Archipelproject: Legal research (Preserving our History in a Sustainable Digital Way series)

Archipel is a project based on the finding that a sustainable digital archive infrastructure is needed in Flanders in order to ensure a structural approach to the problem of digital archiving. The  project is also based on the fact that there is an important role for players from the world of arts, cultural and scientific heritage and education in the …

Toward the New Enlightenment – Film, Sound and the Promise of New Technology

This is the presentation given by Peter Kaufman (Intelligent Television) as the Opening Keynote of Screening the Future 2011. Over the past decade, television and film archivists, working with government funds, philanthropic support,and private partners, have been adding moving images and recorded sound to the searchable corpus of human knowledge online. That corpus now embraces billions of words, images, moving …

The National Archives Labs

The National Archives Labs is a new venture which aims to be a more interactive and engaging way for customers of the National Archives to influence the development of its innovations. Whether these are improvements to existing services or completely new ways of presenting the rich and varied information in the collection, the National Archives want to engage customers in …

Automatic Heritage Metadata Enrichment with Historic Events

Contents: 1. Introduction 2.Related Work 3. Data 4. Enriching Metadata with Events 5. Agora demonstrator: presenting the enriched collections 6. Future work References In deze paper voor de conferentie Museums and the Web 2011, lichten de onderzoekers van de VU Amsterdam en van het Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid toe, hoe een thesaurus met historische gebeurtenissen de beschrijvingen van …

A Framework for Distributing Scalable Content over Peer-to-Peer Networks

Contents: I. Introduction II. Related Work III. NextShare Integration IV. Producer-Site Architecture V. Consumer-Site Architecture VI. Evaluation VII. Future Work VIII. Conclusion This paper presents a framework for the distribution of scalable content in a fully distributed Peer-to-Peer network. The architectural description includes how the scalable layers of the content are mapped to the pieces distributed in the Peer-to-Peer system …