http://www.openimages.eu/blog An Open Content Video Platform under Development Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:05:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Polygoon newsreels were shown in Dutch theatres from the 1920’s onwards. Subjects of the daily life in the Netherlands supported with compelling visuals were central to its (nowadays) typical format. To keep the audience interested Polygoon had to renew itself throughout the years. The latest inventions on communication, technology and ... http://www.openimages.eu/blog/2010/04/27/remarkable-technologies-and-innovations/ Sound and Vision has been preserving, digitalizing and opening up Dutch audiovisual heritage together with 5 other institutions since 2007 for the Images for the Future project. In 2010 the central theme for Images for the Future will be Indonesia. Therefore almost 50 items with this theme from the Polygoon ... http://www.openimages.eu/blog/2010/03/24/indonesia-on-open-images/ The first selection of audiovisual material for Open Images is now completely available online! The 469 items that can now be found on Open Images are mostly from the Polygoon Dutch News collection and some from the RVD collection. The current selection is mainly centered around a number of themes, ... http://www.openimages.eu/blog/2009/11/18/first-selection-of-audiovisual-material-on-open-images-now-completely-available/ Yesterday was the kick-off for the StrangerFestival 2009 in Amsterdam. During this festival young filmmakers are invited to participate in workshops to improve their skills and produce a movie in only three days. Open Images is very proud to be the starting point for one of these workshops! Under the ... http://www.openimages.eu/blog/2009/10/14/workshop-at-strangerfestival-2009/ On September the 15th Open Images will be presented as a case study and launched as a public beta during the Europeana Plenary 2009 meeting in The Hague: Europeana is about ideas and inspiration. Europeana plenary 2009 "Creation, Collaboration & Copyright" will bring ideas and inspiration to the next level – ... http://www.openimages.eu/blog/2009/09/14/europeana-plenary-conference/ FLOSS Manuals is a great initiative that creates, maintains and gives access to a collection of manuals that explain how to install and use a range of free and open source software. The manuals are friendly and simple, and they are intended to encourage people to explore the wide range ... http://www.openimages.eu/blog/2009/07/23/floss-manuals-ogg-theora-book-sprint/ The first Open Video Conference was held at NYU Law School on June 19-20. Eminent speakers and practitioners shared their thoughts on the emerging open video movement. The impressive line-up included: Matt Mason (author of The Pirate’s Dilemma), Yochai Benkler and Jonathan Zittrain (both Harvard Law School), Xeni Jardin (Boing ... http://www.openimages.eu/blog/2009/07/14/open-video-conference-report/ Today we’ll give an exclusive preview of the Open Images platform at the exiting Open Video Conference in New York City. This preview is part of the Birds of a Feather session on Audiovisual Archives we are co-hosting. Read more about this session here. Other interesting cases presented during the session ... http://www.openimages.eu/blog/2009/06/20/exclusive-preview-at-the-open-video-conference/ In March we started the development of Open Images. The first task at hand was drafting the Functional Design for our open media platform together with our MMBase developer André van Toly, d+g design. We finished this first phase in the development in April. Since Open Images is an open ... http://www.openimages.eu/blog/2009/05/22/open-images-functional-design/ ** Submission deadline: March 19 ** The Open Video Alliance is now accepting proposals for panels, workshop sessions, demo sessions, and other programming for the inaugural Open Video Conference in New York. Join us and over 400 participants during our groundbreaking two-day conference and make your imprint on the online video space. Visit http://openvideoalliance.org/proposals/ ... http://www.openimages.eu/blog/2009/03/02/open-video-conference-call-for-proposals/