ECHO - European Chronicles on-line.

The ECHO project aims at developing a Digitai Library (DL) service for historical films belonging to large national audiovisual archives. Actually being able to see and hear an account of a historical event, filmed in the originai context, is very different from reading about it. The ECHO services will allow a user to search and access these documentary film collections. Users will be able, for example, to see an event which is documented in the country of origin and how the same event has been documented in other countries, or to investigate how different countries have documented a particular historical period of their life, etc. One effect of the emerging digitai library environment, is that it frees users and collections from geographic constraints. This that we have to work across languages, cultures, international standards, etc.