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Last week, Sound & Vision hosted the FIAT/IFTA media management seminar. 170 delegates from all over the world flew in to learn about how metadata can be the cornerstone of digital archiving.
R&D presents at FIAT/IFTA

Last week, Sound & Vision hosted the FIAT/IFTA media management seminar. 170 delegates from all over the world flew in to learn about how metadata can be the cornerstone of digital archiving.

Forty fashion enthusiasts gathered last Monday at Centraal Museum for our second fashion edit-a-thon. Sarah Knuvelder, who works at Sound and vision's education department, and Gabriëlle de Pooter from the Antwerp-based ModeMuseum report.
Fashion Community Unites at the Utrecht Edit-a-Thon

Forty fashion enthusiasts gathered last Monday at Centraal Museum for our second fashion edit-a-thon. Sarah Knuvelder, who works at Sound and vision's education department, and Gabriëlle de Pooter from the Antwerp-based ModeMuseum report.

Our paper on Open Culture Data has been selected for the prestigious Museums and the Web conference proceedings. The article details how the initiative came into being and explores what its impact could be for the world of galleries, librar...
Opening up Museums and the Web

Our paper on Open Culture Data has been selected for the prestigious Museums and the Web conference proceedings. The article details how the initiative came into being and explores what its impact could be for the world of galleries, librar...

15 Dutch artists, cultural organisations and companies receive a Best Practice rosette today for their outstanding digital art or culture projects. Two of these rosettes were awarded to participants in the Open Cultuur Data network: a data...
Rosettes for Open Culture

15 Dutch artists, cultural organisations and companies receive a Best Practice rosette today for their outstanding digital art or culture projects. Two of these rosettes were awarded to participants in the Open Cultuur Data network: a data...

What makes music ‘catchy’? Most of us feel that we know the ‘hook’ in a piece of music when we hear it – but most of us are equally at loss to explain exactly why. A talk by John Ashley Burgoyne on Thursday 25April will introduce an ongoing...
Fishing for Hooks

What makes music ‘catchy’? Most of us feel that we know the ‘hook’ in a piece of music when we hear it – but most of us are equally at loss to explain exactly why. A talk by John Ashley Burgoyne on Thursday 25April will introduce an ongoing...

The R&D department at Sound & Vision has been studying and experimenting with speech recognition technology in a number of different projects and was invited to the closing conference of the British Library's 'Opening up Speech Archives' pr...
Speech recognition helps research into moving image collections

The R&D department at Sound & Vision has been studying and experimenting with speech recognition technology in a number of different projects and was invited to the closing conference of the British Library's 'Opening up Speech Archives' pr...

LinkedTV's first annual periodic report reveals the key achievements of the project in its first year and reflects the high amount of progress that has been made in all areas of the project's research and development.
LinkedTV's first year concluded

LinkedTV's first annual periodic report reveals the key achievements of the project in its first year and reflects the high amount of progress that has been made in all areas of the project's research and development.

The Europeana Pro blog recently featured an introduction to their circle of Network Officers. The Europeana Network unites all individuals who have a stake in Europeana. Their second introduction features the R&D department's manager, Johan...
Europeana's Network Officers

The Europeana Pro blog recently featured an introduction to their circle of Network Officers. The Europeana Network unites all individuals who have a stake in Europeana. Their second introduction features the R&D department's manager, Johan...

In this guest post, Jesse de Vos reports on the conference Collecting and Presenting Born-Digital Art...
Collecting and Presenting Born-Digital Art

In this guest post, Jesse de Vos reports on the conference Collecting and Presenting Born-Digital Art...