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.
Kennisland (Knowledgeland) has put together an inventory of social tagging possibilities as an instrument in making photographic collections available. The analysis provides several points of reference by covering both national and international initiatives. Send us an e-mail (moo@kl.nl) if you like to receive the entire report as PDF (in Dutch).
1. EU investeert 120 miljoen in digitale bibliotheken
2. Cloudspeakers aggregeert legaal materiaal
3. Opening soon: a digital library for Europe
4. ICT-gebruik in musea: digitalisering nog in kinderschoenen
5. Olympische Spelen in Nederland (1928)
6. Media firms find that statistics on internet piracy can be rather useful
7. Alternative film site Raindance.tv raises € 600.000
8. Als het publiek de baas is
9. YouTube-bioscoop selecteert op kwaliteit
10. De virtuele cultuurbezoeker
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As part of Images for the Future the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and Knowledgeland are developing Open Images. The aim of this project is to offer online access to a selection of archive material for creative reuse. Reuse includes remixing of archive footage in new videos. Open Images also supports interlinking with other data sources (like Wikipedia), allowing the easy creation of mashups. Access to the content will be based on the Creative Commons model which proposes a middle way to rights management, rather than the extremes of the pure public domain or the reservation of all rights. The ‘open’ nature of the project is underscored by adapting open formats and using open source software. Software resulting from Open Images will also be released under a open source license.
The development of the project started with a kick-off meeting at Knowledgeland in Amsterdam, earlier this month. The aim-of-the-day was to map the (open source) digital video solutions that are available today and to get feedback. Eight experts in the digital video field where invited to this informal brainstorm session. After an introduction of Images for the Future and the Open Images project plan, the invited experts gave inspiring presentations of their current work. At the end of the day there was a general discussion about the project plan and the first steps that ought to be taken.
Please find a report of this day below. Open Images aims to launch a Beta release by the end of the year.
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Tags: audiovisual heritage, brainstorm, Creative Commons, creative reuse, mashup, open content, open source, project development, remix, showcase
This entry was posted by Maarten Brinkerink
on Thursday, July 17th, 2008 at 10:23 am and is filed under Intellectual Property, Technology.
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The first panel Audiovisual Archives of the ‘Economies of Commons’ conference concentrates on the accessibility by digital technology for the wide public and education purposes. The new online access and distribution possibilities are discussed on a technical level and also in the perspective of national and international rights issues.
In his presentation ‘Inside the Media’, Pelle Snickars from the SLBA (National Media Archive Sweden) compares the actual situation of audiovisual archives to the first translation of the bible by Henry VIII. The distribution of the duplication of the text was taking place all over the Britain. But the bible was fixed in the place of worship by a chain for security reasons. Many of the audiovisual and media archives are placed in a similar situation. They keep their material on the shelves instead of making it accessible by new technologies. Through an architecture of participation and Chris Anderson’s long tale, Snickars argues that the age of mass media is transformed to the age of masses of media by the huge amount of media producers on the web. Improved access needs to be a guiding principle.
The Creative Archive launched by the British Film Institut (BFI) in 2005 aims to develop a digital portfolio and give a public value to the institution. The user can access material for free and create new clips by playing around with the moving images in order to re-contextualize them. It is not an economic model but more an educational one. Poppy Simpson from the BFI stresses that the future of access to archival material is a hybrid model with tired access or electronic guides. Functionality has to be developed to re-use the material in a more intensive manner.
Tobias Golodnoff from the Danish radio and television archive (Dansk Culturav) argues that the value of the archive is generated by its use. Making the material on-line available means giving it back to the public. The case study of the Danish archive shows how the public can participate and interact with the archive. The project Bonanza invited the public to participate in the preservation project by voting which audiovisual material should be digitized in a first phase. The Web 2.0 application gives the opportunity to the user to be an innovator and to develop on projects that are officially over but still on the internet.
In France the INA (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel) operates with a more commercial model that can be considered as a VOD platform. The archive proposes audiovisual material through the internet on a B2B or B2P model. The activity of on-line access is extremely costly and advertisement or sponsoring can help to develop the services. Once archives are online it’s not enough. There should be an added value to be found to maintain interest. We must adapt to how people use online video today. The challenge is to join with content the creation of new users experience. Roei Almit from INA thinks that there is not only one business model that will answer all our needs.
