Other projects related to the ethnoArc project

BRICKS project

BRICKS will create the organisational and technological basis for a shared European Digital Memory (EDM). EDM is conceived as an open, networked system to integrate distributed collections of multimedia resources in museums, libraries and archives.

BRICKS homepage

MULTIMATCH project

MultiMATCH plans to develop a multilingual search engine specifically designed for access, organisation and personalised presentation of cultural heritage information.

MULTIMATCH homepage

PRESTOSPACE project

Institutions traditionally responsible for preserving audio-visual collections (broadcasters, research institutions, libraries, museums, etc.) now face major technical, organisational, resource related, and legal challenges in taking on the migration to digital formats and the preservation of already digitised holdings. The project's objective is to provide technical solutions and integrated systems for digital preservation of all types of audio-visual collections.

PRESTOSPACE homepage

EASAIER project

EASAIER will offer enhanced access to sound archives through the integration of speech and music processing, cross-media retrieval and interactivity tools.

EASAIER homepage

MOSAICA project

MOSAICA proposes a new approach for offering Semantically Enhanced, Multifaceted, Collaborative Access to Cultural Heritage. It relies on :

• Knowledge based discovery and presentation of cultural assets
• An interactive and creative user experience

The MOSAICA platform will be designed to use widely distributed cultural heritage for promoting cultural pluralism, religious and cultural tolerance. A proof of concept will be obtained through a pilot implementation focused on the Jewish Culture and History.

MOSAICA homepage

European Digital Library Network (EDLnet)

EDLnet is a thematic network to build consensus for creating the European Digital Library. EDLnet aims to find solutions to the interoperability of the cultural content held by European museums, archives, audio-visual archives and libraries in the context of The European Digital Library.

The results of the network will be a prototype demonstrating cross domain access to the objects and information held in the museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual archives of Europe. There will also be a series of recommendations for future research to continue to ensure access to the digital heritage of Europe.

EDLnet homepage

Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe

TAPE has published web-based guidelines for digitisation. They describe the digitisation workflow for analogue open reel tapes as a step by step approach for the production of digital copies from analogue tapes from a technical point of view. Most of the workflow may also be applied to audio cassettes. The workflow was written by Juha Henriksson (Finnish Jazz & Pop Archive) & Nadja Wallaszkovits (Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences).

The workflow is mainly aimed at newcomers in the world of audio tape digitization. It contains references to other literature and many detailed photographs.

You will find the workflow at http://www.jazzpoparkisto.net/audio/

The TAPE project, Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe, http://www.tape-online.net, is supported by the Culture 2000-programme of the EU.