Interesting links

January 29th, 2010

Below you’ll see some interesting reading material which could be useful one way or the other for our project Images for the Future (and of course other digitization projects). Click here for previous links. Some of the entries are in Dutch.

1. Lawrence Lessig calls Google Book Settlement a Path to Insanity
2. Nationaal Archief moet open standaard gebruiken
3. The Public Domain Manifesto
4. YouTube Music Discovery Project : Find, Mix, Watch
5. Open Content Emerges as Top “Technology to Watch” in 2010
6. EUscreen project website online
7. DEN themadossier over vindbaarheid

 

Waisda? Video Labeling Game: Evaluation Report

January 18th, 2010

The Waisda? (which translates to What’s that?) video labeling game was launched in May 2009. It invites users to tag what they see and hear and receive points for a tag if it matches a tag that their opponent has entered. Waisda? is the world’s first operational video labelling game. The underlying assumption is that tags are most probably valid if there’s mutual agreement. Over 2,000 people played the project and within six months, over 340k tags have been added to over 600 items from the archive. Initial findings have been published earlier, when the pilot period was still running. This evaluation report (PDF download, in Dutch), includes a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the tags, as well as a usability study of the game environment and a study into the incentives that apply to people playing the game. The evaluation report is written by Lotte Belice Baltussen, in collaboration with Maarten Brinkerink and Johan Oomen of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision R&D Department. Researchers at the VU University Amsterdam, Business Web & Media Section, also provided crucial input. The VU University Amsterdam carries out this research in light of their involvement in the PrestoPRIME European research project.

The evaluation report provides evidence that crowdsourcing video annotation in a serious, social game setting can indeed enhance retrieval of video in archives. It features success factors organizations need to take into account in setting up services that aim to actively engage their audiences online. The main conclusions are listed below:

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Interesting links

January 12th, 2010

Below you’ll see some interesting reading material which could be useful one way or the other for our project Images for the Future (and of course other digitization projects). Click here for previous links. Some of the entries are in Dutch.

1. Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller,’ ‘Muppets’ movie debut chosen for US Film Registry
2. Is Wikipedia Loves Art getting “better”?
3. KB scant alle Nederlandse publicaties
4. Projectplan Digitalisering Nederlandse Filmsector in de maak
5. BBC and British Library to take joint approach to building digital archive
6. Bits of Freedom: stop het downloadverbod
7. Musea maken ‘Tentoonstelling gemist’
8. Europeana Tops 5 Million Items
9. Plasterk lanceert Wikiwijs voor docenten
10. Business Model Innovatie in het cultureel erfgoed

 

Advanced video retrieval technology in action: 40 years of Pinkpop

December 12th, 2009

pinkpop40steeditieEarly December, the website www.hollandsglorieoppinkpop.nl was launched; an experimental video search engine offering an innovative way to browse through performances of the Pinkpop festival. Pinkpop, celebrating its 40th birthday this year, is the oldest annual festival in the world. The “Hollands Glorie op Pinkpop” website uses state-of-the-art multimedia retrieval technology, allowing visitors to access performances and interviews based on automatically detected visual concepts and audio transcripts. The website shows how multimedia retrieval technology can be used to easily navigate through collections of video.
“Hollands Glorie op Pinkpop” received financial support from the national research programme MultimediaN, technology foundation STW, and Images for the Future.

Technology developed by Dutch Universities

The technology behind the platform has been built over the past years by Dutch Universities, notably within the scope of the MultimediaN research programme. One of the main components is the MediaMill semantic video search engine. The search engine translates pixels to text; enabling the automatically detection and labeling of visual concepts in images, for instance ‘guitarist’ and ‘drummer’. The MediaMill system, developed by the University of Amsterdam, is considered to be amongst the best performing video search engines worldwide. The Pinkpop project is the first publicly accessible platform that demonstrates the use of this technology. Read the rest of this entry »

 

Interesting links

December 10th, 2009

Below you’ll see some interesting reading material which could be useful one way or the other for our project Images for the Future (and of course other digitization projects). Click here for previous links. Some of the entries are in Dutch.

