A digital search tool for VRT’s film collection

Kathleen Bertrem, Marieke Lycke and Tom Vanderbiest
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Kathleen Bertrem: VRT, Belgium
Marieke Lycke: VRT, Belgium
Tom Vanderbiest: IRIS Information Management Solutions, Belgium

Journal of Digital Media Management, 2023, vol. 11, issue 4, 300-309

Abstract: The film collection at VRT — the public broadcaster of the Flemish community in Belgium — includes around 108,000 titles, dating from 1953 to the 1980s. This paper describes how VRT Archive has made this collection digitally accessible and searchable. The paper explains how optical character recognition and field recognition were employed in the digitisation of film index cards in order to create a fully searchable database, and includes a summary of the lessons learned. Based on these lessons, VRT Archive is now ready for future digitisation projects.

Keywords: historical film collection; digitisation; preservation; information retrieval; optical character recognition; OCR; field recognition; smart capture; multimedia asset management; electronic information management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M11 M15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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