Consolidated Moving Image and Sound Database Framework

英国拥有丰富的电影和广播材料遗产。这可以为过去100多年的生活提供重要的见解。对于从医学到时尚，从语言学到地理学的许多学科的研究人员来说，这是一个很难开发的资源。越来越多的档案电视和电影内容现在可以在网上向公众（如Pathe，BBC档案收藏）或学术研究界（如。ITN新闻通过JISC的Newsfilm Online，BUFVC收藏，BFI InView）。对于那些只能通过其他方式（如档案馆访问）获取的收藏品，现在已有在线目录。随着数字化和版权谈判的进行，更多的内容将被发布。然而，这些内容通常是作为“收藏品”准备和交付的。在你看之前，你必须知道你可能在哪里找到东西。没有一个地方可以让你搜索关于特定主题的内容，从电影新闻电影，电视或广播中查找材料。这个项目将为BUFVC开发和/或管理的九个数据库提供一个通用的可扩展的搜索界面，从而建立一个这样的地方。这些材料涵盖了从最早的电影新闻片到下周的电视节目。它将使一个对南斯拉夫解体感兴趣的研究人员能够在一个地方和一个时刻发现：-当代ITN报道-英国广播公司1995年的“历史初稿”纪录片系列“南斯拉夫之死”-南斯拉夫历史的背景镜头来自蒂托的游击队的新闻片镜头-10分钟的Visnews背景历史简历。它将使地理学家能够找到从电影开始到现在的同一地点或同一自然现象的镜头;传记作家可以发现他们的主题以及他们参与的任何其他节目的许多广播和电视采访。在任何时候，材料的性质和出处都将被清楚地表明：20世纪30年代的新闻纪录片与20世纪60年代的电视新闻有着非常不同的“感觉”，就像20世纪60年代的新闻与今天的新闻一样。理解内容的起源是恢复其含义并将其重新用于当代目的的关键。在这一过程中，内容来源集合的性质仍然至关重要，同样重要的是，在尚未以在线数字化形式提供内容的情况下，寻找内容的过程也同样必要。在有内容的情况下，一个嵌入式超链接将使其能够作为搜索和发现过程的一部分进行预览，该界面将使研究人员能够选择过滤器以排除不相关的材料。它将具有强烈的视觉设计。作为该项目的一部分，将与来自广泛学科的研究人员广泛测试接口的设计，该项目将创建一个框架，以便在获得进一步信息时能够并将其插入其中。一旦到位，任何相关信息（例如来自BBC或海外档案）都可以轻松整合。BUFVC在向学术部门提供运动图像数据方面有60年的历史，由JISC提供核心资金，拥有超过90%的英国高等教育机构成员。因此，BUFVC对该数据框架的持续管理和扩展得到了保证。另外两个功能将确保该数据库和界面保持活力和不断增长的实体。支持整合BUFVC策展中现有九个数据库的软件将由BUFVC开发，并将考虑向开源社区发布。其次，该界面的Web 2.0方面将允许用户输入自己的信息：指向特定镜头的超链接、更详细的元数据和自由文本描述、上下文材料、已发表的学术研究工作等。

The UK has a rich heritage of film and radio material. This can provide crucial insights into life during the past 100 and more years. It is a hardly tapped resource for researchers in many disciplines from medicine to fashion, from linguistics to geography. Increasing quantities of archive television and film content are now becoming available online to the general public (eg Pathe, BBC Archive Collections) or the academic research community (eg. ITN news through the JISC's Newsfilm Online, BUFVC collections, BFI InView). Online catalogues now exist for those collections that can be accessed only by other means, such as archive visits. More will be released as the twin processes of digitisation and copyright negotiations proceed.However, this content is often prepared and delivered as 'collections'. You have to know where you are likely to find something before you look. There is no one place where you can search for content about a particular subject, locating material from cinema newsfilm, television or radio. This presents a considerable barrier to anyone contemplating using audiovisual content in their research.This project will build such a place, by producing a common scalable search interface for the nine databases developed and/or curated by BUFVC. These cover material from the earliest of cinema newsreels to next week's television. It would enable a researcher interested in the break-up of Yugoslavia to discover in one place and moment:- contemporary ITN reports- the BBC's 'first draft of history' documentary series 'The Death of Yugoslavia' from 1995- contextual footage of the history of Yugoslavia from newsreel footage of Tito's partisans- a 10 minute Visnews resume of the background history. It would allow a geographer to find footage of the same place or the same natural phenomena from the beginnings of cinema to the present; a biographer to discover the many radio and TV interviews given by their subject and any other programmes in which they participated.At all times, the nature and provenance of the material will be made clear: a newsreel from the 1930s has a very different 'feel' to TV news of the 1960s, as does 1960s news to that of today. Understanding the origin of the content is key to recovering its meanings and then to reusing it for contemporary purposes. The nature of the source collections of content is still vital in this process, as with the equally necessary process of finding content where it is not already available in an online digitised form. Where content is available, an embedded hyperlink will enable it to be previewed as part of the search and discovery process.The interface will enable researchers to select filters to exclude irrelevant material. It will have a strongly visual design. The design of the interface will be extensively tested with researchers from a wide range of disciplines as part of the project.The project will create a framework into which further information can and will be inserted when it comes available. Once in place, any relevant information (eg from BBC or overseas archives) can easily be integrated. BUFVC has a 60 year history in providing data on moving images to the academic sector, and is core funded by JISC as well as having over 90% of UK higher education institutions in its membership. BUFVC's continued curation and expansion of this data framework is thus assured.Two further features will ensure that this database and interface remain a living and growing entity. The software that underpins the work of integrating the existing nine databases in BUFVC's curation will be developed by BUFVC and will be considered for release to the open source community. Second, the Web 2.0 aspects of the interface will allow users to feed in their own information: hyperlinks to specific footage, more detailed metadata and free-text descriptions, contextual material, published academic research work etc.