On Wednesday 25 October 2023, the Gecoördineerd Initiatief voor Vlaamse Erfgoeddigitalisering (‘Coordinated Initiative for Flemish Heritage Digitisation’ - GIVE, for short) took home the Digital Flanders Award for the most sustainable project – chosen in a vote during the Digital Flanders Day event. This is a significant recognition following two intensive years of close collaborations, technical AI innovations and countless hours of meticulous registering, digitising and sustainable archiving.
Jasper Van Gestal is an illustrator and tattoo artist from Turnhout. He took on the challenge to make new art, based on a 17th century manuscript. Fascinated by the natural world and the symbolism of everything around us, Van Gestel got inspired by the colourful illuminations in the Register of the brotherhood of Sint Rombout. The artist transformed some of the delicate animals and decorations from the register to his own, recognizable imagery. The result? A very contemporary fairy tale vibe.
The GIVE-project is a digitisation effort of impressive proportions: over 800.000 newspaper pages, masterpieces and glass plate photographs were digitised and sustainably preserved. With the help of artificial intelligence, over 130 collections with audio and video received more accurate descriptions, making them more searchable.
Impressive results, but the project also initiated intensive cooperation between heritage organisations, experts, technical professionals and more. In this article, we put the spotlight on the people behind the project. This time, we asked our 10 questions to Frederik De Kreyger, Archeologist – responsible for 3D scanning and visualization at Erfgo3D.
What would old photographs look like if you could just add a little colour? That’s the question that Pol Cosmo, the street artist from Ghent wanted to answer. Are there splashes of colour beneath the layers of grey, or did the world really look that pale and ashy?
The GIVE-project is a digitisation effort of impressive proportions: over 800.000 newspaper pages, masterpieces and glass plate photographs were digitised and sustainably preserved. With the help of artificial intelligence, over 130 collections with audio and video received more accurate descriptions, making them more searchable. Impressive results, but the project also initiated intensive cooperation between heritage organisations, experts, technical professionals and more.
In this article, we put the spotlight on the people behind the project. This time, we asked our 10 questions to Sophia Rochmes, project manager for newspaper digitisation at the Flanders Heritage Library.
From unbiased toddlers to critical art students, dozens of students unleashed their creativity on the digitized art in the GIVE-project. Drawing away, cutting, pasting, painting, printing and colouring. The result? Elated children, inspired youngsters, driven teachers and lot of small, surprising works of art.
Oh boy, we’re proud! The GIVE-project has won awards for the second time this year. On thursday the 7th of december meemoo, Flemish institute for the archive, won no less than two Agoria awards! The Coordinated Initiative for Flemish Heritage Digitisation (GIVE) was chosen as the most innovative project. And as a cherry on top, it also won the prestigious award for best eGov project. It’s a beautiful way to finish up two years of collaboration, digitisation, metadata enrichment and a lot more.
The GIVE-project is a digitisation effort of impressive proportions: over 800.000 newspaper pages, masterpieces and glass plate photographs were digitised and sustainably preserved. With the help of artificial intelligence, over 130 collections with audio and video received more accurate descriptions, making them more searchable. Impressive results, but the project also initiated intensive cooperation between heritage organisations, experts, technical professionals and more.
In this article, we put the spotlight on the people behind the project. This time, we asked our 10 questions to Matti Pen, Preservation and management officer at the Heritage Library KADOC-KU Leuven
The GIVE-project is a digitisation effort of impressive proportions: over 800.000 newspaper pages, masterpieces and glass plate photographs were digitised and sustainably preserved. With the help of artificial intelligence, over 130 collections with audio and video received more accurate descriptions, making them more searchable. Impressive results, but the project also initiated intensive cooperation between heritage organisations, experts, technical professionals and more.
In this article, we put the spotlight on the people behind the project. This time, we asked our 10 questions to Lobke Vanden Eynden, Project leader digitisation and digital influx at meemoo.
The GIVE-project is a digitisation effort of impressive proportions: over 800.000 newspaper pages, masterpieces and glass plate photographs were digitised and sustainably preserved. With the help of artificial intelligence, over 130 collections with audio and video received more accurate descriptions, making them more searchable. Impressive results, but the project also initiated intensive cooperation between heritage organisations, experts, technical professionals and more.
In this article, we put the spotlight on the people behind the project. This time, we asked our 10 questions to Willy Van de Vijver, archivist at Mechelen City Archives.