My contribution to the panel on Memory Institutions during Cultura Viva in Barcelona.

1. Maarten Brinkerink
Netherlands Institute for Sounds and Vision
mbrinkerink@beeldengeluid.nl
@mbrinkerink
OPEN IMAGES
Culture is lively, when it is reused!
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3. SOUND AND VISION
Sound and Vision (NISV) has one of
the largest audiovisual archives in
Europe. The institute manages over
70 percent of the Dutch audiovisual
heritage. The collection contains more
than a million hours of television,
radio, music and film from the
beginning in 1898 until today.
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4. PUBLIC MISSION
The Netherlands Institute for Sound
and Vision is a cultural-historical
organization of national interest. It
collects, preserves and opens the
audiovisual heritage for as many
users as possible: media
professionals, education, science and
the general public.
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5. OPEN ACCESS POLICY
• We aim to make our collection publicly
available online
• When IPR has expired, we explicitly mark the
material as being part of the Public Domain
• When the institution owns IPR, we make the
material available under an open license
• When third party rights holders (partly) own
IPR, we aim to obtain permission to make the
material available online on their behalf
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6. OPEN IMAGES
Open Images is an
open media
platform that offers
online access to
audiovisual
archive material to
stimulate (creative)
reuse.
• Open content
• Open source
• Open formats
• Open standards
• Open API
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10. EXAMPLE: VIDEO ON WIKIPEDIA
• Through Open Images, NISV shares over
4,000 open video items
• This is 8% of the total amount of video
available on Wikimedia Commons
• This includes almost 3,500 historical
newsreels, and recent raw nature footage
• This is a mix of PD and openly licensed
material ‘owned’ by the institute
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13. IMPACT
• Over 40% of the available open video items
are being reuse at least once
• In total almost 4,000 Wikipedia articles reuse
the items, spread over 98 language versions
of Wikipedia
• On a monthly basis, these articles are viewed
over 4,000,00 times
• Since 2010 this growing open collection has
attracted over 160,000,000 pageviews
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14. PUTTING THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE
• The entire NISV collection contains
1,000,000 hours of audiovisual
material
• Through Open Images NISV shares
150 hours of video and 150 hours of
audio
• This is just 0.03% of the collection
• The potential is enormous!!!
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15. THANKS!!!
mbrinkerink@beeldengeluid.nl
@mbrinkerink (Twitter)
More info:
www.openimages.eu
https://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en/blogs/research-amp-
development-en/201409/sound-and-vision-future-video-
wikipedia
https://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en/blogs/research-amp-
development-en/201506/dutch-cultural-heritage-reaches-
millions-every-month
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