Exploring Europe's Television Heritage in Changing Contexts
‘Presenting’ Television History:
The Challenges of EUscreen
Sian Barber
Royal Holloway, University of
London
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Funded by the European Commission within the eContentplus programme
www.euscreen.eu
Introduction to EUscreen
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Three-year project which began in
October 2009 with a project
consortium made up of 28 partners
(archives, universities and technology
providers) from 19 European countries
to provide access to digitised audiovisual content from across Europe.
Funded by the European Commission within the eContentplus programme
www.euscreen.eu
EUscreen project partners
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Connected to:
ATiT
British Universities Film & Video
Council
Ceská Televize
Cinecittà Luce
Danmarks Radio
Deutsche Welle
Eötvös Loránd University
Europeana Foundation
European Broadcasting Union
Hellenic National Audiovisal Archive
Institut National de l’Audiovisuel
Kungliga Biblioteket
Maastricht University
National Technical University of
Athens
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Nederlands Insituut voor Beeld en
Geluid
Noterik
Osterreichische Rundfunk
Radio-Télévision Belge de la
Communauté Française
Radiotelevisione Italiana
Radiotelevizija Slovenija
Raidió Teilifís Éirann
Royal Holloway University of London
TAIK Aalto University School of Arts
and Design
Televisió de Catalunya
Televiziunea Româna
Telewizja Polska
Utrecht University
Vlaamse Radio & Televisie
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EUscreen mission statement
“Although audiovisual content is now being digitised and
some of it is already available online, access to
audiovisual archives, television in particular, remains
fractured and scattered.
EUscreen has developed a content selection policy and
metadata framework that aligns the heterogeneous
collections held throughout Europe and encourages the
exploration of Europe’s rich and diverse cultural history
and European television history in particular.
As one of the main audiovisual content aggregators for
Europeana, EUscreen and its collection is also connected
to an online collection of millions of digitized items from
European museums, libraries and archives.”
Connected to:
www.euscreen.eu
Funded by the European Commission within the eContentplus programme
www.euscreen.eu
Video Active
http://www.videoactive.eu/VideoActi
ve/Home.do
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http://www.videoactive.eu/VideoActi
ve/VideoDetails.do?id=VA_BBC200
71011173302903&sw=berlin%20w
all&curitem=10&curpage=3
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www.euscreen.eu
EUscreen content selection
policy
10%
Historical
Topics
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70%
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Content
Provider
Exhibitions
Comparative
Exhibitions
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Comparative Virtual
Exhibitions (CVE’s)
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• Each content provider to supply 5%
of total content to two separate
CVE’s
• Content shaped and developed by
an editorial team
• Opportunity to consider a topic or
subject in depth and in a discursive
and informed way
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www.euscreen.eu
A possible topic?
The fall of the Berlin Wall
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Connected to:
P. Major, In the Shadow of the Wall: True stories from Berlin’s
Divided Past (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
J.P.S Gearson and K.A Schake, The Berlin Wall crisis:
Perspectives on Cold War Alliances (New York : Palgrave
Macmillan, 2002)
E. Schurer, M. Keune and P. Jenkins, The Berlin Wall:
Representations and Perspectives (New York : P. Lang, 1996)
M. Meyer, The year that changed the world: The untold story
behind the fall of the Berlin Wall (London: Simon & Schuster,
2009)
J. A. Engel, The fall of the Berlin Wall: The revolutionary legacy
of 1989 (New York : Oxford University Press, 2009)
P. Konstantin, There is no freedom without bread: 1989 and the
civil war which brought down communism (New York: Farrar,
Straus, and Giroux, 2009)
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References:
H. Wheatley, (Ed) Re-viewing television history: Critical issues in
television historiography. (London: IB Tauris and Co Ltd, 2007)
P. Sorlin, ‘Historians at the Crossroads: Cinema, Television and
After’, in G. Roberts and P. Taylor (Eds) The Historian,
Television and Television History (Luton: University of Luton
Press, 2001)
L. Jordanova, History in Practice, (London: Hodder Arnold, 2000)
J. Bignell and A. Fickers (Ed), A European Television History
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Oxford, 2008)
Connected to:
L. Cigonetti, ‘Historians and Television Archives’ in G. Roberts and
P. Taylor (Eds) The Historian, Television and Television History
(Luton: University of Luton Press, 2001)
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