Filmarchives online
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filmarchives online is a web gateway providing easy access to moving image collections from various European film archives. It allows the search throughout a growing number of individual archival databases. Since February 2007, around 4.000 film works – mainly non-fiction material – are searchable in four different languages – English, German, Italian, Czech. The database is constantly growing.
Since the European film heritage is dispersed across Europe and locating moving images often is a complex, time consuming, and costly process, filmarchives online aims at simplifying the access and distribution of archival films in Europe. The portal addresses user groups ranging from the professional media and film production domain to the area of scientific research. On the filmarchives online website moving images can be searched by content, filmographic data and physical characteristics. Search results provide available information about existence and location of the materials. In addition to the search function, filmarchives online provides contact information to facilitate the access to the moving image items and, if available, links to digital content available for online viewing.
filmarchives online is the result of the MIDAS project (Moving Image Database for Access and Re-use of European Film Collections). MIDAS has been initiated in January 2006 as a pilot project in the MEDIA Plus programme of the European Commission. It is carried out by the coordinator German Film Institute (DIF, Frankfurt/Main) together with institutions dedicated to collecting and preserving the European film heritage. At present the consortium is comprised of five institutions – the British Film Institute (BFI, London), Národní Filmový Archiv (NFA, Prague) and the DEFA Foundation (Berlin). Nine to eleven further partners (representing nine different countries with eight languages) will make parts of their collections accessible via filmarchives online in the course of 2007.
[edit] External links
- filmarchives-online.eu - Web Gateway
- MIDAS Project (Moving Image Database for Access and Re-use of European Film Collections) - Project Information
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