It is not enough to put the material on the web. The add of value and the contextualization of the user can help to keep the audiovisual data interesting.
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And so it almost begins .. we await three intensive days in which we will discuss the future of archives, legal issues concerning orphan works and so much more. Thanks to The Balie the main conference can be followed real-time at The Balie live stream. Our bloggers will cover the conference almost in realtime on this blog. What can we expect from the conference?
Thursday April 10 - Legal Seminar – Sound and Vision - Hilversum
A day dedicated to legal issues concerning digital heritage. Images for the Future will host the afternoon program of the Economies of the Commons Legal Seminar for legal experts, scholars and law students. Regarding the Images for the Future project the participants will work on the issue of orphan works and rights clearing. Venue for the seminar is the Sound and Vision building in Hilversum.
Friday April 11 - Economies of the Commons
The conference starts with a keynote of Peter Kaufman (Intelligent Television) followed by a panel about the changing role of National Archives. What are the challenges large-scale digitization and online services have to offer? With Pelle Snickars (SLBA), Richard Paterson (British Film Institute), Tobias Golodnoff (Dansk Culturarv), and Roei Amit (INA).
After the lunch we continue with the second session about Commons-based Peer Production. How do new developments of creative reuse hold out against market-based production? With Felix Stalder (Open Flows), Jamie King (Steal This Film), Jon Phillips (Creative Commons) en Sebastian Lütgert (oil21.org).
The afternoon ends with a session about the European Digital Library. With Paul Doorenbosch (KB - National Library of The Netherlands), Jill Cousins (Director European Digital Library), Sonja de Leeuw (Utrecht University/ case: Video Active), Georg Eckes (Deutsches Filminstitut / case: European Film Gateway).
Friday evening: Sustainable Images for the Future / 20.30h
The Friday night is dedicated to Images for the Future and the Commons. Edwin van Huis (Director General of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision) will provide the introduction about the largest digitization project in the Netherlands, Images for the Future. Rick Prelinger will continue to focus on the future of archives demonstrated by the case of the Prelinger Archives, a collection of 48.000 films of which a central selection has been added to the Library of Congress. David Bolier (www.onthecommons.org) speaks on the subject of value creation in open networks and how to link the Commons with government and industry. We end the session with a panel discussion with the speakers and Emjay Rechsteiner of the Dutch Filmmuseum about the Commons and Dutch audiovisual archives.
Saturday April 12 / 11.00 - 18.00h
Uncommon Business Models – 11.00h
In this session we will take on the subject of open business models. Two experts from related media industries that are arguably ahead of the curve will kick off the workshop. Jan Velterop, CEO of Knewco and one of the leading experts on Open Access, will give us an insight in the deployment of open business models in scientific publishing. Over the past couple of years Open Access has been able to provide a valid and sustainable alternative in this 7 billion dollar industry. Jonas Woods, Head of Music at the pioneering music company Last.fm, will pick up from there. In his presentation he will highlight how his company has successfully generated income streams in an industry that has shown to be particularly vulnerable in the open environment of the Internet. These examples will pave the way for an interesting discussion with panelists Peter Kaufman (Intelligent Television), Roei Amit (INA), Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Archives) and Eerde Hovinga (NIBG-tbc).
In the afternoon we focus on Intangible Heritage Resources in the (Non-) Western World. With Joost Smiers (Prof. em. Political Science of the Arts), Shubha Chaudhuri (ARCE), Anthony McCann (University of Ulster) Wim van Zanten (ICTM).
The last panel consists of Professional Cultural Producers. With Florian Schneider (Kein.tv), Kenneth Goldsmith (Ubuweb), Bauke Freiburg (Fabchannel / Culture Player), Chai Locher (NFTVM - tbc), Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Archives).
Enough said .. come back soon for notes, video’s, discussion and much more! Don’t forget to bookmark the site www.ecommons.eu for more detailed background, articles and related projects and documents.
Geert Wissink & Johan Oomen
Tags: archives, business models, Intellectual Property, library, television
This entry was posted by Geert Wissink
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The French “Institut National de l’Audiovisuel”(INA) has joined the Video Active project as an associate partner. By welcoming INA, Video Active will offer an even richer collection of television heritage on its portal, www.videoactive.eu.
