2. IMAGES FOR THE FUTURE
Selection Audiovisual Material and Progress
EUscreen International Conference
Rome, 8 October 2010
Hans van der Windt
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum

3. IMAGES FOR THE FUTURE
• Funded by Dutch government
• Start July 2007
• End July 2014

4. Project objectives
• Conservation, digitisation and encoding of the
material
• Clearing of rights and opening a basic
collection
• Contextualization of the material
• Set up a distribution infrastructure
• New services (education etc)

5. Consortium IMAGES FOR THE FUTURE
• Netherlands National Archive, The Hague
• EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam
• Knowledgeland, Amsterdam
• Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision,
Hilversum

7. 100 years of content
• 137.200 hours of video
• 22.510 hours of film
• 123.900 hours of audio
• 2.900.000 photo’s
Targets for the IMAGES FOR THE FUTURE project

8. Targets Sound and Vision
• 137.200 hours of video
• 17.510 hours of film
• 123.900 hours of audio
• 1.200.000 photo’s

10. Criteria for selection
• Irreplaceable cultural heritage
• Heart of the audiovisual collection
• Reference material

11. Sound and Vision background:
Collecting Areas
• Primarily National Public Broadcasters
• Radio since 1934, television since 1951
• Including broadcasting history
• Government Productions
• Information/education
• Documentary material
• Social Historical Interest
• Amateur Film

12. • Business Productions
• Incl. Heineken, NS (Dutch Railways)
• Commercials
• Music
Sound and Vision collection amounts to 70% of Dutch Audiovisual Heritage

15. Non Audiovisual Materials provide context and
additional historical perspective
• Photos, 2 million
• Objects, 20.000
– Technical: camera’s, broadcasting vans
– Program related: sets, puppets, costumes
– Consumer: TV's, radio’s
• Paper Collections
– Correspondence: Letters, Diaries, Contracts
– Scenarios, shooting scripts; Scrapbooks

17. Material
• Digital Betacam, BCN, VHS
• ¼ inch magnetic audiotape, DAT, lacquer
records
• Nitrate film, acetate film 35mm, 16mm, 8mm
• Negatives, slides, black&white and colour

19. Multimedia catalogue iMMix
• Digital archive
• Software for operation, distribution,
downloading, etc.
• Workflow management
• Ingest client
• Metadata client
• DRM-systeem

21. a ‘Half way there’ moment
target annually result to date june 2010
Digitisation video 137.200 19.600 59.692 1.994
Digitisation film 17.510 2.501 5.458 270
Digitisation audio 123.900 17.700 47.119 1.521
Digitisation photo 1.200.000 171.429 161.322 50.670
1 July 2007 – 30 June 2010
Current result from the project 115.000 hours are
available in file format in our digital archive
Before 2008 this was less than 10.000 hours

22. Digital born content
Annual growth:
• Public television progr. (since 2006/7):
8.000 hours
• Public radio programmes (since 2009):
24.000 hours
Total approx. 1 petabyte per year

23. 2010 situation
115.000
279.000
56.000
250.000
digitised
analogue
born digital
music
approx. 700.000 hours of audiovisual material

24. 2014 situation
278.610
115.000184.000
250.000
digitised
analogue
born digital
music
approx. 825.000 hours of audiovisual material

25. Volume of digital archive
• Currently >3 petabyte
• In 2014 expected >12 petabyte

26. • http://www.beeldenvoordetoekomst.nl
• http://www.beeldengeluid.nl
Videos directed by René Koenders and Leony Kleine, Sound and Vision
hvdwindt@beeldengeluid.nl
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum

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