Sound and Vision presents new version of Academia

June 20th 2008

On Tuesday, the 1st of July, Sound an Vision will present the updated version of Academia, the online image bank for higher education. The website is user-friendly and contains even more audiovisual content.



Academia (www.academia.nl) gives online access to thousands of hours of streaming content for higher education. At the moment the amount of content is up to 6000 hours, but the collection is literally growing every day. The content stems from the archives of the Dutch Institute of Sound and Vision and is reinforced daily with current programs, like the news, Andere Tijden and Nova/Den Haag Vandaag. And now the collection will also be enhanced with the photo collection of Sound and Vision, with music, historical radio material and films made by well-known Dutch cineasts.

The project Images for the Future allows thousands of hours of historical material to be digitized and made available for education, via Academia, amongst other things. The Academia material reaches the students and teachers through SURFmedia, the video platform of SURFnet.

Edwin van Huis, director of Sound and Vision, will present the new web environment to the audience during ‘Diverse 2008’, the international conference about video in education. The presentation will take place from 10.30 a.m. to 11.50 a.m. in the Auditorium of the Hogeschool INHOLLAND Haarlem. After the opening by Edwin van Huis, Tom Brink – manager of education at Sound and Vision – will give a presentation on the renewed web environment of Academia. Subsequently a number of education professionals will demonstrate how they put Academia to use.

For more information and registration for the presentation, see: www.academia.nl/miniconferentie
(participation of Diverse 2008 is not required for attendance of the mini-conference).