From April to June 2012, second year student Tjerk Smit from the Communication Media and Design course in Amsterdam performed his internship at the Research & Devopment department of Sound and Vision. During those ten weeks he explored new ways for visualising the data of the items from the EUscreen collection. In this blog post he tells us…
Call for papers for Comunicazioni sociali, I, 2013 The Commercialization of Television Systems in Europe and its Consequences Monographic issue. Accepted languages: English, Italian, and French Issue Co-editors: Massimo Scaglioni, Luca Barra (Università Cattolica di Milano) One of the most compelling and current challenges for television studies is to work on the edge of national and…
Second Status Report Released EUscreen is pleased to announce its second status report Online Access to Audiovisual Heritage. In three chapters, the report gives an overview of technological developments bearing an influence on publishing and making accessible historical footage. The report discusses online heritage practices within Europe and beyond. In a field that faces constant…
Every year NECS, the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, brings together a remarkable amount of archivists and scholars from all over the continent. After London, Lund and Istanbul, the 2012 NECS conference “Time Networks: Screen Media and Memory” took place in Lisbon on 21-23 June. Several of the papers given over the course of this three day event were particularly relevant to EUscreen. Conference report by Erwin Verbruggen and Berber Hagedoorn
More Context for Content Over the past two and a half years, EUscreen has been sourcing all kinds of content and has worked closely with developers and designers to make this rich and varied collection accessible online. The EUscreen portal currently hosts over 21,000 items which relate to television history and the history of Europe…