Talk given at COPEAM 2018. “Heritage and Media – Preserving the future through our past: an opportunity for growth and democracy?” Calviá - Mallorca, 10-12 May 2018 Hotel Meliá Calviá Beach Calle Violeta, 1 Calviá Beach - 07181 Mallorca, Spain Cultural heritage embraces resources inherited from the past and offers a great variety of opportunities to the present: monuments, sites and traditions, but also visual arts, cinema, TV and radio archives. In this framework, the Media of the Euro-Mediterranean region – both traditional and new ones – have to play their role, particularly given the challenges that such issue implies in terms of content production, audiovisual documents preservation and impact of the digital transition as a tool for the safeguard and enhancement of our common heritage.

1. Open, Smart and Connected access to
Audiovisual Collections
Johan Oomen
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
@johanoomen
Heritage and Media – Preserving the
future through our past: an opportunity
for growth and democracy?

2. Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

4. the “Westerbork Films”
UNESCO MoW registry

5. A
annual ingest:
8.000 hrs video
54.000 hrs radio
=
~1,5 petabyte
Visuals https://vimeo.com/51425368 - Sebastiaan ter Burg CC-BY
size ~17 petabyte

6. • audiovisual communication is the dominant
form of media today and the audiovisual
archive lies at its heart.
• interest in material for research, entertainment, inspiration…
• digital archives connected and share same
information space.
• new user groups
• new forms of collaboration
• more insight in how archives are used
• more and more producers and the need for
curation
• knowledge about organising collections
Audiovisual collections online

7. …how can we meet the challenges
of the future? Collectively.

8. Towards a New
Audiovisual
Think Tank
for Audiovisual
Archivists and
Cultural Heritage
Professionals
Peter B. Kaufman
Intelligent Television and MIT
January 2018
https://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en/
knowledge/hub/av-think-tank

9. Content needs to
be visible to be
valuable

10. Europeana and EUscreen

11. 50 Million digitized objects!

16. 1.2 Million video’s

19. Audiovisual
collections
National Aggregators
Regional AggregatorsArchives
Thematic collections
Libraries
e.g. Musées
Lausannois
e.g.
Culture Grid,
Culture.fr
e.g. The
European
Library
e.g. APEX
e.g. EUscreen,
European Film Gateway,
Europeana Sounds
e.g. Judaica Europeana,
Europeana Fashion

21. Audiovisual
collections
National Aggregators
Regional AggregatorsArchives
Thematic collections
Libraries
e.g. Musées
Lausannois
e.g.
Culture Grid,
Culture.fr
e.g. The
European
Library
e.g. APEX
e.g. EUscreen,
European Film Gateway,
Europeana Sounds
e.g. Judaica Europeana,
Europeana Fashion

22. euscreen.eu

23. 31 organisations from 22 European
countries
• Archives
• Technology providers
• Universities

25. The website (1/2)

26. The website (2/2)
60.000 video’s and stills

27. VIEW Journal

28. On Europeana:1.000.000 Records

29. Open access

30. https://openimages.eu/

31. Soccer

32. Ed
Wikipedia edit-a-thon

34. Measuring impact: 4.000 video’s
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

35. http://www.themindoftheuniverse.org/
Mind of the Universe

36. TV Channel website
YouTube channel

37. Open Source Science TV

38. http://publications.beeldengeluid.nl/pub/60
Publication of
Public
Broadcasting
Content
in the Commons
A Practitioners’ Statement
Maarten Brinkerink
Sound and Vision
Authors
Gertjan Kuiper
VPRO
Jesse de Vos
Sound and Vision
April 2018

39. Online courses

40. joomen@beeldengeluid.nl
@johanoomen
Thank you!