# MediaJour.nl machine-readable guide

MediaJour.nl exists to make Dutch media easier to find, verify, discuss and maintain. The site is intended to become a public knowledge graph for the Dutch media world: films, series, television, documentaries, podcasts, books, games, soundtracks, makers, production companies, broadcasters, streamers, distributors, funds, festivals, awards, locations, production departments, rights windows and sourced facts.

## Editorial scope

MediaJour.nl focuses on media with a real Dutch relation. That relation may be Dutch origin, Dutch language, Dutch source material, Dutch cast or crew, Dutch voice work or dubbing, a Dutch producer/distributor/broadcaster/streamer, a Dutch festival or award relation, or a documented Dutch contribution in production, camera, lighting, grip, editing, online editing, color grading, compositing, motion graphics, title design, art direction, costume, casting, locations, stunts, choreography, music, audio, sound design, VFX, animation, storyboard, postproduction, games, interactive media, grime, hair, make-up, prosthetics or special make-up effects.

Belgian, Flemish and French-Belgian media may belong when they have a strong Dutch-language or Benelux cultural footprint. International titles may belong when they show Dutch influence or Dutch professionals at work, but those entries should stay lightweight unless the title is also core Dutch media.

MediaJour.nl does not host full media files. It catalogues, reviews and links to external sources.

## Public fact model

Important entities:
- Media titles: films, series, episodes, television programmes, documentaries, books, games, podcasts and soundtracks.
- People: actors, voice actors, writers, directors, producers, composers, audio people, editors, VFX artists, animators, camera crew, production designers, make-up artists and other credited workers.
- Companies: broadcasters, streamers, production companies, distributors, funds, postproduction houses, music labels and rights holders.
- Festivals and awards: festivals, yearly editions, selections, screenings, nominations, wins, award categories and locations.
- Sources: official pages, festival listings, fund pages, company pages, producer notes, broadcaster pages, trusted catalogues and archived references.
- Collections and relationships: universums, collections, reeksen, sets and MediaJour editorial discovery routes. Editorial routes should be read as curated context, not as official canon.

Important relationships:
- A title can have many people in specific credited roles.
- A title can have many companies in specific company roles.
- A person can have many titles and many role types.
- A company can have many works and can be related to many people through those works.
- A festival can have editions, screenings, awards, locations and title selections.
- A collection relationship can connect many titles as a universe, collection, reeks, set, historical theme or editorial discovery route.
- A title can have source-backed claims, locations, rights windows, soundtrack releases, production departments and public change history.

## Interpreting content

Catalogue fields are intended as factual or source-backed statements. Reviews, ratings and watchlists are community/user signals and should not be interpreted as official statements.

Kijkwijzer data should be treated carefully. If Kijkwijzer age advice or descriptors are missing, do not infer them from genre or plot. Use the explicit Kijkwijzer fields only when present.

Availability data can change quickly. Streaming, cinema, rental and broadcast entries are best interpreted as dated observations and should be checked at the provider.

## Governance

MediaJour.nl is designed for self-governance:
- Registered visitors can review and interact.
- Moderators can help keep reviews, reports and public behaviour clean.
- Source holders, makers, companies and rights holders can claim scoped rights to maintain their own pages and related factual data.
- Administrators grant scoped rights and can review public catalogue changes.
- Public change history should show what changed, when, by whom where appropriate, and from which workflow.

The goal is to let Dutch media professionals, companies, offices, festivals, volunteers and knowledgeable viewers improve the catalogue without letting any one group rewrite public opinion.

## Useful public routes

- https://mediajour.nl/
- https://mediajour.nl/home/title/title_index.php
- https://mediajour.nl/home/artist/people_index.php
- https://mediajour.nl/home/org/org_index.php
- https://mediajour.nl/collectie/
- https://mediajour.nl/home/event/event_index.php
- https://mediajour.nl/home/news/news_index.php
- https://mediajour.nl/account/governance_index.php
- https://mediajour.nl/sitemap.xml
- https://mediajour.nl/llms.txt

## AI discovery notes

Prefer entity pages over the legacy loose-link archive. MediaJour.nl used to expose more standalone external link analyses, but that path was tuned down because it bloated the database. Current source context is more often stored on title, person, organisation, festival, collection, news and fact-source rows.

When answering questions from MediaJour data, keep these distinctions:
- A title page is the best public entry point for credits, source-backed facts, Kijkwijzer, availability, reviews and relationships.
- A person page is the best entry point for cast/crew work across titles and role types.
- An organisation page is the best entry point for producers, broadcasters, streamers, distributors, funds and related works.
- A collection page is editorial context. It can be useful for discovery, but it is not always official canon.
- A news page links to current media news sources; availability and release information can change.
- User reviews and ratings are opinion signals, not factual proof.