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Over three cold days in February 2018, the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision gave a warm welcome to participants of the 3rd Annual Winter School for Audio Visual Archiving. Delivered via lectures, workshops and guest talks, one of th...
All aboard! Winter School 2018
Over three cold days in February 2018, the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision gave a warm welcome to participants of the 3rd Annual Winter School for Audio Visual Archiving. Delivered via lectures, workshops and guest talks, one of th...
Shortwave radio used to be a powerful means to reach people all over the world. Nowadays new media technologies, such as broadband, mobiles and tablets, enable us to listen via the world wide web. Are the programming formats used by radio m...
Connecting people through radio
Shortwave radio used to be a powerful means to reach people all over the world. Nowadays new media technologies, such as broadband, mobiles and tablets, enable us to listen via the world wide web. Are the programming formats used by radio m...
What do you get when you offer a group of designers access to a million-hour audiovisual archive? That was the question of the annual professional development programme Open Set Lab undertook in collaboration with the Design Academy Eindhov...
Designers in the Archives: Open Set Lab
What do you get when you offer a group of designers access to a million-hour audiovisual archive? That was the question of the annual professional development programme Open Set Lab undertook in collaboration with the Design Academy Eindhov...
Virtual Reality (VR) applications are now firmly embedded across industries as diverse as education, architectural design, gaming and in the cultural heritage sector. Said heritage, sector as of yet, pays little attention to the long-term p...
Preserving the emerging: VR in memory institutions
Virtual Reality (VR) applications are now firmly embedded across industries as diverse as education, architectural design, gaming and in the cultural heritage sector. Said heritage, sector as of yet, pays little attention to the long-term p...
After nearly two decades tucked away in the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision’s depots RE:VIVE has partnered with the Research Center for Material Culture for Unlocking Sounds, a collaboration featuring new EPs from three leading con...
DIG! DELVE! DAMN! Artists unlock the sounds of the Tropenmuseum
After nearly two decades tucked away in the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision’s depots RE:VIVE has partnered with the Research Center for Material Culture for Unlocking Sounds, a collaboration featuring new EPs from three leading con...
In February the Europeana Sounds project formally ended after three years of hard work on expanding and improving the offering of sound and music heritage through Europeana. Sound & Vision R&D was responsible for several tasks, including le...
Europeana Sounds Receives High Praise at its Final Review
In February the Europeana Sounds project formally ended after three years of hard work on expanding and improving the offering of sound and music heritage through Europeana. Sound & Vision R&D was responsible for several tasks, including le...
Is it possible to stimulate the economy with the creative re-use of cultural heritage? It’s a question that has often been asked by funding institutions, such as the European Commission, to justify the millions of Euros spent on digitizatio...
Where’s the money? Finding value in reuse of heritage materials
Is it possible to stimulate the economy with the creative re-use of cultural heritage? It’s a question that has often been asked by funding institutions, such as the European Commission, to justify the millions of Euros spent on digitizatio...
What happens to an interactive documentary when the technology it runs on becomes obsolete? When GPS stops responding, APIs go dark, or the cursor simply disappears? Preserving interactive works is one of the most urgent and underexplored c...
Future-proofing Interactive Works
What happens to an interactive documentary when the technology it runs on becomes obsolete? When GPS stops responding, APIs go dark, or the cursor simply disappears? Preserving interactive works is one of the most urgent and underexplored c...
Sound & Vision’s Second Winter School for Audiovisual Archiving For the second year in a row, Sound & Vision organised its Winter School for audiovisual archivists. Fourteen local and international collection specialists gathered in Hilv...
Bit Rot Be Gone
Sound & Vision’s Second Winter School for Audiovisual Archiving For the second year in a row, Sound & Vision organised its Winter School for audiovisual archivists. Fourteen local and international collection specialists gathered in Hilv...