Through a new Audiovisual Think Tank, visionary experts in the AV cultural heritage sector are working together to map out our shared strategic priorities and put into place a research and action agenda to shape the coming decade. The AV Think Tank looks to represent major AV archives and digital cultural heritage professionals from across the globe and closely connects these key players to work collectively at the forefront of the sector in consultation with the wider community. Initiated and actively supported by Sound and Vision, the AV Think Tank aims to lay the groundwork for an AV archiving sector that enables more long-term use of, learning with, and education through AV materials.

1. Johan Oomen
Research and Development
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
@johanoomen
Defining an Innovation Agenda for
Audiovisual Archivists and Cultural
Heritage Professionals

2. Content needs to
be visible to be
valuable

4. “It’s about what you do with your collections”

5. “Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.”
― Cory Doctorow

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…
• more and more producers and the need for
curation
• knowledge about organising collections
• digital archives connected and share same
information space.
• new user groups
• new forms of collaboration
• more insight in how archives are used
The potential

7. • audiovisual communication is the dominant form of
media today and the audiovisual archive lies at
its heart.
• interest in material for research, entertainment, inspiration…
• more and more producers and the need for
curation
• knowledge about organising collections
• digital archives connected and share same
information space.
• new user groups
• new forms of collaboration
• more insight in how archives are used
The potential
…more Americans prefer to watch their news (46%)
than to read it (35%) or listen to it (17%).

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

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12. http://radio.garden

13. different layers:
Live feeds
Archive
Jingles
Stories
http://radio.garden

14. http://www.themindoftheuniverse.org/

17. …what are the key challenges?

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

20. Libraries

21. Innovation in
Cultural Heritage
Research
For an integrated European Research Policy
Research and
Innovation
March 2018
Experimental
Culture
A horizon scan
commissioned by
Arts Council England
Summary report and provocations
Under embargo until 00∶01 Thursday 15 March 2018
ReACHReproduction of Art and Cultural Heritage
in partnership with
Museums

22. NEM Position on Next Generation Internet
(January 2018 – by NEM NGI Working Group)
The publication has been supported by the Vital Media project, which initiated creation of
the NEM Working Group on Next Generation Internet - NGI, contributed to its content,
gathered inputs to the publication from the NEM Initiative community, followed up the
publication approval process, coordinated all related activities, and consolidated all version
of the publication.
VITAL MEDIA is a support action project under the Horizon 2020 Programme of the
European Union – number: 688310 – project duration: June 2016 – May 2018.
Media

23. Audiovisual Think Tank
Bill Thompson, BBC, Head of Partnership Development, Archive
Development & Partnership Lead, Make It Digital
Erwin Verbruggen, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Project
Lead R&D
Giovanna Fossati, EYE Film Institute Netherlands, Chief Curator &
University of Amsterdam, Professor of Film Heritage and Digital Film
Culture
Johan Oomen, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Manager,
Research & Development
Louise Broch, DR Arkiv (Danmarks Radio /Danish Broadcasting
Corporation), Information Specialist
Dr Phang Lai Tee, National Archives of Singapore, Deputy Director,
an institution of the National Library Board
Paul Gerhardt, BFI, Director of Education
Pelle Snickars, Umeå University, Professor of Media & Communication
Studies
Peter B. Kaufman, Intelligent Television, Founder and Executive
Producer & MIT Office of Digital Learning, Research Affiliate
Rachael Stoeltje, Indiana University Bloomington, Director, Indiana
University Libraries Moving Image Archive
Richard Ranft, The British Library, Head of Sound & Vision
Tony Ageh, New York Public Library, Chief Digital Officer
William Uricchio, MIT, Professor of Comparative Media Studies and
Principal Investigator Open Doc Lab & Utrecht University, Professor of
Comparative Media Histor

25. 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

26. Towards a New
Audiovisual
Think Tank
for Audiovisual
Archivists and
Cultural Heritage
Professionals
Peter B. Kaufman
Intelligent Television and MIT
January 2018
ten recommendations

28. “We need guidelines of dealing
with new formats and new
materials”
“What can the film-
producer community do
to better promote our
archives?”
“Files without sufficient metadata constitute a black hole”
cc-by-sa: Erwin Verbruggen
cc-by-sa: Erwin Verbruggen

29. “we must focus on ‘the
diffusion of this patrimony’”
cc-by-sa: Erwin Verbruggen
cc-by-sa: Erwin Verbruggen
“We have to know our
catalogs - the size of the
whole dinosaur”

30. 1. Work more closely with producers and creators
2. Experiment within AV archives
3. Engage more fully with Wikipedia
4. Engage archivists to work more closely with
producers and creators
Hot topics

31. Future steps
Discuss the white paper with the
AV archiving community
See which actions can be taken
Research agenda
Joint projects
Writing research papers
Technology Watch

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