Find, watch and listen to audiovisual content on the spot via the visitor tool

We’ve digitised a wealth of audio and video content together with our partners over recent years. But much of this content is still subject to copyright and privacy laws, which means it can’t be accessed without first obtaining the appropriate permissions. Fortunately, the law provides an exception for scientific and private research: you can view or listen to content stored in archives by visiting the managing institution’s premises.

And hetarchief.be cleverly capitalises on this. It gives organisations their own catalogue of audiovisual content stored at meemoo, so they can give their visitors access to look up and view clips for a limited time.

For content partners

As an organisation, you are in control of your own catalogue and can use licences to choose for yourself which items you make available. Users can make requests to view your content and you decide whether and for how long they can have access, so you can safely share unique items from your digital collection with your visitors and employees in a protected environment.

For researchers

Anyone conducting research into the past hundred years needs access to images and audio. Major events and day-to-day life alike have been recorded on film, records or cassettes. Together with our content partners, we want to make this content available in a lawful way.

Thanks to hetarchief.be, you can access the digital content from partners affiliated with meemoo at the location they are actually keeping it. A powerful search engine with intelligent filters ensures you can search the catalogue independently, and watch and listen to the clips you find in a user-friendly interface.

Part of a greater whole 

The visitor tool has been a feature on hetarchief.be since 2023, allowing you to search the metadata for the image and audio content that we preserve there for our partners. Now, with the provider’s permission, you can also gain access to this wealth of content where it’s actually being kept.

Alongside researchers, nostalgics, local historians, creators, professional re-users and enthusiasts of all kinds, hetarchief.be is now available to our content partners. As key users, they can explore other organisations’ audiovisual gems as well as their own content.

Why are we bringing different platforms together? We want to ensure the best possible user experience for everyone and create a single place where you can find, search, view and listen to all our partners’ content. It also makes it easier for us to keep up with new developments in the digital landscape.

What does the future hold? Now that hetarchief.be has been updated, the platform is ready to welcome even more types of content in the coming years. This will include newspapers to begin with, followed by photographic materials.