31 March 2008

March 31st 2008

1. Conference Economies of the Commons - April 11 & 12, De Balie, Amsterdam

Images for the Future, Sound and Vision, Knowledgeland and De Balie organize the international event 'Economies of the Commons' on April 11 & 12. Leading experts and specialists from audiovisual archives (BBC, INA), libraries, frontrunners in open access and the music industry (Last.fm and Fabchannel), cultural producers, p2p- and open content specialists will explore the boundaries and the future of archives, libraries and open content. The program consists of public keynote lectures, interdisciplinary workshops and film screenings.

Registration

Register now! Passepartouts (25 euro) are available at De Balie (click here). For questions and day tickets contact Eric Kluitenberg (erick@debalie.nl).

Friday April 11 / 10.00 - 22.30h

The conference starts with a keynote of Peter Kaufman (Intelligent Television) followed by a panel about the changing role of National Archives. What are the challenges large-scale digitization and online services have to offer? With Pelle Snickars (SLBA), Richard Paterson (British Film Institute), Tobias Golodnoff (Dansk Culturarv), and Roei Amit (INA). After the lunch we continue with the second session about Commons-based Peer Production. How do new developments of creative reuse hold out against market-based production? With Felix Stalder (Open Flows), Jamie King (Steal This Film), Jon Phillips (Creative Commons) en Sebastian Lütgert (oil21.org). The afternoon ends with a session about the European Digital Library. With Paul Doorenbosch (KB - National Library of The Netherlands), Jill Cousins (Director European Digital Library), Sonja de Leeuw (Utrecht University/ case: Video Active), Georg Eckes (Deutsches Filminstitut / case: European Film Gateway).

Friday evening: Sustainable Images for the Future / 20.30h

The Friday night is dedicated to Images for the Future and the Commons. Edwin van Huis (Director General of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision) will provide the introduction about the largest digitization project in the Netherlands, Images for the Future. Rick Prelinger will continue to focus on the future of archives demonstrated by the case of the Prelinger Archives, a collection of 48.000 films of which a central selection has been added to the Library of Congress. David Bolier (www.onthecommons.org) speaks on the subject of value creation in open networks and how to link the Commons with government and industry. We end the session with a panel discussion with the speakers and Emjay Rechsteiner of the Dutch Filmmuseum about the Commons and Dutch audiovisual archives.

Saturday April 12 / 11.00 - 18.00h

Uncommon Business Models – 11.00h
In this session we will take on the subject of open business models. Two experts from related media industries that are arguably ahead of the curve will kick off the workshop. Jan Velterop, CEO of Knewco and one of the leading experts on Open Access, will give us an insight in the deployment of open business models in scientific publishing. Over the past couple of years Open Access has been able to provide a valid and sustainable alternative in this 7 billion dollar industry. Jonas Woods, Head of Music at the pioneering music company Last.fm, will pick up from there. In his presentation he will highlight how his company has successfully generated income streams in an industry that has shown to be particularly vulnerable in the open environment of the Internet. These examples will pave the way for an interesting discussion with panelists Peter Kaufman (Intelligent Television), Roei Amit (INA), Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Archives) and Eerde Hovinga (NIBG-tbc).

In the afternoon we focus on Intangible Heritage Resources in the (Non-) Western World. With Joost Smiers (Prof. em. Political Science of the Arts), Shubha Chaudhuri (ARCE), Anthony McCann (University of Ulster) Wim van Zanten (ICTM). The last panel consists of Professional Cultural Producers. With Florian Schneider (Kein.tv), Kenneth Goldsmith (Ubuweb), Bauke Freiburg (Fabchannel / Culture Player), Chai Locher (NFTVM - tbc), Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Archives).

And on Thursday April 10….

Legal Seminar – Sound and Vision - Hilversum
On Thursday, April 10, Images for the Future will host the afternoon program of the Economies of the Commons Legal Seminar. The seminar is intended for legal experts, scholars and law students. Regarding the Images for the Future project the participants will work on the issue of orphan works and rights clearing. Venue for the seminar is the Sound and Vision building in Hilversum. We regret to say that it is no longer possible to register for the seminar. It is already fully booked.

Premiere 'Big Buck Bunny’ – Studio K - Amsterdam
Blender and Creative Commons Netherlands host on Thursday night the premiere of the animation movie 'Big Buck Bunny'. This film, made with the open source 3D animation software Blender, is entirely published with a Creative Commons license. See peach.blender.org for more information.

2. Short News

KL investigates VoD-market

Knowledgeland is mapping out the leading trends in video-on-demand. The results are presented in a quick scan. Read the full article to learn how VoD can contribute to the successful exploitation of audiovisual heritage.

Libraries develop applications for disclosure of national and local material

Four libraries are starting projects in the near future wherein national audiovisual sources from Images for the Future will be disclosed in combination with local material, with the intention of producing applications and business models for use within the entire sector. Read the full article

First European tender of Sound and Vision

On the 25th of January, Sound and Vision and Technicolor (formerly known as NOB) signed an agreement for the encoding of approximately 50.000 hours of historical television archive material. This is the first European tender of Sound and Vision concerning Images for the Future. This marks the beginning of a total of 280.000 hours of AV-Material that will be digitized within the next six years. Read more

3. Behind the scenes

A glimpse into the National Archive’s restoration studio

The National Archive is standing in line for a huge opportunity of conservation and digitization. At the beginning of June, the National Archive – in collaboration with Sound and Vision and Filmmuseum – will publish invitations to tender for the digitization of the European photo collections. This is expected to be completed around the beginning of 2009.
Liesbeth Keijser, project manager of conservation and digitization at the National Archive for Images for the Future, gives a guided tour through the professional restoration studio of the National Archive. In this studio restorers and apprentices restore the archive material with the greatest care. Read more about the battle against mould, ‘tunnels’, ink corrosion and acid syndrome…

4. Colofon

Images for the Future is a joint project by the Filmmuseum (FM), the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Sound and Vision), the Centrale Discotheek Rotterdam (CDR), the National Archive (NA), the Association of Public Libraries (VOB) and the Netherlands Knowledgeland Foundation (KL).

Editors
Marcel Oosterwijk (moo@kl.nl) and Geert Wissink (gw@kl.nl) edit the newsletter and the website.

Consortium partners
Check the website for more information on the partners and how to contact them.