Searching documentary films on line: the ECHO Project

Wide access to large information collections is of great potential importance in many aspects of everyday life. However, limitations in information and communication technologies have, so far, prevented the average person from taking much advantage of existing resources. Historical documentaries, held by national audiovisual archives, constitute some of the most precious and less accessible cultural information. The ECHO project intends to contribute to the improvement of the accessibility to this precious information, by developing a Digitai library (DL) service tor historical films belonging to large national audiovisual archives.