INA is one of the largest audiovisual archives in the world. INA’s collections cover more than 60 years of radio and 50 years of television programs; more than 4 millions hours of radio and television. INA will sign a special contract becoming associate member to the project and agree upon providing a minimum number of assets to the portal, available for online viewing. The beta release of the portal can already be accessed online, the first public version will be launched at the end of April 2008.
Next to INA, the archives of VRT (Belgium) and Moving Image Communications (UK) already joined the project as associate partner at an earlier stage. The total number of Eurpean archives represented in the portal has now reached 14. Video Active encourages other content providers to join the project. Read the rest of this entry »
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ArtShare is a good example of how institutions can effectively work together to make their collections online available to a broad public. Share your cultural taste, make new friends and help the Brooklyn Museum work out their beta version.
The Brooklyn Museum is very busy finding new ways to bring greater visibility to their collection. Recently they started ArtShare. With ArtShare you can select works from the Brooklyn Museum collection to display at random on your Facebook profile, so your friends will see what kind of art you like. And because Facebook is all about sharing, you can also add your own artwork: “because social networking is about connecting and seeing what others contribute to the social fabric, anyone can also use ArtShare to upload their own work and share it with others”, says Shelly Bernstein, who started the project.
This not only enables me and you to upload work for others to show. Other institutions can also join ArtShare. And this has already happened very quickly. V&A added up some objects, complimenting the Brooklyn staff: “The Brooklyn did a great job with the application and then took it a step further by opening it up for other museums to add some of their collections to it as well as individual artists. This very collegiate attitude is hopefully going to spread across the sector with more data and technology sharing efforts in the future”, says Seb Chan from the Powerhouse Museum.
In their enthousiasm, they almost forgot the copyright question. They stopped uploading the contemporary collection and gave everybody a phonecall. If you take a look at the artworks now available, they did a great job. I now have a nice photo of Snoop Dogg, art proved on my Facebook!
If you are on Facebook, you can add ArtShare here.
Tags: collections, content, museum, socialnetworking, tools
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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). Some of the entries are in Dutch.
August 27th 2008
Kennisland (Knowledgeland) has put together an inventory of social tagging possibilities as an instrument in making photographic collections available. The analysis provides several points of reference by covering both national and international initiatives. Send us an e-mail (moo@kl.nl) if you like to receive the entire report as PDF (in Dutch).
1. EU investeert 120 miljoen in digitale bibliotheken
2. Cloudspeakers aggregeert legaal materiaal
3. Opening soon: a digital library for Europe
4. ICT-gebruik in musea: digitalisering nog in kinderschoenen
5. Olympische Spelen in Nederland (1928)
6. Media firms find that statistics on internet piracy can be rather useful
7. Alternative film site Raindance.tv raises € 600.000
8. Als het publiek de baas is
9. YouTube-bioscoop selecteert op kwaliteit
10. De virtuele cultuurbezoeker
June 17th 2008
1. ‘Als ik op het bord ga, gaat m’n hart sneller kloppen’
2. Trent Reznor’s Path To Accepting And Embracing New Business Models
3. Eerste cijfers aantal video streams: Q1 2008
4. Topman Microsoft: Papieren krant over 10 jaar verdwenen
5. iTunes opens 700-film UK film download store
6. New copyright agreement provides greater online access to film
7. Eerste onderwijsgame ter wereld als open educational resource
8. Auteursrecht en het recht op informatie verzoend
June 2nd 2008
‘Give It Away And Pray’ Isn’t A Business Model… But It Doesn’t Mean That ‘Free’ Doesn’t Work
Towards Open and Dynamic Archives
Librarians discuss how to store world’s data
New York Times opening APIs to developers: will it catch on in UK?
Microsoft to end Web search program for digitized books
KB wil 8 miljoen krantenpagina’s online zetten
Indie Films, Coming to a Small Screen Near You
Beeld en Geluid presenteert Pro Achive
Thinkbase is a visual navigation and exploration tool for Freebase
May 19th 2008
“Dit is beter dan YouTube”
Music Industry Gurus’ Five Point Plan to Save their Business
Gamers teach search engines how to see
Het jaarverslag van de Stichting DEN
Congress Report “Digital Heritage - Crosslinking together”
Nieuwe ‘persoonlijke’ online tv-gids van start
Vooral jongeren kijken online video’s
Teleblik ook komend schooljaar gratis
Je businessideeën crowdsourcen werkt!
