ICT PSP, Best Practice Network, 2.2 EUROPEAN DIGITAL LIBRARY AGGREGATING DIGITAL CONTENT IN Europeana, started: 01/07/2010, duration: 36 months ECLAP: European Collected Library of Artistic Performance
ECLAP: European Collected Library of Artistic Performance
The richness and value of the European performing arts heritage is unquestionable. Even though these collections are now being digitized and published online, they remain scattered, and coordination is lacking between digital libraries and the performing arts field; however, there is a high demand for access to this content. The European Collected Library of Artistic Performance (ECLAP) <http://www.eclap.eu/> fills this gap by creating a considerable, and hitherto missing, online archive for all the performing arts in Europe, and providing solutions and tools to help performing arts institutions to enter the digital Europe by building a network of important European performing arts institutions and archives and publishing content collections on Europeana, the European Digital Library <http://www.europeana.org>.
ECLAP is creating a Best Practice Network, making use of advanced database and delivery tools for the production and dissemination of the rich multilingual European heritage. This will result in cultural enrichment and promotion of European culture, and in improvements in learning and research in the field of performing arts.
The major objectives of ECLAP are to:
- Bring together Europe's most relevant performing arts content, content never before accessible via the Internet, coming from major institutions; performing art material coming from theatre, dance, music, cinema and film, etc.: representing performances, lessons, master classes, teaching material, etc., in the forms of videos, audio, documents, images, animations, playlists, annotations, interactive content, etc.; available through ECLAP portal and published on Europeana
- Create a stable and open best practice network of European performing art institutions, to help them to exploit digital content and to talk about new technologies and tools
- Providing solutions and services to major performing arts institutions such as: content ingestion, metadata enrichment, content distribution, content aggregation into Europeana, IPR management, content channel visibility, play lists, annotations, multilingual semantic/fuzzy search queries, partner/colleague search, etc.
- Provide solutions and services for a variety of users: teachers, students, performers, researchers, and performing arts lovers for edutainment, infotainment and entertainment
The ECLAP solution is establishing facilities to provide Best Practice Network users and partners many functionalities. Notably through ECLAP, users are able to:
- Search, retrieve and play extensive high quality multilingual content
- Enrich and contextualize content
- Upload and share multilingual content
- Comment, annotate, rate and vote on content
- Register and network with others
- Create discussion groups
- Upload digital resources for professional and User Generated Content
- Use tools to solve IPR issues
- Access all content via different devices such as PCs, tablets and smartphones
The technical infrastructure is based on the well-tested components such as: the open source AXMEDIS platform, open standards as XML, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL and SKOS. Web Services API's allow third parties and applications to access the ECLAP services. Partners also active in the Europeana V1.0 project establish full integration with Europeana.
The Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, partner of ECLAP, has the responsibility to coordinate the Working group (C) on Best Practices Tools for performing art digital libraries and education.
This WG will define Best Practices Tools for:
- digital library organisation and tools
- content integration and migration tools and solutions
- content consistency and versioning
- automated material preparation (letterboxing, format conversion, compression) and posting
- video and audio subtitling, user-assisted subtitling
- collecting and processing user-generated content
- metadata modelling and gathering
- semantics modelling, processing and descriptors, integration with classical metadata
- interoperability with other solutions, archives, CMS, DMS, projects, SN, protocols, etc.
- integration of cluster recommendations with internal networking
Moreover has the responsibility to set up and maintain the user group for ECLAP project.
