Continuous Access to Cultural Heritage (CATCH)
In the CATCH programme, IT researchers and heritage managers work together on making heritage available digitally. The programme encourages collaboration, innovation and the transfer of knowledge. CATCH stands for Continuous Access to Cultural Heritage. The aim of the programme is to make the collections of museums, archives and historical associations, for example, more accessible. Furthermore, the newly developed instruments should enable heritage mangers to do their work more efficiently.
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Purpose and objectives
In the Continuous Access to Cultural Heritage (CATCH) programme, researchers from the physical sciences and cultural heritage managers work together on innovative methods for the management of heritage and on new ways of making collections accessible.
The themes of the first rounds of the programme were:
- semantic operability through the use of meta-data
- improved knowledge through automated analyses
- personalisation through presentation
The 2008 round placed more emphasis on the humanities. The projects that arose from this are connected to the humanities, IT and cultural heritage within the themes of:
- interoperability of large-scale and distributed sources
- visualisation and simulation
- historical dimensions and modern interpretations
Research, implementation and support are the principles of the research projects. Some examples:
- a profile generator with which a museum visitor learns to recognise his tastes in relation to the collection and then uses that profile to receive personalised tours and services
- automatic keyword suggestions to support documentation specialists when describing audiovisual materials
- making audio archives searchable using speech recognition
- analysing archaeological discoveries using automatic image recognition and comparison
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Budget and lead time
Runs to 2014
CATCH started in 2004 and runs to 2014.
New funding round uncertain
It is not certain whether a new funding round will occur.
NWO and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science have made 9 million euros available. The participating cultural heritage institutions contribute 2.8 million euros.
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Partners
IT researchers and cultural heritage managers
The research teams consist of a PhD student, a postdoc and an IT programmer. The research is conducted in cultural heritage institutions including the Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Naturalis and the Gemeente Museum Den Haag. Eighteen research projects will be realised.
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Programme management
What happens after NWO has awarded your research proposal? We will take you through the various steps of the project phases: from the start of the project, through its duration and completion.
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Events
CATCH Meetings
Regularly, CATCH organises meetings for the researchers involved in the programme.
Date: 28 januari 2016
Time: 9:00 – 17:30
Location: Cobbenhagen gebouw, Universiteit TilburgCATCH Event ‘Digital Cross-over in humanities’
6 June 2014
Amsterdam, The RijksmuseumCATCH meeting FACT
13 December 2013
Amsterdam, Meertens InstituteCATCH meeting MISS
4 Oktober 2013
Den Bosch, BHICCATCH meeting COGITCH
28 June 2013
Utrecht, University MuseumCATCH meeting WebART
Presentations
19 April 2013
The Hague, Koninklijke bibliotheekCATCH Midterm Event: CATCH in Context
14 December 2012
Leiden, Museum Volkenkunde
PresentationsCatch meeting BRIDGE
22 June 2012
Hilversum, Het Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en GeluidCATCH meeting at SEALINCmedia
11 May 2012
Delft, Museum Lambert van MeertenCATCH Meeting HiTiME: e-History
1 November 2011
Amsterdam, International Institute of Social History (IISG)User Involvement in Linked Cultural Data Symposium
7 February 2011
Amsterdam, Vrije UniversiteitLINKS - Reconstructing Historical Families
26 November 2010
Amsterdam, International Institute of Social History (IISG)Matchmaking en CATCH meeting at BRIDGE - Finding, Linking and Organizing Sources for Media Research
22 October 2010
Rotterdam, museum Boijmans Van BeuningenANGORA - "Digital Cultural Heritage Goes Social"
11 June 2010
Amsterdam Hystorisch MuseumMuSEUM - Museum 2.0
20 February 2009
Gemeentemuseum Den HaagMITCH - Catch meeting
21 November 2008
Naturalis LeidenMuNCH - Catch meeting
27 June 2008
Museum voor Beeld en GeluidCATCH Meeting Interoperability
29 February 2008
Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN)WITCHCRAFT - Catch meeting
27 April 2007
Meertens InstituutCHOICE - Television archives and the semantic web
9 February 2007
Museum voor Beeld en GeluidCatch Meeting
3 February 2006
Amersfoort, Rijksdienst voor Oudheidkundig BodemonderzoekAccessing Cultural Heritage Collection using Semantic Web Techniques
25 November 2005
Den Haag, Auditorium of de Koninklijke Bibliotheek