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> About FIRST |
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European Film Heritage and digital technologies: a need for Standards
Film Heritage is an important part of the European history and of its cultural identity. This heritage represents a pivotal asset for contemporary cultural industry and archival films provide content for broadcasters and cable-TVs, for a growing DVD market, for broadband applications and multimedia products as well as for contemporary productions.
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> Members of the Consortium |
FIRST is a well-balanced consortium assembling complementary skills and expertise, essential to draw an organic picture of the film restoration perspectives face to digitization and other technological challenges.
Through its members, the partnership covers a large number of “stakeholders”, bodies and institutions interested in the issue of digitization and Film Heritage.
FIRST will also invite many other bodies and individuals to participate in its work.
Discussions, meetings, workshops and seminars organised by FIRST will be shared with many others:
hardware manufacturers, software developers, commercial broadcasters, copyright owners, service providers, professional organisation, content owners and providers, IPO’s and broadband operators, other public or private archives
The Partners of FIRST are:
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> Working Groups |
The comprehensiveness of the approach is reflected in the areas of research that will be analysed and discussed over a two-year activity.
FIRST direct objectives are to set up five working groups gathering experts on film conservation related issues that have been identified as vital for the sector through a large debate including representatives from the world of conservation institutions and the industry:
FIRST is an unprecedented opportunity to a wide-angled evaluation of the issues involved in the application of digital to Film Heritage. From the cultural perspective of preserving and restoring the film collections - the focus will be guaranteed by the fact that the Project is coordinated by ACE - but also from the commercial point of view of the potential use of the restored and digitised images for a larger, modern market of communication and mass media. |
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Working Groups
The Calendar and the Results.
The results of the work will be organised around three major moments, each representing the issuing of a public report addressed to the audience of interested bodies and Institutions.
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Archival film digitization
To perform a state of the art survey on four research areas in order to provide the basis for the choice of basic principles, necessary in the pre-standardisation phase.
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Restoration by digital processes for different purposes (Archival, TV, DVD, etc…)
To provide a set of recommendations on restoration related issues. The analysis will be conducted from the point of view of the cost/benefit ratio by taking into account differentiated uses and multipurpose processes.
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Storage technologies and policies of digitised archives
To provide recommendations on storage technologies on the basis of a cost/benefit analysis of storage costs for different uses and by taking into account quality requirements for medium-long term conservation.
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Cataloguing and retrieval of digitised film archives with focus on on-line management and retrieval
To explore the possibilities of interaction between the digitization processes on the one hand and the moving image retrieval on the other.
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Strategies for distribution and access of digitised archive material with focus on on-line management and delivery
To design the concept of “business modelling” in order to help users focusing their strategies to boost the valorisation of their collections via digitization of the film materials.
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