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Joint European Filmography Contents of the database |
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This database is a compilation of filmographic records submitted by partners of the former Projecto Lumière (1992-1995). All database records available in 2001 have been converted towards a common format, thereby preserving the original information as faithfully as possible. The following is a breakdown of film records by country: |
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Editing Changes to the original data were strictly limited to formal and syntactic features. Country codes have been standardized to ISO 3166, language codes to ISO 639-2, and date formats to ISO 3901. Syntactic editing has been applied to sort marks and separators used for personal and corporate names, and film titles. Some normalization within other data categories such as gauge, length, colour, and sound has also been applied. All textual data have been converted to the Unicode character set. This server uses the UTF-8 coding scheme for presentation of all textual elements from the database. Title categories The original specification for the Joint European Filmography (issued in 1992) distinguishes between four title categories:
In addition, some contributors have supplied distribution titles (DT) as a fifth category, sometimes also indicating to which country or region a particular distribution title applies. Others have used suffixes giving additional information such as more specific categories (e.g. title from censorship record), geographic scope (e.g. film festival), etc. In order to preserve this additional information, all titles were re-classified using the following matrix of categories and attributes:
Film records can have any number of titles from any category. Distribution titles and working titles could only be classified as such where this distinction was made in the original record. A sort title category is not being provided, since all title entries are automatically supplemented with an alternative representation that can be used for sorting and searching independent of language and alphabet. Attributes Country and Year are present in thoses cases where this information has been supplied. The Language attribute is currently unused. Its main purpose is to allow for an automatic selection of transliteration schemes, once data in non-latin alphabets become available. Linking multinational duplicates The original intention of the Joint European Filmography was to consolidate national records relating to the same film into a single, multinational entry. This work was beyond the scope of preparing the current database, since it would have required considerable assistance from film historians. However, a small sample (ca. 1000) of film records have been linked to entries from other national filmographies where the identity was obvious. These links appear as "See also" references at the end of a database record. |
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22 March 2002, Detlev Balzer |
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