ZDF opens its media archive to science

Knowledge for all: A new project is to prepare collection data from ZDF for science and research in a clear and transparent manner.

As part of the “e-Research Technologies” program funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), a discovery interface is to be established over the next two years, with the help of which the scientific community can research data from ZDF television. Online collection in the future. ZDF Media Archive works in conjunction with Leipzig University Library with.

The Leipzig University Library is developing this new research option. Because it has a lot of potential in the field of cross-media search engines. It also runs a specialist information service for media, communication and film studies. “adlr.link”, where interested parties are currently researching approximately three million data records for literature, AV media and online resources. However, the Leipzig University Library is not required to be fully introduced to the ZDF media archive, as the metadata is mainly used as a database. These programs come from magazines and EPGs (Electronic Program Guides) or have already been published in teletext. In addition, these data complement or substantiate the existing ZDF archive database.

“In the media age, radio archives have become a form of media memory without which contemporary history can no longer be told.” This emphasis was given by ZDF Director Dr. Thomas Belut. “ZDF is aware of this responsibility and has therefore for many years been committed to giving science and research, but also the public, access to its archive materials within the framework of legal possibilities”.