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General information

The archives of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Sound and Vision) in Hilversum, of EYE in Amsterdam, and of the National Archive in The Hague contain the visual history of the past 100 years. Films, documentaries, radiobroadcast, and television programmes comprise more than 700.000 hours worth of material. The costs for creating this oeuvre have run into the billions. The educational, cultural, and economical value of this material is unprecedented.

Organisation

Information about de consortium partners responsible for the project Images for the Future. Images for the Future is a project by EYE Film Institute Netherlands, Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision, National Archives and Knowledgeland.

Images for the Future partner in Open Culture Data

01 February 2012 a network that facilitates open access to cultural data and stimulates the development of value-added cultural applications. Images for the Future supports the Open Culture Data network by providing access to as many available open datasets in the project as possible, making special cultural awards available and by jointly organising hackathons.

Use Survey: photos viewed much more often if context provided

03 November 2011 By including relevant information with the photos you increase the chance of people coming face to face with cultural heritage.

Launch of ‘60 Years of TV in the Netherlands’ Timeline

23 September 2011 Online timeline provides a clear overview of 60 years of TV in the Netherlands. For this 60th anniversary, the project Images for the Future has collected highlights from the collections of the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision, the Dutch National Archives and the EYE Film Institute Netherlands on www.tv60jaar.nl.

How much has been digitised up to now?

13 July 2011 At the moment, 60% of the planned amount of film material has been digitised, 86% of the planned amount of video, 57% of the planned amount of audio and 88% of the planned amount of photographs.