Guidelines for AV content providers to make their content available to Europeana

This Technical Report is a product of the PrestoPRIME Project (D6.2.2.), the major project on digital preservation in the audiovisual sector in Europe.

This Technical Report is entitled “Guidelines for AV content providers to make their contents available to Europeana and is a public deliverable of the PrestoPRIME project. The project is developing a Competence Centre the goal of which is to act as an information hub for practitioners, archivists and technology providers in the AV domain with regards to digital preservation, digitisation and online accessibility to AV content. The present document has the following goals:

• to describe the Europeana guidelines for submitting audiovisual content available
• to present the Europeana partner strategy based on collaboration with existing European content aggregators. New content providers wishing to submit data to Europeana are likely to first join one of the partner aggregators
• to present the major European cultural heritage aggregators in the audiovisual sector which are most relevant for potential new content providers, as well as their policies with regards tonew partners and contents
• to raise awareness of the various requirements of the various aggregators with which a new content provider may need to comply, and also the fact that content is likely to be processed twice: once as part of the aggregator’s platform and once during the Europeana harvesting.