| PrestoPRIME - Keeping Audiovisual Contents Alive Project informationAudiovisual content collections are undergoing a transformation from archives of analogue materials to very large stores of digital data. As time-based digital media and their related metadata are edited, re-used and re-formatted in a continuously evolving environment, the concept of the unique original loses its meaning and we require dynamic processes that can preserve indefinitely not only the audiovisual signal but also its evolving associations, context and rights. PrestoPRIME will research and develop practical solutions for the long-term preservation of digital media objects, programs and collections, and find ways to increase access by integrating the media archives with European on-line digital libraries in a digital preservation framework. This will result in a range of tools and services, delivered through a networked Competence Centre. PrestoPRIME will deliver an OAIS-compliant preservation framework capable of supporting the whole range of digital preservation operations in the long term. Besides risk management, content quality and corruption control measures, the framework will address audiovisual signal migration and multivalent preservation methods using federated services for distributing and storing content. PrestoPRIME and EuropeanaPrestoPRIME is the only FP7 Research and Development project the Europeana Foundation is a partner in at present. It is also the only project from the Europeana Projects Group that is not directly aimed at delivering content to Europeana. The project is, naturally, beneficial for Europeana as it caters for perpetual access to audiovisual archives of content owners. The project's area of work that is of particular interest to Europeana is dealing with long-term access to audiovisual content in evolving and emerging contexts and with cross-domain interoperability. PrestoPRIME will create a metadata conversion and deployment toolkit, a novel and efficient process for metadata vocabulary alignments, and will exploit semantic web technologies to improve annotation and services for user-generated content metadata. Additionally, Europeana will benefit from the expected developments in the area of audiovisual content provenance and tracking and of rights' handling. PrestoPRIME's registry of fingerprints will make it possible to identify reiterations of the same audiovisual fragment, thus, potentially making it possible to track down duplicates and share documentation among common contents. Finally, the project will propose a common and simplified model for rights' descriptions in the broadcasting domain and a common rights' ontology that can be embedded in and complement any Digital Rights Management system. Europeana foundation and Europeana contribute to the project with the important cross-domain interoperability knowledge that is being accumulated in the Europeana Projects Group and provide significant networking and dissemination opportunities for the Competence Center while ensuring that end-users will be able to have increasing and perpetual access to quality audiovisual content. Contacts
Daniel Teruggi, Project coordinator Links
Useful InformationFunding Program: 7th Framework Programme, Theme ICT Partners
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- co-funded by the European Union
