Digital Collections at Work. Radio and Television Collections Online – A Case Study from Denmark

Tonny Skovgård Jensen [email protected]

Digital collections at work. Radio and television collections

online - a case study from Denmark

Tonny Skovgård Jensen Director, National Library Division

State and University Library Denmark


The State and University Library • 3 main functions:

– University libary – National servicies for public libraries – National library

• National Library #2 – The Royal Library in Copenhagen is the

oldest and biggest • We specialize in media:

– Radio – TV – Recorded music – Historical audiorecordings – DVD / VHS – The Danish part of the web (In

cooperation with the Royal Library) – Newspapers


Two cases • MEDIESTREAM

• Run by the library • Focus on access – search

and play • Radio and tv • Users pay for using it

• LARM

• A university-research-driven project, including the library, national broadcaster, several universities

• Focus on research tools as well as access

• Only radio • Funded by national research

foundation as a research infrastructure project


The plan • Two cases – two ways of providing access to our digital collections • Background - short

– The collection we have – Technical platform – Copyright situation in Denmark

• Each of the two projects – Governance – Funding – Description of the online platform – Dissemination – Learnings

• Summing up - experinces – happy end? • Questions?


The collection


Digital content • TV

– 850.000 broadcasts • Radio

– 850.000 broadcasts • We have been

collecting digitally since 2005

• 300.000 radio programmes digitized by DR

• 1.450 TB + 350 TB/year


Technical platform


Technical platform

DOMS Metadata Bit repository

Repository

API

LARM Mediestream


Copyright - Denmark


Copyright - Denmark • All content is protected by copyright • Legal deposit – we can give everyone access AT the library • Any other use is not permitted • Collective licensing is possible • Copydan: Represents many kinds of rightsholders

– Authorized by Ministry of Culture – Can enter into agreements

including both represented and not represented rightsholders

• Makes it possible to aquire the rights for specific purposes – but it costs!

• Academic purposes – costs less. Entertainment costs a lot.


Mediestream


Mediestream governance

Content producer

• Producing • Broadcasting

Library

• Collecting content

• Metadata • Search and

discovery tools

University

• Research • Knowledge • Output


Mediestream portal 1


Mediestream portal 2


How to authorize access? • WAYF – Where Are You From:

National single sign on service. • In the backend administration

module we register which institutions/universities have bought access to the service

• End users log in via WAYF using their university log in

• It is important that user registration and log in procedures are quick and smooth.


Mediestream - Funding

• Users – the universities – pay for the copyright licenses

• The library pays for development of portal and administration of our regular budget

• App 120.000 euro per year for app. 90.000 students (years) + researchers

• Important to introduce user payment as a business model for digital servicies


Mediestream - dissemination • We sell access to universities,

represented by the research library • personal contacting: phone, visit,

e-mail • Each library help spreading the

information at their own university • We also promote the service

directly to end users by local presentations, newsletter, Facebook, Twitter etc.

• Success is not selling the service but users actually using it.


Mediestream - Learnings

• Heavy duty technical challenge • Copyright negotiations are tough • Our collection was not as well tuned as we

thought • Hard to break out of the usual business model

– library services are for free • Huge interest and need among users • A lot of fun


The LARM project


LARM governance

Content producer


Library



discovery tools

University



LARM funding

Research funding

project funding Rights holders

Content producer


Library



discovery tools

University



Technical platform

DOMS Metadata Bit repository

Repository

API

LARM Mediestream

Chaos / Metadata / Data

Other sources

Production of data


Larm portal 1


Larm portal 2


Larm portal 3


Larm dissemination

• Dissemination, yes – but not the primary concern

• A lab for the participating researchers, ph.d. students, etc.

• Not focused on getting many users – you don’t get many users

• Manual creation of user-pw – makes it harder to get new users


LARM - Learnings • Extremely valuable to work closely with the researchers • Researchers have very specific and very much varying needs. Makes it

hard to build a platform that supports many. • Not so many users of the platform, only a limited number of annotations –

but a lot of research. • A large number of young researchers have entered the field. A lot of

cooperation. • Researchers have been

trained in thinking about and working with digital archives and digital humanities

• Several new projects have followed


Before …


After … • Before:

– 3- 4.000 DVD’s produced per year • Larm 2013:

– 800 users with log in – 11.500 visits on the website 2013 – 1328 records with user generated metadata

• Mediestream 2013 - 2014 – 8000 log ins every month – 110.000+ streams of content – 2.279 streams on site – 25.000 different programmes first half year – 93% of the used content is TV – 94% of users are students


Important points

• Important to work closely with the users • Do you want to be able to integrate content from

others as well? • Will you support dataproduction by users, and

take the responsibility it implies? • Will you support special needs or keep it on a

general level? • Can you make smooth user registration and log in

procedures? • Copyright …


Questions?

• [email protected] • ???

mailto:[email protected]


Links

• www.statsbiblioteket.dk/mediestream • http://larm.blogs.ku.dk/ • http://larm.blogs.ku.dk/larmpublications/ • http://larm.fm/

http://www.statsbiblioteket.dk/mediestream

http://larm.blogs.ku.dk/

http://larm.blogs.ku.dk/larmpublications/

http://larm.fm/


Credits

• Drawings: Jørgen Stamp, from www.digitalbevaring.dk

• Photos from the library: Thomas Søndergaard


1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011

Pligtafleveringslov - Radio, tv, internet 1/7/2005

Pligtafleveringslov - AV materialer 1/1/1998

Statens Mediesamling 1/7/1987

Mediestream

Larm

Indsamling digitalt

Indsamling bånd

History

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