Metadata Standardisation for Cinematographic Works

The exchange and publication of data about Europe's audiovisual heritage has become the focus of several projects supported by the European Union. This website carries news and background information on several of these projects.

CEN.BT TC 372 (formerly: TF 179) is the working group preparing metadata specifications for the identification and description of cinematographic works. It has produced two European Standards. EN 15744:2009 and EN 15907:2010, and is currently preparing a series of seminars for promoting the adoption and use of these standards.

MIDAS is the project behind filmarchives-online.eu, a catalogue of film holdings in several European film archives, with a focus on non-fictional material.

More recently, the European Film Gateway project has decided to use EN 15907 as a part of their semantic interoperability strategy for filmographic records.

This website is hosted by the Deutsched Filminstitut / Deutsches Filmmuseum (DIF) in Frankfurt am Main and is maintained by members of CEN/BT TC 372 and the MIDAS team.

These pages contain announcements, documents, and comments from the project teams.