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The Paradox of Borders: Tracing the Clip of Laika the Soviet Dog in Three Digital Television Archives Cover

The Paradox of Borders: Tracing the Clip of Laika the Soviet Dog in Three Digital Television Archives

Open Access
|Dec 2023

Figures & Tables

Image 1

When searching for “Laika” in the Media Suite, her iconic fragment is the first result and is derived from the EVN collection.

source: https://mediasuite.clariah.nl/tool/resource-viewer?id=2101608040033446831&cid=daan-catalogue-tv&bodyClass=noHeader&singleResource=1

Image 2

The special collections within the Internet Archive all have a US focus.

source: https://archive.org/details/tv

Video 1

Laika being strapped in her capsule, ready to take off on her journey.

“Space 50th Anniversary of the Soviet Union’s Sputnik Launch. History of the Space Race between the USSR and the US.” Watch the full video here.

Image 3

Facets in the Media Suite.

source: https://mediasuite.clariah.nl/

Image 4

The curated collection about the events of 9/11 that can be found in the Internet Archive. The collection shows broadcasts from all over the world from 08:00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. (ET) on that day.

source: https://archive.org/details/911/day/20010911

Image 5

Data description in Latvian in the Internet Archive.

source: https://archive.org/details/FilmaBaieris

Image 6

EUscreen includes a data description as well as the title of the video in both the original language of the providing country, as well as its English translation.

source: https://euscreen.eu/item.html?id=EUS_C6486D12FC274F108F5DB5E81EA6AEC5

Image 7

When searching for Laika in the Internet Archive, we immediately see her in one of the still frames. The other results, like in the row below, are also easily identifiable as news broadcasts and talk shows due to their still frame.

source: https://archive.org/details/tv?q=Laika

Image 8

An example of how EUscreen deploys visualisation through still frames. Here we see how users can explore a wide variety of data through scanning and clicking on the still frames, without the need of searching for a specific topic.

source: https://euscreen.eu/

Image 9

The Media Suite has a very text-based interface, showing predominantly the data descriptions in the results page.

source: https://mediasuite.clariah.nl/

Image 10

The interactive map that can be found in EUscreen, providing an overview of all countries where archives have provided content.

source: https://euscreen.eu/about.html

Image 11

An example of the Linked data connected to the video, providing information on the people involved. It is thereafter possible to click through to Wikidata and the GTAA. Picture is public domain, see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wubbo_Ockels_2007.jpg?uselang=nl#Licentie.

source: https://mediasuite.clariah.nl/tool/resource-viewer?id=2101608060041093131&cid=daan-catalogue-tv&st=%22Waar%20is%20de%20hemel%20voor%22

Image 12

One way in which recommended videos are offered to the viewer in the Internet Archive. Here, the videos are presented at the end of single clips.

source: https://archive.org/details/51264TheRaceToSpace

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18146/view.303 | Journal eISSN: 2213-0969
Language: English
Page range: 11 - 28
Published on: Dec 29, 2023
Published by: Sound & Vision
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2023 Mary-Joy van der Deure, Jasmijn van Gorp, Alec Badenoch, published by Sound & Vision
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