Publications

On the website News of the Great War, a meemoo initiative, you can find more than 50.000 digitised newspapers from the First World War. Meemoo is continuously working on the accessibility of this digital archive. This blog describes how we enable researchers to carry out large scale and semi-automatic searches in this archive by applying Linked Data.

In 2013, meemoo chose MXF as a container and JPEG2000 as an encoding for our archive masters, together with content partners from the heritage sector. The technological development of audiovisual codecs does not stand still and the development and possible standardisation of FFv1 and MKV are interesting evolutions. In this blogpost we explain the results of an exploratory study about MKV and FFv1 which meemoo carried out in the margins of the Preforma project together with Packed vzw and Media Area.

Statistics and notes on the reformatting of jpeg2000/mxf files to other preservation and access formats in the meemoo archive.

In this report, we look back on the digitisation of the audio CD-R carriers. This digitisation, part of meemoo's second digitisation round, was completed in September 2015. This report is available in dutch only.

In December 2016, the digitisation of this second carrier, part of meemoo's first digitisation wave, was completes. This report is available in dutch only.

This dossier is about the tender for the digitisation of 1/2-inch, 1-inch and 2-inch audio tapes, Laserdisc, Video2000, D-2 and D-3 video cassettes, 1/4-inch video tape, CD-video, video-CD, Video8, Hi8 and Digital 8, Steno-Cassette, minicassette and microcassette, MiniDisc and Digital Audio Tapes. We launched this tender in 2017.

In this report we look back on the digitisation of VCR-cassettes. Late 2016, the digitisation of this carrier, part of meemoo's second digitisation wave, was finalised. This report is available in dutch only.

In this report, we look back on the digitisation of the audio cassettes. At the end of February 2016, this digitisation was completed as part of meemoo's first digitisation wave. This report is available in dutch only.

In this report we look back on the digitisation of the wire recordings. The digitisation of this carrier, part of meemoo's second digitisation wave, was finalized in the summer of 2016. This report is available in dutch only.

This dossier is about the tender for the digitisation of VHS cassettes. We launched this tender in 2016.

The digitisation of this carrier, part of meemoo's second digitisation wave, was finalized in the summer of 2016. This report is available in dutch only.

This dossier is about the second tender for the digitisation of damaged films. We launched this tender in 2016.

This dossier is about the tender for the digitisation of shellac and acetate records. We launched this tender in 2016.

Meemoo was a partner in this project, which is a follow-up to the feasibility study ‘Depositing digital publications from Flanders’ in 2014.

In this report, we look back on the digitisation of the Betamax cassettes. This digitisation, part of meemoo's second digitisation round, was completed in July 2015. This report is available in dutch only.