Images for the Future - Hans van der Windt

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

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

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)

Consortium IMAGES FOR THE FUTURE
Netherlands National Archive, The Hague
EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam
Knowledgeland, Amsterdam

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

a ‘Half way there’ moment 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

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

2010 situation approx. 700.000 hours of audiovisual material

2014 situation approx. 825.000 hours of audiovisual material

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

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