Beyond Entertainment - EIDR Launches Program to Help ID the World's Great Film/TV Archives
UAM (Universities, Archives, Museums) Initiative Will Assist Non-Commercial Associations Seeking in Identifying, Searching, and Sharing Titles Globally
NEW YORK, Feb. 28, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR), the source of open, universal identifiers for digital distribution of movie and television assets, today launched a program that will aid international cultural institutions in better identifying their audiovisual collections and make it possible for them to share their archives in a standardized way.
EIDR (a non-profit run on a cost-recovery basis) is offering the service to universities, archives and museums (UAM's) at no-cost, in exchange for documentation on how EIDR is then subsequently used by these partners in their research and curation programs. (Details on how a organization can join can be found on the EIDR website at eidr.com/uam).
In addition to world renowned institutions such as the Library of Congress, the British Film Institute and The Media Institute at University College London, which are already members, EIDR will be inviting more than 100 cultural and academic organizations around the world that specialize in the curation of audiovisual works to participate in the program.
"Since our founding in 2010," said Raymond Drewry, chief architect of EIDR, "our remit has explicitly included works of cultural and historical importance, whether they are currently (or ever have been) commercially available or not. We have been very fortunate to work with film archives, universities, libraries, and museums to help them identify works in their own collections and share those identifiers with others."
Interest in seeing EIDR adopted globally by the archivist community has been growing. Stephen McConnachie, Head of Data and Digital Preservation at the British Film Institute (a active EIDR member organization) has called on the archivist community to establish a "federated search" function between global archives and collections, and has proposed that non-proprietary EIDR IDs are key to attaining this goal. "The degree of certainty EIDR registration provides about the uniqueness of our work records is a major benefit," says McConnachie. "[For BFI] EIDR's tools, resources and expertise have catalyzed it and facilitated it."
"The Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) provides a valuable mechanism for issuing, recording and resolving unique IDs for moving image content," said Pam Fisher, Executive Director - The Media Institute, at University College London. "The Media Institute (TMI) welcomes the opportunity to work with EIDR to support a variety of initiatives and industry sectors for whom the ability to use EIDR will be valuable."
Will Kreth, Executive Director of EIDR, said: "We're delighted to offer the UAM program to these institutions (such as universities, archives, museums and libraries) under the condition that the organization document their implementation of EIDR, and share that with the EIDR community."
"When we say "Beyond Entertainment," Kreth added " we mean that EIDR's goal is to become as ubiquitous to the film and television world (in both commercial and non-commercial works) as the ISBN book ID and GTIN product ID (e.g. - UPC bar code) standards are today in their respective areas. With more than two (2) million unique IDs, and more than four (4) million Alternate IDs (contributed by dozens of members of the EIDR participant community), EIDR's amazing commonwealth of structured and linked open data has already changed and improved the way archivists, academics, and business curators interact with both external partners and internal teams."
About EIDR
EIDR (Entertainment ID Registry) is a non-profit, DOI-standard, universal identifier system for film and television assets. From top level titles, edits and collections - to encodings, clips and related content, EIDR provides a suite of highly curated, unique, persistent identifiers for the entire range of audiovisual object types that are relevant in both entertainment commerce and non-commercial uses. For more information about EIDR, please visit http://www.eidr.org.
SOURCE Entertainment ID Registry
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