1. Foto’s van Hans Aarsman gratis te downloaden

2. Dear Lord Mandelson
3. Geen ‘Digital Europe’ zonder herziening auteursrecht
4. Nationaal Archief chatpilot
6. Digitisation of cultural content in Europe
7. 7,5 miljoen voor digitale bibliotheken
8. Meanwhile in Australia
9. Making metadata fun

 

Video Fingerprinting – State of the Art report

December 2nd, 2009

Video-fingerprinting systems detect whether a particular segment of video is (partly) based on the same original video as video footage in a database of reference videos. Typical applications  the media domain include detection of copyright infringement, counting broadcasts of advertisements, detection of changes in advertisements and new applications  are in development. One of these new applications is linking archive footage to finished television productions. For instance to show the link between a documentary and all the clips in the archive it consists of. This will allow users to browse through collections of video in a novel way, as currently the metadata is not supplying users with such detailed metadata.

Sound and Vision is involved in a project (vdFP) that will examine the possibilities of Video Fingerprinting for the abovementioned applications. The vdFP project is managed by TNO and JOANNEUM RESEARCH. Two industrial partners (ZiuZ and HS-ART Digital) and Sound and Vision complete the consortium. Recently, the project has released a State of the Art report. That can be downloaded here. Read the rest of this entry »

 

Interesting links

November 26th, 2009

Below you’ll see some interesting reading material which could be useful one way or the other for our project Images for the Future (and of course other digitization projects). Click here for previous links. Some of the entries are in Dutch.

1. Lost films portal
2. Tropenmuseum en Wikipedia werken samen
3. Utrechtse zoekmachine werkt als menselijk brein
4. De Groene over internetpiraterij
5. Petitie tegen bezuinigingen op digitale kennisinfrastructuur
6. Meanwhile in Kenia
7. How the Portland Art Museum is bringing Art to the People

 

Images for the Future at the AMIA Conference

November 7th, 2009

The annual conference of the Association of Moving Image Archivists is a vibrant and dynamic event that brings together archivists, academics and industry professionals. This year, St. Louis is the host city for the AMIA Conference. On the second day of the event, Johan Oomen (Netherlands Institute Sound and Vision) presented the Images for the Future project. The presentation focussed on on user generated video and user generated metadata. Open Images, the Waisda? tagging game, the Beeld and Geluid wiki and Video Active have been presented as example cases. The presentation is available online at Slideshare.

 

T_Visionarium OPEN CITY 360, 3D cinema in Amsterdam

November 4th, 2009

t_visionariumImages for the Future and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision are two of the partners contributing to T_Visionarium OPEN CITY. T_Visionarium OPEN CITY is an installation about a century of urbanisation in which documentaries, reports, and interviews are presented in innovative fashion and in three dimensions. The 360º installation, 5 metres tall and 10 metres wide, offers visitors a spectacular, new film experience and the chance to browse by themselves through the material and remix it.
Practical information:
Open from 5 to 22 November,
free entrance every day from 9am – 9pm
and from 19 to 22 November until 10pm
Location: Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam
T_Visionarium OPEN CITY is an initiative within the framework of the VPRO series Urban Century in collaboration with the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) Open City: Designing Coexistence, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Images for the Future, and the iCinema Research Centre. Read the rest of this entry »

 

Interesting links

November 3rd, 2009

Below you’ll see some interesting reading material which could be useful one way or the other for our project Images for the Future (and of course other digitization projects). Click here for previous links. Some of the entries are in Dutch.

1. Overzicht augmented reality
2. Tv-sector wil macht van Buma flink inperken
3. Europe backs down on piracy plans
4. Show me the money – Gratis content loont
5. Meanwhile in New Zealand
6. Heritage Malta participates in SmartMuseum
7. Google integreert muziekdienst in zoekmachine
8. Erasmus prize for Europeana
9. YouTube Launches Real-Time Discussion Search and Tracking
10. Actie tegen bezuinigingen innovatie