DIGITAL

BIRTH - Building of an Interactive Research and delivery network for Television Heritage

Aus mehr als 50 eingereichten Projektproposals wurde das Projekt BIRTH im Rahmen des Media+ Programmes der EU als Pilotprojekt ausgewählt.

The project BIRTH aims at building up a multimedia-based, multilingual pool of archive material from the first broadcasting days 50 years ago for online access by different user-groups. Audiovisual content as well as accompanying text and photographic material will be collected from six major European broadcast archives in order to give online access to the first years of European television-history in a way it has never been presented before. Both factual information and the atmospheric ′touch′ of a new media´s early days will be accessible to the user. This implies

  • research and collection of representative audiovisual material from ′TV´s early days′,
  • transfer of the material to a digital long-term preservation format and the generation of digital preview material,
  • implementation of an on-line archive pool for TV archive material containing both metadata and audiovisual material.