CLARIAH Media Suite: Enabling Scholarly Research for Audiovisual and Mixed Media Data Sets in a Sustainable, Distributed Infrastructure

Abstract

The Media Suite is one of the components of the Dutch research infrastructure CLARIAH , which aims to serve the needs of media scholars, or digital humanists in general, by providing access to large audiovisual collections, that are distributed across various content providers, and their contextual data. The goal is to provide a user-friendly infrastructure, with applications to work with that data in a variety of scholarly projects. This infrastructure consists of multiple data sets and tools, it is accessible via a web-portal and is tailored to the needs of specific scholarly uses. It serves the needs for working with audiovisual data collections and related mixed-media contextual sources that are maintained by cultural heritage institutions and knowledge institutions such as The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, EYE Film Institute of the Netherlands and the National Library of The Netherlands (KB).