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TV programme bridges the semantic gap

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The tagging game Waisda? is one of a series of pilots in the Images for the Future project designed to explore the potential for public participation. The game, which invites players to provide t (...)

Pictura Imaginis, images of images

As part of the Images for the Future project, the Pictura company in the North Holland town of Heiloo is digitising a total of 1.4 million negatives from the archives of the Nationaal Archief, So (...)

A passion for film

Tom De Smet has been the manager of the Film Department at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum since 1 January 2010. Prior to that, he was the project manager for film con (...)

Innovation manager Sound and Vision on European projects

At the moment Sound and Vision participates in a variety of national and European research projects, of which Johan Oomen is the project manager. Seems like a good time for an interview.

Sound and Vision in top gear

At the beginning of Images for the Future, in 2007, Sound and Vision mainly focused on achieving the targets for digitization of audio and video material. In October 2008 the audio material counted over 20,000 hours on quarter-inch tapes and DAT tapes, of which the largest part belongs to the Images for the Future project. In collaboration with Technicolor over 11,000 hours of video material has now been digitized as well.

Interview with program director Hans Westerhof

Sound and Vision is not just an archive where audiovisual material is stored. It’s also a production archive that is being used by hundreds of professionals every day. As a result, we have a high (...)