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Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
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Saturday, August 21, 2004  

Collaboratory Raises the Curtain on Censored Movies
http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm/section/news/tpl/article/BrowsingType/Features/ID/69245

Many of Europe's historic films -- censored in Austria, Germany and Czechoslovakia during the 1920s and 1930s -- lie damaged, forgotten and largely unseen. Until recently, when a group of researchers mined three national archives and manually digitized 20,000 pages of documents about films, as well as related correspondence, press articles, photos and film clips. They then cataloged, indexed and annotated the pages and are using the results to demonstrate COLLATE, a new Web-based collaborative knowledge working system, dubbed a collaboratory (collaboration plus laboratory). The system allows researchers to work remotely using software tools such as databases, digital libraries and research results. The tool may for a limited time be freely downloaded or directly accessed at http://www.collate.de/. There, researchers may search historic and cultural sources by content, using existing tools and retrieval systems, some of which are open source. Visitors may, for example, download a version of the complete Austrian movie, "Café Electrik," prints of which no longer exist. Using the new system, researchers pieced together its story from related photos and subtitles. Its creators say COLLATE is the first collaboratory used in the humanities, but note it can be used in other domains, as well.

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