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Toward the New Enlightenment
Film, Sound, and the Promise of New Technology
Screening the Future 2011
PrestoCentre
Hilversum
March 14, 2011

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‣ PrestoCentre
‣ “Keeping audiovisual content alive”

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‣ Anatoly Lunacharsky
‣ Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment, 1917-1929
‣ Believed all people had the right to all knowledge

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I. The new Enlightenment
II. Five recommendations
(plus 1 free bonus recommendation!)
III. Conclusion

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‣ http://www.ina.fr/histoire-et-conflits/seconde-guerre-
mondiale/video/AFE85001142/l-amiral-darlan-en-
afrique.fr.html

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‣ http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf

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Comité des Sages report highlights:
- “There is no more urgent question than to secure
the access of current and future generations”
- Digitization “a moral imperative”
Estimated cost: 100 billion Euros
Still to go:
- 24 million hours of audiovisual programs
- 358 million photos
- 75 million works of art
- 77 million books
- 10 billion pages of archives
- Private sector “must be involved”
- Digitized cultural content “important raw material for services and products”
- Reach for a digital Renaissance instead of a digital Dark Age

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‣ http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/
activities/digital_libraries/comite_des_sages/
index_en.htm

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I. The New Enlightenment

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‣ Anatoly Lunacharsky
‣ Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment, 1917-1929
‣ Believed all people had the right to all knowledge

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‣ www.samharris.org

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‣ www.kk.org

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‣ “Avatar”
‣ James Cameron
‣ Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., 2009

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‣ http://popcornjs.org/

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‣ http://popcornjs.org/
‣ http://www.rebelliouspixels.com/
semanticremix/

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II. Five recommendations
(plus 1 free bonus!)

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Recommendation 1:
Engage our publics!
Develop sophisticated marketing strategies for our
audiovisual collections and investments.

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‣ “Mnemosyne,” directed by John Okomfrah (2010)
‣ UK Arts Council film archives

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‣ http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf

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Recommendation 2:
Engage with technology!
Make our content completely discoverable.

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‣ New partners

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‣ The “Music Genome Project”

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‣ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
Commons:Wikipedia_Video_and_Education

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‣ http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf

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Recommendation 3:
Facilitate use, and clear rights:
Lead this charge: collaborate with current owners and
their lawyers!

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‣ “The Anatomy of a Video Clip” (2010)

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‣ “The Anatomy of a Video Clip” (2010)

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Recommendation 4:
Partner with producers - where archives began!
Build guidelines to modern productions from an
archival point of view!

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Recommendation 5:
Work with business!
Collectively determine best practices for public-private
partnerships in audiovisual cultural heritage.

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‣ Chiquitaleaks - INT - 2011

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Bonus Recommendation # 6:
Work with Americans!!!