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Newsreels versus Newspapers versus Metadata

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: This article offers a comparative take on the ways audiovisual versus verbal digital archives model our understanding of the past. We focus on content metadata schemas and their role in modeling histories and framing the uses of audiovisual databases. Our empirical corpus includes verbal and audiovisual objects from the five-year period just before the World War II (1935-1939) as presented in two digital databases – the Analytic Bibliography of Estonian Journalism and the Estonian Film Database. The article compares how the different metadata schemas for newspaper articles and newsreels model their objects. As a consequence, metadata schemas shape contemporary perceptions of historical realities in different ways.

Source: VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture

DOI: 10.18146/2213-0969.2018.jethc157

Authors: Indrek Ibrus, Maarja Ojamaa

Institution: Tallinn University

Language: English

Topic: Digital and Traditional Archives Management

Subfield: Conservation

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2961673279

FWCI: 14.75

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Cited by: 7

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