This work finds its origin in the second EBU Digital Strategy Group on Archives, Ad-hoc Group 2.
The original goal was to define a common core set of information through which archives would be searched, e.g. through web portals. However, the scope of the specification is now larger than archives.
Different European projects are developing the concept of archive portals with the ultimate goal to contribute to the European Digital Library, through which content provided by national libraries, museum and video archives would be searched, accessed and consulted on-line within Europe.
In all cases, the same working principles and tools apply:
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Metadata is harvested/collected from participating servers in a predefined format and according to well established protocols (typically OAI/PMH)
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The information is processed and indexed to optimise search.
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A user interface is published through which users can search the information preliminary contributed.
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According to rights, content is consulted on line or downloaded from the original content contributor (content doesn't have to be preliminary uploaded to a central server)
The EBU core metadata set is proposed to aggregate information within the EBU community. The Dublin Core used in the EBU Core Metadata Set will allow EBU Members to contribute to Europeana (the European Digital Library Project in collaboration with National Libraries and Museums), and EUScreen (a European project to provide access to broadcasters audiovisual resource with a participation of several EBU members and lin liaison with Europeana).
The specification has been published as Tech 3293 and is available for fownload. The schema and associated resources are accessible from links provided in the'download zone' within the specification.
Comments are invited via the maintenance page.
