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TV programme bridges the semantic gap

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The tagging game Waisda? is one of a series of pilots in the Images for the Future project designed to explore the potential for public participation. The game, which invites players to provide t (...)

Making old films accessible calls for passion and patience

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In the restoration lab at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands old films are restored and digitised. They also recently started work on the processing and storage of digital films.

National Archive backstage

The National Archive is standing in line for a huge opportunity of conservation and digitization. At the beginning of June, the National Archive – in collaboration with Sound and Vision and Filmm (...)

Innovation manager Sound and Vision on European projects

At the moment Sound and Vision participates in a variety of national and European research projects, of which Johan Oomen is the project manager. Seems like a good time for an interview.

Sound and Vision in top gear

At the beginning of Images for the Future, in 2007, Sound and Vision mainly focused on achieving the targets for digitization of audio and video material. In October 2008 the audio material counted over 20,000 hours on quarter-inch tapes and DAT tapes, of which the largest part belongs to the Images for the Future project. In collaboration with Technicolor over 11,000 hours of video material has now been digitized as well.

Interview with program director Hans Westerhof

Sound and Vision is not just an archive where audiovisual material is stored. It’s also a production archive that is being used by hundreds of professionals every day. As a result, we have a high (...)