Results

Event

Heritage sector innovator network at Museums and the Web

06 April 2011 The innovative capacity of the heritage sector is ripe for cultivation, but there is often not enough scope for, or priority given to, innovation in the relevant organisations.
News

Evaluation of video labeling game ‘Waisda?’

19 January 2010 On the 19th of May 2009 the Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision launched ‘Waisda?’ in collaboration with KRO, an innovative annotation game for video. In the form of a challenging game Waisda? asks the player to add keywords (tags) to video material. Its goal is to enhance the searchability of audiovisual archives. Waisda? is based upon the principle that one can speak of a meaningful description when several people individually give the same tag to a video. Waisda? is the world’s first operat (...)
News

Images for the Future on Museum on the Web

07 April 2009 Images for the Future has been invited to organize a workshop for Museums on the Web. An annual conference about online developments in the cultural, scientific and heritage sector (15th-18th of April 2009).
Backstage

TV programme bridges the semantic gap

Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike - Beelden voor de toekomst 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 (...)
Research

Economies of the Commons 2: Paying the Costs of Making Things Free

International conference, seminar and public evening programs. Conference report by Lotte Belice Baltussen and Wietske van den Heuvel.
Research

Open Architecture to Augment Landmarks for Location-Based Services

The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision R&D department has designed and developed a complete technical architecture to support (mobile) location-based services for cultural heritage