"Heimkehr", DE 1928. Quelle: Murnau-Stiftung, Deutsches Filminstitut
Project presentation
Co-funded by the Community Programme ICT- PSP
Content
EFG1914: What is it about?
Consortium: Archives and further partners
Structure: How is the work organised?
Related projects
EFG1914: What is it about?
"Heimkehr", DE 1928. Quelle: Murnau-Stiftung, Deutsches Filminstitut
Key figures
EU Programme: ICT-PSP, Pilot type B
Reference number: 297266
Start: 15 February 2012
Total costs: 4.200.000 €
2.100.000 EUR Community contribution
Duration: 24 months
25 partners including 20 film archives & cinémathèques
Follow-up project of EFG – The European Film Gateway
Objectives
Digitisation of 654 hours of film
Digitisation of ca. 5.600 film-related objects
Making the digitised content available online through the
European Film Gateway and Europeana
Adapting the EFG aggregation system and portal to the needs
of EFG1914
Build a virtual exhibition around themes of WWI, based on
the EFG infrastructure
www.europeanfilmgateway.eu
www.europeana.eu
Consortium: Archives and
other partners
"Heimkehr", DE 1928. Quelle: Murnau-Stiftung, Deutsches Filminstitut
20 archives, providers of content
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Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF, Frankfurt (co-ordinator)
Arhiva Nationala de Filme, Bucharest
Centre National du cinéma et de l’Image animée, Bois d’Arcy
Cinecittà Luce, Rome
Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels
Cineteca di Bologna, Bologna
Det Danske Filminstitut, Copenhagen
Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin
Estonian Film Archive, Talinn
EYE Filminstituut Nederland, Amsterdam
Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna
Filmoteca Espanola, Madrid
Fondazione Cineteca Italiana, Milan
Imperial War Museum, London
IVAC, Valencia
Jugoslovenska Kinoteka, Belgrade
MaNDA, Budapest
Národní filmový archiv, Prague
Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo
Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna
5 further partners: providers of infrastructures,
services and technologies
Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (Dissemination)
Athena Research and Innovation Center (Virtual Exhibition
conceptualization and implementation)
CNR-ISTI (Adapting the EFG information space, implementing
technical mappings)
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS (Digitisation, digital
preservation consultancy)
Reelport (Hosting & Streaming of videos for archives which do not
want to do this on their own servers)
Structure: how is the
work organised?
"Heimkehr", DE 1928. Quelle: Murnau-Stiftung, Deutsches Filminstitut
9 Work packages
WP No
Title
WP leader
WP 1
Content selection and monitoring
DFI (Copenhagen)
WP 2
Digitisation planning, preparation
and best practice
DFI (Copenhagen)
WP 3
Transfer and mastering film to digital
format
EYE (Amsterdam)
WP 4
Ingest, encoding and access
CRB (Brussels)
WP 5
DIF (Frankfurt)
WP 7
Digitisation and delivery of non-film
material
Interoperability with EFG and
Europeana
Virtual Exhibition
WP 8
Dissemination and awareness
ACE (Frankfurt/Brussels)
WP 9
Co-ordination and management
DIF (Frankfurt)
WP 6
CNR-ISTI (Pisa)
Athena RC (Athens)
Workflow
WP1: Content selection and monitoring
WP Leader: Det Danske Filminstitut
Main tasks:
 Content selection plan
 Digitisation plan and schedule
 Monitoring the digitisation progress
WP2: Digitisation planning, preparation
and best practice
WP Leader: Det Danske Filminstitut, supported by
Fraunhofer IIS
Main tasks:
 Physical selection of film elements
 Identification of copyright and orphan works
 Workshop on digitisation best practice
 Specification of formats and processes for digitisation,
handling and encoding of the digital data
WP3: Transfer and mastering film to digital format
WP Leader: EYE Film Instituut
Nederland, supported by Fraunhofer
IIS
Main tasks:
 Tender for transfer of film to video
master
 Physical preparation of films for
transfer
 Transfer of film to digital master /
transfer oversight
WP4: Ingest, encoding and access
WP Leader: Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique
Main tasks:
 Implementation of ingest & encoding hardware and
software
 Training in ingestion and encoding
 Encoding of uncompressed digital master files
 Metadata wrapping/tagging (task leader DIF)
 Batch re-encoding and delivery of distribution files
WP5: Digitisation and delivery of non-film material
WP Leader: Deutsches Filminstitut
Main tasks:
 Physical selection and preparation of
non-AV source material
 rights clearance
 Scanning and re-formatting
 Ingest and indexing
WP6: Interoperability with EFG and Europeana
WP Leader: CNR-ISTI, supported by Deutsches Filminstitut
Main tasks:
 OAI-PMH exports: partner archive upgrades
 Extension of EFG common schema and definition of
mappings
 Extension of the EFG aggregation system
 Metadata ingest
WP7: Virtual exhibition
WP Leader: Athena Research and Innovation Center
Main tasks:
 Virtual exhibition concept and specification
 Technical implementation
 Curation and editorial work
WP8: Dissemination and awareness
WP Leader: Association des Cinémathèques Européennes
Main tasks:
 Overall coordination and planning of dissemination activity
 Maintaining project website and presentation
 Concertation with Europeana
 General concertation
WP9: Co-ordination and management
WP Leader: Deutsches Filminstitut
Main tasks:
 Financial co-ordination
 Internal consortium management and co-ordination
 Overall monitoring
 Liaision with the European Commission
Related WWI projects
Europeana 1914-1918: collects memorabilia and stories from
the period of the Great War
www.europeana1914-1918
Europeana collections 1914-1918: digital collection of
material from national libraries about WWI
www.europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu
EFG1914 Project website
www.project.efg1914.eu
Contact
efg@deutsches-filminstitut.de
"Heimkehr", DE 1928. Quelle: Murnau-Stiftung, Deutsches Filminstitut