Continuous Access To Cultural Heritage
Uitslag toekenningen CATCH
23 juni 2005
Het Gebiedsbestuur Exacte Wetenschappen heeft op 22 juni het besluit genomen over de subsidieaanvragen ingediend binnen het onderzoeksprogramma CATCH. Een viertal voorstellen is succesvol door het selectieproces gekomen: Choral, MuNCH, MuSeUM en WITCHCRAFT.Toekenningen geordend op alfabetische volgorde:
Access to oral history (Choral)CHoral aims at the development of spoken document retrieval technology for the disclosure of oral history collections. With speech recognition transcriptions can be generated for spoken documents (audio and video). The transcripts have timestamps associated with the words and will be used to build an index that allows searching the audio files at fragment level. This project aims to contribute to the advent of methodological framework for handling and use of multimedia oral history content for historical research.
Choral is a project of the University of Twente, the Municipal Archives Rotterdam, the Erasmus University Rotterdam and Radio Rijnmond. Projectleader is prof. dr. F.M.G. de Jong.
Multimedia aNalysis for Cultural Heritage (MuNCH)MuNCH focuses on knowledge enrichment by means of automated analyses of digital images and video. With the advent of digital communication, we live in the exciting times of broad and narrow casting through the Internet, of passive and active viewers, of direct or delayed broadcast, and of digital pictures being delivered in the museum or at home. At the same time, the picture and television archives turn digital. In these demanding times, the archives are likely to be swamped with information requests unless they swiftly adapt to partially automatic annotation and digital retrieval. The aim of this project is to provide faster and more complete access to pictures in cultural archives through digital analysis.
MuNCH is a project of the University of Amsterd am, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and the association Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland. Projectleader is prof. dr. ir. A.W.M. Smeulders.
Multiple-collection Searching Using Metadata (MuSeUM)MuSeUM addresses the prototypical problem of a cultural heritage institute with the ambition to disclose all of its content in a single, unified system. Institutes use various systems, each dealing with a small part of the collection, constructed for different purposes, in different times, by different people, working in different traditions, based on different design principles, with different access methods, etcetera. This project will investigate theoretically transparent ways of combining modern information retrieval methods based on statistical language modeling with varying amounts of metadata and non-content features.
MuSEUM is a project of the University of Amsterdam, the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie and the Municipal Archives Ro tterdam. Projectleader is dr. ir. J. Kamps.
What Is Topical in Cultural Heritage: Content-based Retrieval Among Folksong Tunes (WITCHCRAFT)
The WITCHCRAFT project sets as its objective to develop a fully-functional content-based retrieval system for large amounts of melodies stored as audio and notation, building on the best practices of Music Information Retrieval research. The project can have an impact on MIR research by providing insight into the modeling of high-level musical features, by setting a standard to compare future systems against, and by creating tools, data and evaluation methods that can be used in other MIR research projects.
WITCHCRAFT is a project of the Utrecht University, the Meertens Instituut and the Theater Instituut Nederland. Projectleader is dr. F. Wiering.