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Beelden voor de Toekomst
Digitising Audio-Visual Heritage
A small part of the last century's movies, documentaries, and radio and TV programmes stored in the Netherlands is unusable within five years.
The majority faces deterioration in 30 years - including the Dutch entries for the Eurovision Song Contest, and other more important historical material. The project Beelden voor de Toekomst ('Images for the Future') secures the audio-visual heritage of the 20th century for the future. Over the next seven years, 137,200 hours of video, 22,510 hours of film, 123,900 hours of audio, and 2.9 million photos will be restored, conserved, digitised, and made accessible by means of various services.
The digitised material will be made accessible for education, the creative industries, and a general audience. The focus in the coming years is directed towards developing services for educational purposes and stimulating users to become involved. Six parties are working together on Beelden voor de Toekomst: the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, the Netherlands Filmmuseum Foundation, the National Archive, Centrale Discotheek Rotterdam, the Association of Public Libraries, and Knowledgeland. It is a huge project, with a budget of ?179 million for the seven years.
With Beelden voor de Toekomst, the Netherlands is putting itself on the international map: the project is one of the largest in Europe concerning digitisation of audio-visual heritage.
The knowledge acquired will greatly contribute to the Dutch knowledge-based economy. Restoring and digitising such large quantities of material is highly specialised work, which is being undertaken by a number of Dutch companies. Industry thus benefits from the new accessibility of the audio-visual heritage material.
Thanks to digitisation, advertising agencies and film producers can access material quickly and reuse it for new services. A part of the project is also considering innovative ways of offering the material in the most useful fashion for teachers and students, so that schoolchildren can use it for online presentations, for example, and teachers can together set up a bank of lesson plans.
Media companies and technical partners are working together to develop the necessary online tools. With Beelden voor de Toekomst, the participating archives are making a great step towards the online heritage of the future.