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The
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision is workpackage leader
of WP2 on archival research and content preparation.
The main task of the workpackage is to gather all important and
top-quality content at least from the first year of TV-broadcasting
from every partner of the consortium.
Three tasks make up this workpackage:
- Basic Archival Research on First TV-Items: The aim of this
task is to re-construct early television from different sources
like program-schedules, recordings, stills, manuscripts, oral
history etc. both of corporate and private origin;
- Content Alignment: Aligning results from Task 2.1 between
all project partners to discuss and decide on the core content
for the further distribution channels. This implies making a
choice about the selection of content formats as well as the
number and spreading of items;
- Networking with Scientific Research: Results from ongoing
research in the area of human sciences, especially media studies,
will be integrated.
Also, Sound and vision is responsible to coordinate the following workpackages:
D1.2.2 Project Website
D2.1.1 Report on basic archival research
D2.3.2 Final Report on networking activities
D4.1.1 Definition of strategy for multilingual
access
D4.1.2 Final Report on Metadata Creation
Directory Information
Media Park, Sumatralaan 45
Postbus 1060
1200 BB Hilversum
http://www.beeldengeluid.nl
0031-356774720
Organisation Type
Non-profit institute
Organisation Role
working
archive of Dutch broadcasters, research media studies,
broadcast history, audiovisual archiving-, production,
footage licensing
Description of organisation
The
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (formerly called
the Netherlands Audiovisual Archive) is a unique organisation
with an important task to fulfil. Material from the earliest
days of radio and cinema up to yesterday's news are stored
and accessed be a diverse user group . The major collection
consists of content from the Dutch public broadcasters,
which grows every day. Next to programmes that were broadcast,
also advertisements, amateur film, photo's, a selection
of commercial broadcasts, the National Music Library,
and a documentation centre are also part of the holdings.
Estimations of the size of the archive range from 700.000
to almost 800.000 hours of audiovisual material. Sound
and Vision is a private foundation and has almost 200
employees and a large number of volunteers. Based in Hilversum,
the heart of the Dutch media landscape, it provides a
high level of service to the Dutch public and commercial
broadcasters. The programmes they produced by the public
broadcasters are annotated and made accessible for reuse
in new programmes. Together with them, we think about
how to shape the future of producing, transmitting and
archiving audiovisual material in the digital age. Next
to these activities, Sound and Vision is also a cultural
institute, making the Netherlands audiovisual heritage
accessible to a wide audience. Therefore, our group also
includes scholars doing research, people visiting the
museum and documentary makers exploring the archive. All
have their own unique needs that are addressed to Sound
and Vision. The past few years the Dutch government has
earmarked funds that made it possible for us to work on
projects making the material from our archives accessible
online. For instance, Sound and Vision is now streaming
material into classrooms in secondary education and universities.
Apart from this, Sound and Vision is very active in the
international arena, working on EC funded projects and
being an active member of important international bodies,
such as the EBU, FIAT, DELOS and DIGICULT and Internet2.
Here Sound and Vision collaborates in developing metadata
standards, creating digital libraries that transcend language
barriers, handle search and retrieval issues and solutions
for long term preservation and so on. In 2003 work stated
on the spectacular new office, which will be opened in
2005.
Hours and Days of service
Weekdays 9 :00 • 17 :00
Audience served
Programme makers from public and commercial broadcasters, researchers in media studies or information management, students, advertisement companies, the general public.
Conditions for use
Varies,
please contact klantenservice@beeldengeluid.nl
Collection size
Television: 30.000 hours on film, and 40.000 hours on video tape.
Collection and Genre strength
Broadcast history, Documentary films, Sports, Current affairs, Music, Culture, Amateur footage, Radio broadcasts, Politics, Religion, Science.
