Open Images: Towards an Audiovisual Commons
Open Images (www.openimages.eu) is an open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material from various sources to stimulate -creative- reuse. Footage from audiovisual collections can be downloaded and remixed into new works. Users also have the opportunity to add their own material to the Open Images and thus expand the collection. Open Images provides an API (http://www.openimages.eu/api), making it easy for third parties to develop mashups. The platform currently (April 2011) offers access to over 1.400 items from various sources, including a considerable number of newsreels from the collection of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. This amount will grow substantially over the coming years as new items will be uploaded continuously, and as new partners join the initiative.
by Maarten Brinkerink on July 1st at 12:00 in Workshop I
Maarten Brinkerink works as a project manager at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision R&D department. He holds an MA in New Media and Digital Culture and specializes in the distribution of cultural content using digital media. At Sound and Vision, Maarten manages innovative projects like Open Images (an open media platform), Oorlogsmonumenten in Beeld (a location-based iPhone app that enriches war monuments with audiovisual heritage) and Waisda? (a multiple award winning crowdsourcing game for collecting metadata for audiovisual content). Within COMMUNIA the European thematic network on the Digital Public Domain he led the working group on Memory Institutions (museums, libraries and archives). In his spare time Maarten is a board member of the Dutch Wikimedia Chapter , where he coordinates collaborations with GLAM-institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums).
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