May 2nd 2008
“Grand Theft Auto” simplifies song purchasing
Youtube’s wapen tegen copyright schending
Radiohead Pay-What-You-Want Album, A ‘One Off’
Mininova Heads Towards 5 Billion Downloads
GodTube.com haalt 30 miljoen op
Apple verliest op filmverkopen
Are you a European who watches mobile TV?
Hema komt met Rijksmuseum-items
BBC treedt toe tot OpenID Foundation
Widget Rijksmuseum geheel vernieuwd
April 21st 2008
Auteurswet moet veranderen voor digitale bibliotheek
Samenvatting eindrapportage DE BASIS – Vindbaarheid
Kinderen willen leren via games
Daily iPlayer requests pass half million
High-tech media finding new traction - Complete MIPTV coverage
German VOD market grows with ProSiebenSat.1-Disney deal
New European TV database should draw in film rights owners
Powerhouse Museum joins the Commons on Flickr - the what, why and how
Something Important Is On The Horizon In The Music Business
MySpace To Launch New Music Joint Venture With Big Labels
April 10th 2008
Web 2.0: de stand van zaken
UK landscape shifts as Warner moves to same-day VOD/DVD
Harnessing the knowledge of others through Wiki technology? ‘Your Archives’
Apple falls short of 1,000 movie rentals
Dear Hollywood Studios: Let My Video Go
OpenCollection
De BBC en het onderbuikgevoel bij UGC
Kennisnet omarmt ideeën TNO voor innovatie onderwijs
Ex-KGB video zoek-technology wint PLUGG startup prijs
Rapporten bibliotheekvernieuwing online
March 25th 2008
To be free, information has to be smart
Prijs van MP3 download afhankelijk van populariteit
Portal Beeldmateriaal Geesteswetenschappen
IPTV markt vorig jaar verdubbeld
Paramount in zee met Facebook
Helft Europeanen laat sociale netwerken links liggen
March 10th 2008
Google opens AdSense to web videos
Sharper focus needed on European cultural heritage
Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business
YouTube goes live to take on TV
Digitale kiosk biedt speelfilms
UK web users demand online distribution - but only for free
Eyespot Attacks LongTail of Video Ads and Mashup Content
BBC iPlayer comes to the iPhone
February 26th 2008
Entertainmentbedrijven spelen in op veranderende consumptie
Video-on-demand - Right here, right now
Open Television Network
Canadese songschrijvers willen downloadbelasting
BBC verkoopt programma’s via iTunes
Onderzoek Dialogic: “Wat doet en wil de breedbandgebruiker?”
European archives release vintage films online
Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) makes popular series available DRM-free via BitTorrent
January 28th 2008
BBC zendt uit op Myspace
BBC Three to start web simulcast
Library of Congress Photos on Flickr
Canon met onbekende filmbeelden
BOM-VL start met het digitaliseren van audiovisueel erfgoed in Vlaanderen
Nationaal Archief: Pilot Bronnenbox online
Pioneering research shows ‘Google Generation’ is a myth
Aboriginal archive offers new DRM
Met dank aan de downloaders
December 13th 2007
De nieuwste leerboeken staan online
European Digital Library Foundation welcomed by the Commissioner
Koninklijke Bibliotheek wil oude boeken kapot snijden
Nielsen in digitale watermerken
BT zoekt nieuwe bedrijfsmodellen digitale televisie
Catalogus Beeld en Geluid verbeterd en uitgebreid
Progress on license interoperability with Wikipedia
France leads crackdown to end illegal file sharing
Live web video: de nieuwe standaard voor webcommunicatie?
Digitisation contract between Boston Public Library and Internet Archive
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This entry was posted by Marcel Oosterwijk
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Images for the Future has a broader context – all over the world major digitisation projects are creating large-scale online heritage resources. The European Commission acknowledges the magnificent value these resources have if this wealth of material in Europe’s libraries, museums and (audiovisual) archives would be accessible to all.
Since a few years, the European Commission is supporting various initiatives that help realising this vision, dubbed ‘the European Digital Library’. These include research oriented projects such as MultiMatch, projects focussing on providing access such as Video Active and best practice networks on a specific topic, such as COMMUNIA. Knowledge exchange between projects is stimulated by coordination actions like CHORUS.
