PrestoSpace
 Thematic
priority : IST (Information Society Technologies) Call
:
FP6-2002-IST-1
Type of instrument:
Integrated
Project
Project Name: PrestoSpace
Project Number: FP6-507336
Duration: 40 months
Co-ordinator: Daniel Teruggi
(Institut
national de l’audiovisuel)
The 20th Century has provided a new kind of heritage through audiovisual
technology. Key events were recorded, and audiovisual media became the new form
of cultural expression and an expansion of humankind memory. These historical,
cultural and commercial assets are much more fragile that conventional artwork
(paintings, paper documents, monuments …), and are now entirely at risk from
deterioration. The UNESCO estimate of the world audiovisual holdings is 200
million hours and about 50 million in Europe. All audio, video and film
recordings are endangered within the next 20 years. This is a main challenge for
local and national archives but also for universities, libraries, museums and
enterprise or personal collections.
Although large Broadcasters have already begun to digitise their huge
holdings, with very high costs and using complex technology, the necessity is
now to introduce a preservation factory approach with the objective of providing
an integrated semi-automated solution, to reduce the costs so that the
small-to-medium collections can also be saved through common standardised
services. The services will be tailored to the realities of the wide variety of
audiovisual collections: economic and social models, storage and software costs,
and human resources costs as well as the policies and practices applied by
stakeholders.
Access requirements involve: addressing to whole documents or excerpts with
the adequate metadata and rights clearance and rights management, quality
restoration where needed and effective delivery systems for commercial and
public access.
In order to enable any European archive owner, from small collections to the
largest, to manage an autonomous and realistic patrimonial policy, including
preservation and exploitation of digital assets, PrestoSpace will push the
limits of the current technology beyond the State of the Art, bringing together
industry, research institutes and stakeholders at European level to provide
products and services for bringing effective automated preservation and access
to Europe’s diverse audiovisual collections.
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