General information

The archives of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Sound and Vision) in Hilversum, of EYE in Amsterdam, and of the National Archive in The Hague contain the visual history of the past 100 years. Films, documentaries, radiobroadcast, and television programmes comprise more than 700.000 hours worth of material. The costs for creating this oeuvre have run into the billions. The educational, cultural, and economical value of this material is unprecedented.

Goal

Saving and making available important Dutch audiovisual heritage of the 20th century. Images for the Future is innovating, which will benefit the heritage sector and makes the Netherlands an international forefront of digitization of cultural heritage.

Organisation

Information about de consortium partners responsible for the project Images for the Future. Images for the Future is a project by EYE Film Institute Netherlands, Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision, National Archives and Knowledgeland.

Background

The archives of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Sound and Vision) in Hilversum, of EYE in Amsterdam, and of the National Archive in The Hague contain the visual history of the past 100 years. The educational, cultural, and economical value of this material is unprecedented. Two obstacles stand in the way of silvering this wealth.

Activities

Images for the Future’s activities can be seen as a chain: the next step can only be taken when the current one has been worked through and completed. We distinguish between the following links in the project: 1.Restoring and preserving 2. Digitizing collections 3. Adding meta-data 4. Making arrangements with copyright holders 5. Contextualizing the collections 6. Channeling content through services and distribution towards the end user

Images for the Future partner in Open Cultural Data

01 February 2012 a network that facilitates open access to cultural data and stimulates the development of value-added cultural applications. Images for the Future supports the Open Culture Data network by providing access to as many available open datasets in the project as possible, making special cultural awards available and by jointly organising hackathons.