Formats collected
Betacam SP
1" Tape
VHS
Magnetic Film
16mm Reverse Master
D5
Digital Betacam
UMATIC
Betacam
Cataloging activities
Immix System
Present research activities in the field of researching
and building a DL: at the moment, these are centred around
a project where we set up a Digital Asset Management System
for our collection of film and video material. The system
will hold a 10.000 hours of material in the initial stages.
The iMMix system is directed at the creation of an infrastructure
for the digital storage and distribution of metadata and
essence. It has the following objectives:
the creation of a digital archive system, consisting
of a metadata database, a content management system, a
storage facility, an ingestion client, and various front
ends for the purposes of on-line publication;
storage capacity for 10,000 hours of material encoded
from the legacy archives in low resolution quality channel
recording of those programmes from the stations Nederland
1, 2 and 3 that fall within the archiving policy, in browsing
quality (MPEG 1, or a format to be determined later, 3500
hours per year) and provided with key frames;
channel recording of those programmes from the stations
Radio 1 to 5 that fall within the archiving policy, in
archive / production quality (MPEG 1 layer II, or a format
to be determined later, 5500 hours per year);
the possibility of offering conversion of the MPEG 1
assets to the Internet formats wanted by customers. (Native
encoding for Internet formats falls outside the scope
of the project.);
extension of the on-line services to the broadcast professional
(delivery of content, billing and account, EDLs);
small-scale encoding of the legacy archives at the request
of customers, and for small projects. - Digital Platform
Number of institutes and companies involved in this project:
4 primary partners, 20 associated partners The Dutch Digital
Platform, and the bilateral relations with the 28 public
broadcasters, form the context within which Sound and
Vision seeks to achieve its ambitions. The Digital Platform
must result in a digital architecture within and between
the public broadcasting companies, NOS, NOB and Sound
and Vision. In accordance with the initiative "Requirements
for the Digital Platform", the Digital Platform concerns
itself with three targets: the digitising of the production,
transmission, and archiving process; the introduction
of a Media Asset Management system; and the creation of
the infrastructure required for new media. Ending date:
2006 (could be prolonged)
Catalog & Database contact information
Joomen@beeldengeluid.nl
Programming, collections support activities
5th
framework & Media plus programme:
VICAR (Video Indexing Classification Annotation Retrieval
1998-2000)
http://iis.joanneum.ac.at/vicar/
PRESTO (preservation technology in European broadcast
archives 2001-2002) http://iis.joanneum.ac.at/presto
AMICITIA (Asset management Integration of Cultural heritage
In The Interchange between Archives 2001-2002)
http://www.amicitia-project.de
ECHO (European Chronicles Online 2000-2002) http://pc-erato2.iei.pi.cnr.it/echo/
The project BIRTH aims at building up a multimedial and
multilingual pool of archive material from the first broadcasting
days 50 years ago for online access by different user-groups.
Affiliations with international bodies
Member of the Media Management Commission. Involved in
the editing and compiling of FIAT-IFTA official documents
on specific topics such as archive cataloguing and workflow,
documentation, metadata standardisation, metadata modelling
and internet archiving. Responsible for dissemination
by way of contributions at audiovisual archive conferences
and seminars, and FIAT-IFTA workshops.
Member of the P-Meta Project group of the EBU. Since 1999
contributing to the definition of an exchange standard
to define B2B and S2S metadata. Representing the audiovisual
archives metadata viewpoint and requirements in this technically
based EBU-forum.
Member of the Expert Group of the DigiCULT project, an
IST Support Measure, to establish a regular technology
watch that monitors and analyses technological developments
relevant to the cultural and scientific heritage sector.
Associated relation of the DELOS Network of Excellence,
being a representative from and a link to the archive-community
of FIAT-IFTA. Involved in the organisation of joint FIAT-IFTA/DELOS
workshops on metadata modelling (2001) and audio preservation
(2003). Associated with the Association of Moving Image
Archivists, Open Archives forum and Internet
Public service contact
klantenservice@beeldengeluid.nl
homepage URL
http://www.beeldengeluid.nl
