CineDocNet, TvDocNet: una comunidad virtual de usuarios de documentación audiovisual (cinematográfica y televisiva)

Media information management should be considered from all professional perspectives through virtual communities of users (VCU) made up of researchers, technical experts, critics, information and media professionals, students, etc. Although a new virtual community of information management has already been set up, in the opinion of the authors it is too broad to allow for sufficient attention to different areas of specialisation. The present article presents the case of an existing virtual community of users of audio-visual information, covering both cinematography and TV. This VCU is characterised by multimedia contents, interactivity, and the integration of distinctive work areas, such as a documentation service, web log, mail list,forum, users’ contributions, and periodic chats. Two streaming servers are being used to produce and broadcast multimedia content: one located at RedIRIS [the Spanish National Research Network] and the other at the Computer Centre of the Univ. Complutense de Madrid (UCM). The VCU has its origins in a broader framework, proposed by the Library and Information Science Department of the UCM, whose aim is to establish a Spanish and Iberoamerican multimedia information management network.