Building a linked data based content discovery service for the RTÉ Archives
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The RTÉ Archives holds over 500,000 photographs, 150,000 hours of audio, and 210,000 hours of moving images documenting Irish broadcasting history from the 1920s to present. As demand and platforms for accessing this content grow, new tools are needed to improve discovery of content across databases and allow for more automated search and curation. RTÉ Archives is collaborating with research partners to investigate how semantic web and linked data technologies can help meet these needs by suggesting new pathways of exploration and tracking content use throughout its lifecycle.
Building a linked data based content discovery service for the RTÉ Archives
- 1. Opening up the RTÉ Archives Through Industry and Research led collaboration Insight & Background to Project Bríd Dooley Head of Archives
- 2. RTÉ ARCHIVES • • • • • 1920s 1940s 1960s 1980s 2000s RTÉ Archives is Ireland’s oldest and largest audiovisual archive Expanded and changed as the Collecting begins 1926 Gramophone Library 1934 national broadcaster has Stills Library 1967 grown. Film Library 1968 Employs circa 40 staff Sound Archive 1968 supporting over 50,000 TV News Library 1990 research queries p.a Written Archives 1991 Supplies up to 10% of original TV Sports Library 1995 Radio & TV airtime Film Archive 1996 TV and Radio Archive Projects 2001 Now a major part of RTÉ digital RTÉ digital 2012 output across all platforms – and growing
- 3. Our Holdings today – 4 Archival Pillars 1. MOVING IMAGE 210,000 hours 2. AUDIO 150,000 hours 3. PHOTOGRAPHIC 500,000 + selected images 4. DOCUMENTS – 10.000 + new accession -still counting! Growing at 7% p.@, holdings double every 15 years
- 4. Ambition – to open and develop RTÉ Archives as major online digital resource for multiple audiences and user communities . To date we have produced over 29 curated exhibitions comprising hundreds of moving image & audio segments, documents & images - fully searchable online
- 5. We are already big users of online digital media Through our website www.rte.ie/archives Across daily RTÉ output On Home page www.rte.ie - On this Day Using Social Media In special projects .. As well as a range of partnerships with national cultural heritage institutions and media organisations.
- 6. And we know that demand grows as the archive is opened up Traffic to rte.ie/archives full year
- 7. Common challenges to opening up Archives Large legacy collections on dozens of different playback formats – much of it on discreet carriers. Four separate library databases /collections with business specific metadata standards for search and query Broadcast Standard files and formats mixed with Archival requirements in constant state of change Digital production –archive workflows not yet end –to end Interrupted workflows as new systems introduced Finding those gems! Demands for quick access, search discovery and re-use of our content greater than ever. Economic constraints of budget & personnel
- 8. New tools are needed to semi-automate discovery and Curation across our internal databases for better access To achieve this we want to work directly with the research community to realise opportunities in linked-data and semantic web technologies inside the broadcast archive specific to our needs
- 9. In Summary – we need to move from Access to Discovery - why? Because audience & user demands are changing as rapidly as consumer technologies - and we must keep pace Budgets and staffing shrinking while contend demand and new platforms grow New tools are needed to aid more automated search and discovery of content both to meet and anticipate expectations & promote the value and use of archives The search experience we want must not just return accurate results but suggest new pathways of investigation & help to track and document data use through content lifecycle. RTÉ Archives is now collaborating with two leading research partners in Ireland to investigate how these tools can be developed within RTÉ
- 10. Thank you . Bríd Dooley Head of RTÉ Archives www.rte.ie/archives @RTEArchives
Editor's Notes
- #7: 27/11/2013