The Memobase portal provides the public with access to a network of institutions that preserve audiovisual cultural assets.
Success Story
The Memobase portal provides the public with access to a network of institutions that preserve audiovisual cultural assets.
The use of photographs, films, sound and video documents in education, teaching and research is stimulated by the portal. Memobase allows multilingual searches in indexing data and access to sound and image holdings that are permanently preserved in Swiss institutions. The consistency and relevance of the content, the depth of indexing, the technical quality, and the consideration of legal provisions meet national and international standards.
Simplify access to audiovisual documents for education, teaching and research purposes
Integration with other Swiss and European information portals (in progress)
Access to high-quality, cross-domain and multilingual metadata as well as free or secured access to copies of original audiovisual documents from Swiss institutions
Culture online
Switzerland’s audiovisual cultural heritage becomes available online.
Interdisciplinary
Convenient research, viewing and listening.
Self Service Tool
For monitoring and importing data sources.
Produktdetails
The underlying software based on Fedora offers extensive possibilities for aggregation and transformation of different metadata formats. The content is made available centrally via a cross-media search engine with semantic features.
The technical solution is specially designed for harversting data from multiple sources and offers clear import and management mechanisms. Convit supports the Memoriav e.v. association in the operation and further development of the Memobase system.
