Representatives from archives and broadcasters across Europe attended EUscreen workshops in London, Warsaw and Barcelona during May and June. The British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC), NInA (The National Audiovisual Institute of Poland) and Televisio de Catalunya (TVC3),  hosted a series of busy and productive meetings.

The primary objective of the EUscreen project is to add at least one million aggregated metadata records of audiovisual items to Europeana, as well as adding an enriched core collection of 20,000 moving image items to the 40,000 plus items already on the EUscreen portal.

During the workshops Marco Rendina of Cinecittà Luce spoke about metadata schema, Dr Rob Turnock of Royal Holloway, University of London, presented an overview of content selection policy, and Eve-Marie Oesterlen and Andrew Ormsby, of the BUFVC, outlined a proposed workflow plan for the aggregated content and the enriched core collection. Vassilis Tsouvaras (in London) and Arne Stabenau (in Warsaw and Barcelona), from The National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), gave technical demonstrations, showing content providers how to import datasets and map their metadata schemas in preparation for publication to Europeana and the EUscreen portal.

A series of one to one sessions on the final day of each workshop, gave content providers the opportunity to discuss metadata, content selection, IPR issues, technical matters and workflow with the team. The results of the workshops will now feed into a meeting hosted by NTUA in Mykonos in September, when the team will present the finalised metadata schema and content selection policy as well as the delivery workflow, along with guidelines for support and monitoring for the rest of the project.