Europe’s cultural heritage: From digitisation to creative re-use

Lizzy Komen, Project Manager R&D,

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

CITEX 2014, Ankara, 7 November 2014

Europe’s cultural heritage:

From digitisation to creative re-use

Content

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• Sound and Vision

• Digital Agenda for culture in Europe

• Europeana

• Europeana Creative

Sound and Vision history

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• Founded in 1997:

• 3 archives (RVD, AVAC/Omroepen, Stichting Film en Wetenschap)

• 1 museum (Omroepmuseum)

• The largest audiovisual archive of the NL, with the objective to collect,

preserve and open up audiovisual heritage to as many users as possible

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Nederlands Instituut voor

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THE COLLECTION:• 70% audiovisual heritage

• > 800.000 hours

• 2 million photos

• 20.000 objects

ONZE

MISSIEabout

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MISSION

Mission Sound and Vision

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“As guardian of Dutch audiovisual heritage,

we keep Dutch history, as documented in

moving images, alive. We enable everyone

to utilize the collections to learn,

experience and create.”

Mass digitisation

Images for the Future

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• Europe’s largest

digitization project

• Sound and Vision

• Eye film institute

• National Archive

• 7 years (started

2007)

• Restore

• Preserve

• Digitize

• Distribute

• Copyrights

• Contextualize

Collectionsincluding:

• Film from 1898 onwards

• Advertising 1920

• Cinema journals ‘22–’80

• Radio from 1934

• Television from 1951

• News, Current affairs, Sport

• Dutch royal house collection

• Dutch Premier League archive

• National Music Archive

• Former broadcast museum

• Amateur film

• Documentary film

• Photographs

• Visual art collections

• And much more…

Images for the Future project

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Carrier Unit Scheduled Share of

Till mid 2014

Sound and

Vision

Film hours 21.494 77%

Video hours 91.035 100%

Audio hours 98.518 100%

Photo Neg/pos 2.376.049 47%

Trusted Digital Repository

>15 petabyte in 2015

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Europeana: Europe’s portal to cultural heritage

32m records from

2,500 European

galleries,

museums,

archives, libraries

images, sounds,

texts, video, 3D

31 languages

Metadata under CC0

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creative re-use of

digitised content

how?

• content for re-use

• Europeana Labs & technical infrastructure

• Europeana Content Re-use Framework

• five Pilots

• co-creation events

• series of challenge events with the creative

industries

• incubation of the most viable projects

• evaluation cycle

Thematic Pilots

Natural History Education - Memory Card

Game

Application code on GitHub: https://github.com/semantikaeu/memorymatch/

Tourism – VanGoYourself.com

Tired of just looking at paintings?

Tired of just looking at paintings?

Recreate paintings

with your friends …

Starting with 50 paintings

Social Networks -‘Sound Connections’

What Sound Connections does

● Enrich sounds with Europeana materials and

other websources

● Invite communities to interact

labs.europeana.eu

Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/103364847

http://vimeo.com/103364847

Thank you

Lizzy Komen

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

[email protected]

@lizzykomen

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