Some more information about EFG, one of the projects relating to Europeana – the European digital library, museum and archive:

“EFG – The European Film Gateway is a 3-years project which started on 1st September 2008. It will develop an online portal, providing direct access to about 790.000 digital objects including films, photos, posters, drawings, sound material and text documents.” AND: “The European Film Gateway will be linked to the Europeana portal (…) The participation of the EDL Foundation as a project partner will ensure the appropriate cooperation with Europeana, which the Foundation oversees.” – This is how EFG introduces itself on its website.

The Work Packages have titles such as:

User needs and service requirements

Technical interoperability and access

Content enrichment and semantic interoperability

Service implementation and operation, web platform

IPR management and administration

Legal and organisational governance, sustainability planning

Later this month all partners will meet to attend the kick-off meeting of the project. Speaking of which… The envisioned central access point to film archival content will be created with the help of at least 22 partners and 16 content partners. DRIVER (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research) will support the creation of the gateway technically. The content will be based both on catalogues as on film content.

Georg Eckes

The project is co-ordinated by Georg Eckes, project manager at the Deutsches Filminstitut.

This photo of Mister Eckes was taken last April at the international working conference ‘Economies of the Commons – Strategies for Sustainable Access and Creative Reuse of Images and Sounds Online’, The Netherlands (blog where I found this picture)

Further information:

http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/index.php

Or you can download Eckes’ EFG presentation which he held at an Econtent information day – NB: it is in German