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Let’s Play at the Museum
The Game On! Project researches strategies and undertakes efforts in preserving and archiving Dutch game history. As an experimental method for preservation purposes, a number of Let’s Play videos have been recorded with museum visitors at...
Let’s Play at the Museum
The Game On! Project researches strategies and undertakes efforts in preserving and archiving Dutch game history. As an experimental method for preservation purposes, a number of Let’s Play videos have been recorded with museum visitors at...
What the past looked like in color (according to a computer)
Ever wanted to know what historical images would look like in color? Rudy Marsman used a computer algorithm to add color to six black and white films from the archives of the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision.
What the past looked like in color (according to a computer)
Ever wanted to know what historical images would look like in color? Rudy Marsman used a computer algorithm to add color to six black and white films from the archives of the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision.
Impact metrics: going viral with animated GIFs
This year we commissioned GIF artist Kiszkiloszki (Kajetan Obarski) to make animated GIFs based on our openly licensed archival footage. Time to look at some numbers on the impact they made.
Impact metrics: going viral with animated GIFs
This year we commissioned GIF artist Kiszkiloszki (Kajetan Obarski) to make animated GIFs based on our openly licensed archival footage. Time to look at some numbers on the impact they made.
Ready to Reach Out: Connecting Cultural Heritage Collections
Source image: report of Ready to Reach OutIn the framework of the Netherlands’ Presidency of the EU, the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science organized a conference last June on t...
Ready to Reach Out: Connecting Cultural Heritage Collections
Source image: report of Ready to Reach OutIn the framework of the Netherlands’ Presidency of the EU, the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science organized a conference last June on t...
Tools of the Trade
A report on the PREFORMA funded symposium "No Time to Wait!: Standardizing FFV1 & Matroska for Preservation" in Berlin.
Tools of the Trade
A report on the PREFORMA funded symposium "No Time to Wait!: Standardizing FFV1 & Matroska for Preservation" in Berlin.
Building a better developer community: OR 2016
Sound & Vision R&D team member and EuropeanaTech Community Manager, Gregory Markus attended OR2016 as part of a panel focused on transnational open source development and improving collaborative technical development in amongst heritage ins...
Building a better developer community: OR 2016
Sound & Vision R&D team member and EuropeanaTech Community Manager, Gregory Markus attended OR2016 as part of a panel focused on transnational open source development and improving collaborative technical development in amongst heritage ins...
Iets Nieuws: Are you a great newscaster?
In the context of the Observe project and Lukas Hulsbergen's thesis, we developed the interactive game/web toy Iets Nieuws. In the game participants are asked to do voice overs for Sound & Vision's Open Images videos.
Iets Nieuws: Are you a great newscaster?
In the context of the Observe project and Lukas Hulsbergen's thesis, we developed the interactive game/web toy Iets Nieuws. In the game participants are asked to do voice overs for Sound & Vision's Open Images videos.
Connecting collections across national borders
In the project “Gemeenschappelijke Thesaurus voor Uniforme Ontsluiting” a case study to connect partial collections of the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision and the Flemish VIAA archive by aligning their thesauri was held.
Connecting collections across national borders
In the project “Gemeenschappelijke Thesaurus voor Uniforme Ontsluiting” a case study to connect partial collections of the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision and the Flemish VIAA archive by aligning their thesauri was held.
Turning historical newsreels into awesome GIF animations
Sound & Vision asked animated GIF artist Kajetan Obarski a.k.a. Kiszkiloszki to make awesome GIF animations from historical newsreels. Here's what he came up with.
Turning historical newsreels into awesome GIF animations
Sound & Vision asked animated GIF artist Kajetan Obarski a.k.a. Kiszkiloszki to make awesome GIF animations from historical newsreels. Here's what he came up with.