OpenFieldExplore digital media research fellowships, audiovisual AI archival grants, and media history internships at Sound and Vision in Hilversum.
Located in the iconic stained-glass building at the Media Park in Hilversum with an additional museum site in The Hague, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid) is Europe's largest audiovisual media archive. It functions as an accredited national research institute and university consortium partner, steward to over one million hours of television, radio, music, and digital games, and a pioneer in AI-assisted media archiving, news literacy, and digital cultural analytics.
Six-month funded fellowship at the Hilversum Media Park analyzing longitudinal political debates, public broadcasting evolution, or digital culture.
Four-year cooperative doctoral position with University of Amsterdam (UvA) developing multimodal transformers to index historical broadcast archives.
Six-month technical internship in Hilversum developing emulation environments, disc imaging, and oral history documentation for Dutch video game heritage.
Twelve-month grant at the The Hague Media Museum evaluating automated deepfake detection algorithms and civic media literacy tools.
Nine-month project capturing oral histories of immigrant radio broadcasters, sound engineers, and underground pirate radio stations in the Netherlands.
Four-month data science internship benchmarking open-source Whisper and Kaldi speech recognition models against historical regional Dutch dialects.
Four-day intensive professional workshop for international broadcasters on Wikidata integration, Linked Open Data (LOD), and automated visual tagging.
General Director of Sound and Vision & Media Innovation Leader
General Director of Sound and Vision, stewarding the modernization of the national audiovisual archives, spearheading the Museum in The Hague, and promoting nationwide media literacy.
Topics: Digital Cultural Heritage, Media Literacy Governance, Public Broadcasting Preservation
View researcher profile ↗Head of Research and Heritage & Professor of Digital Humanities
Pioneering digital humanities researcher leading international consortia (CLARIAH, Europeana) in applying automated speech recognition, computer vision, and semantic web models to cultural heritage.
Topics: Audiovisual Archival AI, Linked Open Data, Crowdsourced Heritage
View researcher profile ↗Senior Research Fellow & Assistant Professor in Media Studies
Media scholar investigating European television history, transmedia narrative structures, and innovative methodology for user engagement with digital broadcast repositories.
Topics: Television History, Multiplatform Storytelling, Comparative Digital Media Archiving
View researcher profile ↗All listings are compiled from official university sources and reviewed under OpenField editorial standards. Program availability, scholarship quotas, and entry requirements are subject to university revisions. Applicants should confirm all deadlines with Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision's official admissions office.
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