The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Dutch: Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, or short, Beeld en Geluid) is the cultural archive and a museum located in

Hilversum Hilversum () is a city and municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. Located in the heart of the Gooi, it is the largest urban centre in that area. It is surrounded by heathland, woods, meadows, lakes, and smaller towns. Hilvers ...

. The Institute for Sound and Vision collects, looks after, and provides access to over 70% of the Dutch audio-visual heritage. In total, the collection of more than 750,000 hours of elevision, radio, music and film that began in 1898 and continues to grow daily, makes Sound and Vision one of the largest audiovisual [archive]s in Europe. It was founded in 1997 as the Netherlands Audiovisual Archive (Dutch: ''Nederlands Audiovisueel Archief'' (NAA)), and adopted its current name in 2002. Sound and Vision is the business archive of the national

broadcasting Broadcasting is the distribution (business), distribution of sound, audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic medium (communication), mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio ...

corporations, a cultural heritage institute (providing access to students and the general public) and also a museum for its visitors. The

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production workflow and massive

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efforts break grounds for new services. Sound and Vision is an experienced partner in European funded research projects. These include, or have included: P2P-Fusion, MultiMatch, PrestoSpace, VIDI-Video,

LiWA Living Web Archives (Research Project) Liwa may refer to: Places ; Chad *Liwa (sub-prefecture) in Mamdi Department ; Indonesia *Liwa, Indonesia ; Oman * Liwa, Oman, place in Oman, area around Sohar University *Liwa Province, Oman (wilayah) ; Poland * Liwa, Warmian-Masurian Voivodesh ...

Communia COMMUNIA is a thematic project funded by the European Commission within the eContentplus framework addressing theoretical analysis and strategic policy discussion of existing and emerging issues concerning the public domain in the digital environme ...

Video Active (European Research Project) Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) syst ...

and the streaming

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Radio Garden, which gives listeners access to radio stations worldwide, perhaps their best known research project.

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* Media museums in the Netherlands Museums in North Holland Museums established in 1997 1997 establishments in the Netherlands Television archives Sound archives Film archives in Europe {{netherlands-stub

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