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Until now, these efforts did not result in one single access point to collections across different domains. The heterogeneous nature of heritage (covering different languages, held by different organisations with their own standards for digitisation and annotation etc.) is the major obstacle. To meet user demands and in order to provide the complete picture, the access point should therefore provide solutions that provide for syntactic, semantic and linguistic interoperability between collections and objects. Needless to say: this is an extremely complex task. Therefore, expectations are high for the EDLnet, the recently launched initiative that tries to overcome exactly these obstacles and create the envisioned single window to the collections and objects. The press release states:
“The project – the European Digital Library network (EDLnet) – runs for two years, and will develop a prototype that demonstrates proof of concept, bringing together content from some of Europe’s major cultural organisations.
The project will be run by The European Library together with the National Library of the Netherlands. The project will look at the political, human, technical and semantic issues that will contribute to the creation of an interoperable system able to access fully digitised content. It will invite feedback from different types of users in order to create a service that enriches the widest public and answers the needs of researchers, students, teachers and the creative industries.”
Through Sound and Vision, Images for the Future is well represented in this network and contributes actively the workpackages around which the activities are organised. Representatives of the Video Active project participate in the workpackages on User Requirements and Interoperability, whilst mr. Edwin van Huis (general director of Sound and Vision and president of the International Federation of Television Archives) has a seat in the Executive Board of the EDL Foundation, the body that has been established to govern the further development of the European Digital Library.
I will– after this introduction – continue to report on the developments within this exiting initiative. Already, trough portals like Video Active, Images for the Future is making sure that we fully comply with the standards defined by the EDL Net. The content we offer online will be a great addition to the collections of others, the real power is enclosed in the relations that can be created between objects from different organisations; contextualisation on a pan European scale in the making!
(Johan Oomen is policy advisor at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Contact: joomen[at]beeldengeluid.nl)
Tags: COMMUNIA, EDL, European Commission, European Digital Library, MultiMatch, Video Active
This entry was posted by Johan Oomen
on Monday, December 3rd, 2007 at 7:12 pm and is filed under Product development, Technology.
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Another Wikidia-style online encyclopedia has seen the light. But Freebase is something new. Its creator, the company Metaweb is setting out to create a vast public database intended to read by computers rather than people. Users still play an important rule in Freebase. They set the types of relations between pieces of information. People add metadata instead of data. In this way, information will be structured to make it possible for software to define relationships and even meaning. In the words of TechCrunch’ Micheal Arrington: This is cool unless its get consciousness and kills us all.
How does it work?
When logged in (registration is open for the public since november), you can add information on companies, movies, places, restaurants etc, just as in Wikipedia. But you not only enter the data, but also add the types of the information. For example, we choose to add a company to the database. When I entered Knowledgeland and told Freebase it’s a company, a new template with a lot of predefined structure came up, because Metaweb has defined a whole set of additional data that is typically associated with a company. I can choose to enter the empty fields such as employees. When I then click on the name of the employee, it’s relation with the company and it’s type is automatically established. Employees become persons, places become locations etc. And all these new topics come with their own predefined fields. Searching has become a lot more intuitive because you can use the same fields for narrowing down the results. A search string such as ‘show me all the companies in Amsterdam’ is done with two clicks.
Open for everyone
Freebase has already sucked in data from Wikipedia and other sources, and user can fill in their data too. Currently Freebase counts almost 3 million topics. More than 1200 relationships in the form of types have been established between these topics within 68 domains. Just as with Google, developers can extract information from Freebase and add it to their web applications. The information users add is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution License or Public Domain. Because the information is structured, other web applications can use Freebase to display its information in new ways.
Freebase is interesting not only for its collective intelligence. The workflow of entering metadata is highly intuitive and can function as a blueprint for crowdsourcing purposes. Archives don’t need to worry about the types of relations, users create them on the fly.
Perhaps Freebase marks the start of a new era in gathering information. Perhaps not. But one thing is sure: Freebase in potential the Google killer for harvesting collective intelligence.
Links
http://www.freebase.com/
Introduction to Freebase (screencast)
Related posts
- Freebase @ Techcrunch
- Tim O’Reilly about Freebase
Tags: crowdsourcing, database, innovation, technology
This entry was posted by Geert Wissink
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