The workshop will present several issues related to the development of a sustainable service for digital multimedia archiving in Flanders: more specifically the research results of the project 'BOM-vl' (Preservation and access of multimedia data in Flanders, 2008-2009) (http://www.bom-vl.be) and the (future) project 'Archipel' (Network-centric approach to sustainable digital archives, 2010-2011). In these projects research is conducted into several aspects of digital multimedia archiving, and into strategic issues and challenges for the next years in the field of long term archiving and access of multimedia. This research is done by a consortium of university research groups (IBBT), private companies,  heritage institutions and cultural organizations, with the support of the Flemish Government.

 

The workshop is organized in collaboration between the IBBT (www.ibbt.be/en), Ghent University (www.ugent.be), The Flemish Theatre Institute (VTi) (www.vti.be), and FARO. Flemish interface centre for cultural heritage (www.faronet.be).

 

Program of the workshop:

-          Introduction

-          10.45 – 11.00: Towards an open and dynamic multimedia archive (Gert Nulens, IBBT-SMIT)

-          11.00 – 11.15: Selection for digitisation (Dries Moreels, VTi)

-          11.15 – 11.30: A cross-domain metadata model (Inge Van Nieuwerburgh, Ghent University and Sam Coppens, IBBT-MMLAB)

-          (BREAK)

-          11.45 – 12.00: The innovative platform (demonstration) (Brecht Vermeulen, IBBT)

-          12.00 – 12.15: Future developments: the project Archipel (Jeroen Walterus, FARO)

-          12.15 – 12.30: Panel (questions and answers)

 

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Jeroen Walterus (°1965) is senior collaborator in FARO, the Flemish interface

centre for cultural heritage. (http://www.faronet.be/en/organisatie). He has a

master degree in history and a phd in information and library science. In 1999,

after working for several years in the public and scientific library sector he

switched to the heritage sector. He first worked for the Flemish centre for popular

culture and since 2008 for FARO, Flemish interface centre for cultural heritage,

where he is involved in different programs in the domain of digital heritage and

heritage libraries. He is currently coordinating a research project that develops

tools and methods to monitor and analyze the cultural heritage domain in

Flanders.