CADEAH

Presentation

During the past decade, a massive body of audiovisual heritage has become digitally accessible on websites of archives, through initiatives such as Europeana.eu and EUscreen.eu, and on platforms such as YouTube and Vimeo.

The project is the first to research the online circulation and appropriation of audiovisual heritage using an integrated and interdisciplinary approach. It combines states of the art tracing and tracking technologies, critical cultural analysis and ethnographic fieldwork to answer the questions:

- How do strategies of curation shape the appropriation of digitized heritage?

- What new perspectives on European history and identity do digital curations and appropriations of audiovisual heritage create?

- How can audiovisual archives better foster the re-use of Europe's audiovisual heritage?

The project's case studies highlight European History from the Cold War to the Fall of the Berlin Wall and Migration in Europe - both urgent topics within debates about Europe's past, identity and future.

The project brings together interdisciplinary expertise in the curation of digital audiovisual heritage (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), contemporary European history (Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Republic), and Digital Humanities (Umea University, Sweden). It collaborates with leading stakeholders in the field, as Europeana.eu - and its main audiovisual aggregator EUscreen.eu - as well as the attached 35 audiovisual archives across Europe.

To reach out to users of audiovisual heritage, the project will also co-operate with the European Association of History Educators and Historiana.eu.