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Stichting Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid. [Beeld en Geluid] The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Stichting Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid - NISV) maintains and provides access to 70 per cent of the Dutch audio-visual heritage, comprising approximately 700,000 hours of television, radio, music and film, making NISV one of the largest audiovisual archives in Europe. NISV is the business archive of the national broadcasting corporations as well as a cultural heritage institute aiming to reach out to a wide user audience. NISV has brought thousands of hours of archive footage on-line for educational use and also operates a facility for the general public, the Media Experience, that welcomes 200,000 visitors annually. In 2007, the seven-year Images for the Future programme was launched. The project, funded with a budget of €154 million from the FES Fund, conserve and digitise 17,500 hours of film, 124,000 hours of audio, 137.000 hours of video and 1.2 million photos. NISV has a strong R&D department that is doing projects on archive disclosure and access related themes such as technology aided manual annotation (enhance manual annotation process by e.g., automatic thesaurus terms suggestion, contextualisation), automatic annotation strategies (speech analysis, visual analysis), internet archiving (for contextualisation, AV web archiving), Open Access, user requirements, and visualization/interaction (narratives, storytelling, mobile, etc.). Beeld en Geluid has been involved in EU research projects for over ten years. Recent projects include PrestoPRIME (FP7), CoSyne (FP7) LiWA (FP7), Vidi-Video (FP6), EUscreen (eContentplus), COMMUNIA (eContentplus), ECLAP (ICT-PSP). NISV is an experienced partner in National and European research projects and active in the following international organisations: FIAT/IFTA, EBU and UNESCO. In Ev2 the Institute will lead the Task Innovative Applications, as part of WP7. Key Personnel:

Stichting Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid. The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Stichting Nederlands Instituut Voor Beeld en Geluid) maintains and provides access to 70 per cent of the Dutch audio‐visual heritage, comprising approximately 700,000 hours of television, radio, music and film, making Beeld En Geluid one of the largest audiovisual archives in Europe. Beeld En Geluid is the business archive of the national broadcasting corporations as well as a cultural heritage institute. Beeld En Geluid has brought thousands of hours of archive footage on‐line for educational use and also operates a facility for the general public, the Media Experience, which is visited by 200,000 people annually. Beeld En Geluid is an experienced partner in national and European research projects and active in the international organisations FIAT/IFTA, IASA, EBU and UNESCO. Recent research projects include AXES, LiWA, PrestoPRIME, EUScreen, MultiMatch, VidiVIDEO and COMMUNIA. Beeld En Geluid has a strong R&D department with projects on archive disclosure and access related themes such as technology aided manual annotation, automatic annotation strategies, Internet archiving, contextualisation and user requirements. Within Europeana Awareness, Beeld En Geluid is leading WP2 on user engagement. Xxxxx Xxxxx is head of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision R&D Department and researcher at the Web and Media group of the VU University Amsterdam. He is mainly working on externally (FP7, ICT‐ PSP, CATCH) funded research projects that focus on providing access to digital heritage on the web. Oomen holds an MA in Media Studies. He has worked for the British Universities Film and Video Council and the RTL Nederland. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx is manager R&D at NSIV and researcher in Speech & Language Technology and Multimedia Retrieval at the University of Twente (PhD 2003). He is co‐founder of XMI (Cross Media Interaction), a company that provides services for automatic, speech‐based annotation of audio data. He has been working on a number of national and international projects in the area of multimedia retrieval and speech and language technology.