Dear DH community, We are excited to invite you to join the data challenge “Let’s Make a Cinephile Search Tool!”, organized by the Data Competence Center HERMES! Are you passionate about film, media, and data innovation? We invite you to take part in the data challenge “Let’s Make a Cinephile Search Tool!”— a unique opportunity to explore the intersection of AI, cultural heritage, and audiovisual archives. In this second edition of our data challenge, you'll work with 40 hours of real-world moving image data published by leading German and Dutch institutions. Your mission? Develop a discovery tool that enables multimodal search across 40 hours of public domain video content — not just using metadata, but also analyzing the visual and audio features of the footage. Your tool might detect shot types, identify objects and actions, or even find scenes that visually resemble an input image. You can integrate all of your developed features into a chatbot capable of handling complex prompts to perform multimodal searches across the dataset and return relevant results. This is your chance to create something impactful for scholars, researchers, and film enthusiasts — and push the boundaries of digital cultural access. Don’t worry if you don’t have a team yet! At the kickoff, we’ll help match participants from different disciplines. The attending teams or single individuals should ideally have expertise in both data science and film/media studies. Kickoff: 23 May 2025, 4:00 PM (CET) Registration Deadline: 31 May 2025, 11:59 PM Ready to take part? Find full challenge details, including the zoom link for the kickoff, here: *https://hermes-hub.de/forschen/datachallenges/challenges/challenge-2025.html... <https://hermes-hub.de/forschen/datachallenges/challenges/challenge-2025.html>. Let’s make the multimodal search of audiovisual history possible together!