Images for the Future
During the next seven years, the Images for the Future project will secure a core collection of Dutch audiovisual heritage for future use through digitization. In total, 137.200 hours of video, 22.510 hours of film, 123.900 hours of audio, and 2.9 million photos from these archives will be restored, conserved, digitized, and opened for access via various services.The digitized material will become accessible for education, the creative industry and the general audience. The focus in the coming year is directed towards developing services for educational purposes and stimulating users to become involved.
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Economies of the Commons Conference
A two-day international public working conference on the economies, sustainability, and opportunities for creative reuse of these public audiovisual resources and archives.
The conference brought together a highly international group of specialists, including Peter Kaufman (Intelligent Television), Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Archives), Roei Amit (INA), Kenneth Goldsmith (UbuWeb) and many others.
Live reports on Images for the Future Research Blog
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News
- New tender of Sound and Vision
second invitation to tender - Invitation to tender digitizing Filmmuseum
Tenders can be delivered until 16 May 2008, 1400 hours - Knowledgeland investigates VoD-market
Quickscan opportunities AV-market - Libraries develop applications for disclosure of national and local material
Images for the Future-content will be distributed and tested. - First European tender of Sound and Vision
Technicolor digitizes 50.000 hours of television. - Sound and Vision digitizes Audio Collection by itself
and therefore has set up its very own 'encoding street'
