across all sectors. It investigates topics such as media literacy and re-use of media based resources in education as well as broader issues related to innovation, creativity, ICT skills and digital competence.
Media & Learning 2012 is organised in collaboration with the Flemish Ministry of Education and Training and the European Commission Directorate-General for Education and Culture. The conference is held at the Flemish Ministry of Education and Training Headquarters in Brussels. The programme will consist of many new features, including debates, exchanges and online elements. It also includes the annual awards ceremony for the MEDEA Awards, as well as presentations and input from all finalists in the 2012 competition.
The conference builds on the success of Media & Learning 2011, where EUscreen demonstrated its portal to a target group of education professionals and took part in a discussion on business models. All this amidst a packed programme, full of talks, discussions and demonstrations. The 2011 conference attracted over 298 people from 39 countries.
Season’s greetings with some of the highlights (and lowlights) of the over 150 Christmas related items on the EUscreen portal:
Now see for yourself what you can dig up and take your lucky festive dip at: www.euscreen.eu
Mirrored Video at the Cinema Museum, Turin, Italy. Image from Flickr by ezioman.
Contributions are welcome for Volume 2 of the Journal of European Television History and Culture, which is the first peer-reviewed multi-media e-journal in the field of television studies.
Call for Papers: Vol. 2 September 2012.
Deadlines:
500 word proposals: January 5th, 2012.
2-4,000 word articles: April 1st, 2012.
Offering an international platform for outstanding academic research on television, the journal has an interdisciplinary profile and acts both as a platform for critical reflection on the cultural, social and political role of television in Europe’s past and present as well as a multi-media platform for the circulation and use of digitized audiovisual material.
Our main aim is to function as a showcase for a creative and innovative use of digitised television material in scholarly work. At the same time, the journal intends to stimulate the fruitful discussion between audiovisual heritage institutions (especially television archives) and a broader community of television experts and amateurs. In offering a unique technical infrastructure for a multi-media presentation of critical reflections on European television, the journal aims at stimulating innovative narrative forms of online storytelling, making use of the digitized audiovisual collections of television archives around Europe.
The focus of Vol 2 of the journal, due for publication in September 2012, will be Europe on and Behind the Screens.
Proposals are invited on (but not limited to) the following topics:
For our “discovery”-section, a platform dedicated to present latest developments and initiatives in the field of audiovisual heritage institutions and television archives, we especially invite contributions dealing with past experiences and future challenges of collaborations between television scholars and audiovisual heritage institutions. These essays (2.500 words) should reflect on the practical challenges of doing television research in an archival or academic environment.
Please send your abstracts no later than 5h of January, 2012 to the managing editor of the journal, Dana Mustata: journal@euscreen.eu
Report by Sian Barber
Friday 2nd December 2011 saw the UK launch of the new EUscreen portal. This event took place at the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) Annual General Meeting at the Royal Geological Society in Piccadilly, London. Eve Oesterlen from BUFVC and Dr Sian Barber from Royal Holloway University of London presented the EUscreen project to an audience of 70 guests.
The focus of the event was ‘more access’ and a variety of presentations on different projects demonstrated how this issue informs and influences BUFVC activity and how the EUscreen project fits into this agenda.
Sian Barber outlined the aims of the EUscreen project and highlighted the innovative nature of the content selection policy, explaining how functionalities like the virtual exhibitions and the content provider special collections will offer different user experiences from the rest of the portal. The technical side of the project was also used to demonstrate the complexities of EUscreen with Eve Oesterlen offering a brief overview of the challenges of the metadata scheme and working with different partners, different languages and individual workflows. Sian then suggested how EUscreen content could be used and drew attention to this material as a useful resource for students, scholars, teachers and casual browsers. The presentation and portal launch focused on the objectives of the project, what has been achieved so far and how EUscreen content offers exciting research and teaching and learning possibilities. The presentation concluded with a showing of the EUscreen promotional video and a suggestion that the audience explore the EUscreen portal for themselves. Following the presentations, a number of people queried what would happen to the EUscreen site and its material once the project was completed. It was felt that such careful work and such rich content should remain available as a resource.
Launching the EUscreen portal at this event offered the site to a new audience of those who work with audiovisual resources within education. The enthusiastic response of many people to the EUscreen portal, its content selection policy and detailed metadata schema demonstrates that there is a great deal of interest in the project and that the material is viewed as a useful resource for both teaching and learning.
Other highlights of the day included a presentation by Hetty Malcolm-Smith on the BUFVC Shared Services project. This ambitious project is based on a feasibility study and aims to link up the BUFVC collections of TRILT and TVTip with BoB National and data feeds from broadcasters, Channel 4 press packs and Higher and Further Education Institutions. The project also aims to include access to VHS recordings to help create the richest source of data for education in the UK and will begin by evaluating the possibilities of such a service.
One of the key resources for the shared service project will be the Channel 4 Press packs which are currently being fully digitised as part of the 1980s project at the University of Portsmouth. Dr Justin Smith (Portsmouth) and Linda Kaye (BUFVC) introduced this four year project which began in April 2010 which will have academic outputs but will also offer a context to the digitisation process. Each page of the press packs will be created as a PDF file to ensure that it can be individually identified and to improve access for the end user. Digitising the material in this way also offers access to the related and contextual data which surrounds the core information.
The final presentation of the day focused on other projects which involve the BUFVC, notably the Chronicle project; a collaboration with JISC and the BBC which will provide restricted access to news material from BBC Northern Ireland from the 1960s and 1970s.
EUscreen’s technical coordinator, Johan Oomen, gave the following presentation at Europeana’s CCPA AGM on the 6th December 2011 at the DISH Conference in Rotterdam:
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