EUscreenXLconference - Help us enrich and curate heritage AV materials!

At the EUscreenXL conference in Rome, between inspiring talks and innovative projects, people also participated in a workshop on Contextualization, which focused specifically on the question how AV contextualization practices can benefit best from the affordances of online publication. AV contextualization practices are a key part of the EUscreenXL project, reflected, amongst others, in an open access multi-media journal VIEW: Journal of European Television History and Culture and the EUscreen virtual exhibitions. Although several tools are currently being developed to explore and analyse digital audio-visual sources (AV), this workshop mainly focused on the next step: how to contextualize and re-use audio-visual materials online.

This activity is part of EUscreen endeavours to build a ‘contextualization community’, in the sense of a community of content providers, creators, archivists, scholars, researchers, students and the general audience, who would work and explore the audio-visual material offered on euscreen.eu. Their Core Collection will consist of ca. 60.000 historical items gathered from the audio-visual cultural heritage of 22 European countries. The purposes of the ‘contextualization community’ are to enrich and curate such content, as well as to experiment with other creative forms of online multimedia publication.

To learn more about the outcomes of this conference and the outcomes of this workshop you can read the EUscreen Blog.

What is EUscreenXL?

EUscreenXL is a project and best practice network which aims at improving and developing the EUscreen portal. It is a consortiuminvolving European audiovisual and broadcasting archives. EUscreenXL aligns audiovisual collections held throughout Europe and connects them within the audiovisual domain of Europeana, an online collection of millions of digitised items from European museums, libraries and archives.