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Metadatamodel Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
No full textThe NISV archive holds a variety of material, such as audio, video, images, documents and physical objects like cameras, costumes and papers. The metadata model contains the descriptive metadata for all these different asset types. The MAM-system is called ‘DAAN’. Its internal database holds all descriptive metadata as
well as technical metadata of the digital assets of NISV. This document gives an overview of the NISV metadatamodel. It covers all descriptive metadata, as well as most technical metadata of all assets
Digital Preservation Sound and Vision: Policy, Standards and Procedures
No full textThis document is an updated version of the Digital Preservation Sound and Vision: Policy, Standards and Procedures from 2016. The purpose of this document is to further contribute to the development and promotion of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (in short Sound and Vision or NISV) as a leading media archive that has identified sustainable digital preservation as one of its leading business processes. With that in mind, this document explicitly outlines all principles and choices that form the basis for execution of this business. The digital objects and their lifecycle are defined, services and guarantees are described in detail and a record is made of how Sound and Vision complies with technical and staff quality requirements. By documenting the current policy and the standards employed, it is possible to account to all parties that entrust their digital collections to Sound and Vision, to the users of those collections, and to subsidy-awarding bodies. The document also offers the staff of Sound and Vision transparency and clarity on the rules and procedures that apply
2023-12-17 - Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision - CoreTrustSeal Requirements 2020-2022
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YouTube comments as media heritage
Full text linkThis internship research project is about approaches to using YouTube and YouTube comments at The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. The research aims to answer the question: How can YouTube comments be utilised by Sound and Vision as a media heritage archive
Looking for What You are Looking for: A Media Researcher’s First Search in a Television Archive
No full textIn this essay, the author reflects on her first search with the online search system of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. This was part of a pilot study on how media researchers use the audiovisual archive. Her search was being logged, video taped and sound recorded, she had to ‘think aloud’, and all of this in the presence of a fellow researcher from computer sciences who observed her search behaviour. By showing how she found some relevant programmes among more than 1.2 million items, this article illustrates how archival finding by media researchers can be understood as archival looking or ‘exploratory search’
Media History in the Netherlands: Some Observations1 (1993)
No full textArticle published in 1993 in GBG-nieuws related to a seminar on Media History in the Netherlands. Republished in 2014 in Tijdschrift voor mediageschiedenis in the context of a seminar held in september 2014 at Sound and Vision on the past 25 years of Media History and its future
Collection plan for Sound and Vision 2019
Full text linkThe media landscape is in constant flux. The media are all around us, all of the time. Information comes to us from countless sources—from said media, or from friends and influencers. Daily social media use has in large numbers turned the traditional recipients of yore into broadcasters, in search of audiences both large and small. This media explosion brings new challenges to the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, which aims to capture media’s history and impact on individuals and society, and preserve them for study and reuse purposes in the long run. This collection policy plan informs the creators and users of the collection about the way in which our institute handles its collection, and the choices we make in relation to its creation, management and accessibility. It forms the basis for collaboration with media professionals, heritage professionals, researchers, teachers and private individuals who use the collection and want to develop it further, together with us
Crowdsourcing Television’s Past: The State of Knowledge in Digital Archives
No full textThe proliferation of digital technologies has changed the way we perceive of and use audiovisual archives and their holdings. The emergence of virtual archives and online portals is changing the relation between the keepers and users of audiovisual heritage, challenging the role of the archivist as principal expert on the knowledge the collection represents. In this article I investigate the implications of these developments for the status of the (audiovisual) archive as a gatekeeper of knowledge. Author discusses a recent experiment with social tag-ging, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision’s video labeling game WAISDA?, and asks to what extent experiments like this destabilize the existing archival platforms for validating and describing audiovisual heritage. She argues that, even though these new forms of access introduce a new type of ‘participatory knowledge’, in fact digitization only exposes the archives’ inherently dynamic, performative nature
Convergent Cultures: The Disappearance of Commissioned Audiovisual Productions in The Netherlands
No full textThe article analyses the changes in production and consumption in the audiovisual industry and the way the so-called ‘ephemeral’ commissioned productions are scarcely preserved. New technologies and the liberal economic policies and internationalisation changed the media landscape in the 1980s. Audiovisual companies created a broad range of products within the audiovisual industry. This also resulted in a democratisation of the use of media as well as new formats of programmes and distribution for commissioned productions. By looking at a specific company that recently handed over a collection to the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, challenges and issues of preserving video and digital and interactive audiovisual productions are discussed
New Life for Old Media: Investigations into Speech Synthesis and Deep Learning-based Colorization for Audiovisual Archives
Full text linkThe Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (NISV) is the national audiovisual archive and media museum of the Netherlands. The collections comprise of over one million hours of audiovisual material. One of the collections is that of the so-called “Polygoon” newsreels from the 20th century. This paper outlines recent explorations where Artificial Intelligence technologies are used to enrich this archival material to allow for new types of engagement. Firstly, we investigated leveraging an existing, limited corpus of broadcast narration by a single person to build a working text-to-speech (TTS) system. Secondly, we
investigated the possibility of colorization of old black-and-white video footage from the Polygoon newsreel collection using Deep Learning approaches
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