- UAB Microcredential
- Code: 5212/1
- 1st edition
- Modality: Online
- Credits: 6 ECTS
- Start date: 26/01/2026
- Finish date: 31/03/2026
- Places: 25
- Orientation: Professional
- Price: 909 €
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Special price 273 €
Group of application: Amount with the NextGenerationUE Fund discount applied
- Teaching language: Spanish
- Location: Synchronous online teaching on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
The course provides knowledge on the analysis and description of audiovisual documents, including film materials, video, and sound documents, in various contexts such as film archives, television and radio archives, and other types of repositories that manage audiovisual documentation. Participants will learn methodologies for information retrieval, the use of cataloguing rules and metadata standards, document classification, and evaluation and selection. They will also become familiar with the technological environment that allows for the automation of many processes through artificial intelligence tools.
Objectives:
Understand cataloguing and indexing standards for audiovisual documents.
Learn about the technologies used to automate analysis and description processes through AI.
Understand the conceptual models that structure audiovisual information.
Learn methodologies for analysing and segmenting audiovisual documents.
Identify different types of metadata and the standards associated with their management.
Apply classification and selection criteria for audiovisual collections.
Curriculum:
The Description of Audiovisual Documents
Introduction to archival description and international cataloguing standards.
Description elements: definitions and characteristics.
Image analysis: relationship between image and sound, framing, shots, camera angles.
Hierarchical and conceptual relationship models: FRBR, RDF.
Indexing: Documentary Languages and Vocabularies
Methodology for indexing audiovisual documents.
Use of thesauri, subject heading lists, and keywords.
Introduction to SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) vocabularies.
Metadata: Concept, Application, and Management
Definition and classification of metadata.
Markup languages and metadata standards: Dublin Core, PBCore, EBU Core, IPTC Video.
Classification, Evaluation, and Selection of Audiovisual Collections
Introduction to archival classification and case studies.
Criteria for evaluating and selecting audiovisual documents.
Application of Technology in Document Processing
Artificial Intelligence technologies applied to audiovisual documentation.
Coexistence of automation and manual work in workflows.
The new role of the audiovisual documentalist in an automated environment.
Registration:
If you are interested in deepening your understanding of audiovisual document analysis and description, don't hesitate to enrol. This course is ideal both for sector professionals and for those wishing to enter the field. Dont miss the opportunity to train in a fundamental area for preserving audiovisual and sound documentary heritage.
It is recommended to have specific training in the areas of Audiovisual Cataloguing and Description, Indexing and Information Retrieval, Metadata Management in Audiovisual Contexts, or Classification, Selection and Evaluation of Audiovisual Materials.
Metadata and its management
Documentary languages, cataloguing rules, ontologies, and vocabularies
Evaluation and selection
Application of technology to document processing
- Managers or professionals in centres, organisations or archives that preserve and manage audiovisual and sound documentation.
- Staff involved in the processing and management of audiovisual documents in centres such as television and radio archives, audiovisual production companies, media libraries, sound libraries, film archives, or similar institutions.
- Professionals seeking to retrain in order to pursue new career opportunities in the audiovisual preservation and processing sector, with a focus on document management and dissemination.
Objectives:
Understand cataloguing and indexing standards for audiovisual documents.
Learn about the technologies used to automate analysis and description processes through AI.
Understand the conceptual models that structure audiovisual information.
Learn methodologies for analysing and segmenting audiovisual documents.
Identify different types of metadata and the standards associated with their management.
Apply classification and selection criteria for audiovisual collections.
Curriculum:
The Description of Audiovisual Documents
Introduction to archival description and international cataloguing standards.
Description elements: definitions and characteristics.
Image analysis: relationship between image and sound, framing, shots, camera angles.
Hierarchical and conceptual relationship models: FRBR, RDF.
Indexing: Documentary Languages and Vocabularies
Methodology for indexing audiovisual documents.
Use of thesauri, subject heading lists, and keywords.
Introduction to SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) vocabularies.
Metadata: Concept, Application, and Management
Definition and classification of metadata.
Markup languages and metadata standards: Dublin Core, PBCore, EBU Core, IPTC Video.
Classification, Evaluation, and Selection of Audiovisual Collections
Introduction to archival classification and case studies.
Criteria for evaluating and selecting audiovisual documents.
Application of Technology in Document Processing
Artificial Intelligence technologies applied to audiovisual documentation.
Coexistence of automation and manual work in workflows.
The new role of the audiovisual documentalist in an automated environment.
Registration:
If you are interested in deepening your understanding of audiovisual document analysis and description, don't hesitate to enrol. This course is ideal both for sector professionals and for those wishing to enter the field. Dont miss the opportunity to train in a fundamental area for preserving audiovisual and sound documentary heritage.
It is recommended to have specific training in the areas of Audiovisual Cataloguing and Description, Indexing and Information Retrieval, Metadata Management in Audiovisual Contexts, or Classification, Selection and Evaluation of Audiovisual Materials.
Contents
Analysis and description of moving images and soundMetadata and its management
Documentary languages, cataloguing rules, ontologies, and vocabularies
Evaluation and selection
Application of technology to document processing
Career opportunities
People who wish to specialise in or are interested in these types of documents and who work or want to work as:- Managers or professionals in centres, organisations or archives that preserve and manage audiovisual and sound documentation.
- Staff involved in the processing and management of audiovisual documents in centres such as television and radio archives, audiovisual production companies, media libraries, sound libraries, film archives, or similar institutions.
- Professionals seeking to retrain in order to pursue new career opportunities in the audiovisual preservation and processing sector, with a focus on document management and dissemination.
Scholarships and financial aid
Within the framework of the plan for the development of university microcredentials, tuition scholarships are offered.
Funded by the "Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan - Funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU."
See the application information on the FUAB Microcredentials scholarships and grants and application information page.
Coordinating centres
FUAB Formació. Archivística y Gestión de Documentos
Collaborating centres
Arxivers sense Fronteres Espanya (AsF Espanya)
Contact
Ariadna Morente Pagès
Phone: 935929710