Johan Oomen
Johan Oomen MA is project-manager of research and development projects at The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision since 2000. He is mainly working on externally funded R&D projects and managing the in-house deployment of Digital Asset Management technology.
R&D projects include:
2007 - Project Manager (Sound and Vision part of) FP6 project VIDI-Video
2006 - Technical Project manager eContentplus project Video Active
2006 - Project Manager (Sound and Vision part of) FP6 project P2P-FUSION
2006 - Project Manager (Sound and Vision part of) FP6 project MultiMATCH
Also, he part of the research groups of CHOICE, MUNCH and MultimediaN.
He has also worked for the British Universities Film and Video Council and the Holland Media Group. He holds a BA in Information Science and an MA in Film and Television studies. He worked on various EC funded projects in the 5th Framework and the eContentPlus programme of the EU, including VICAR (Video Indexing Classification Annotation Retrieval); ECHO (European Chronicles Online), AMICITIA (Asset Management Integration of Cultural heritage In The Inter-exchange between Archives) and BIRTH.
Since 2001, he has been a member of the "Webstroom", the working group funded by the Dutch SURF Organisation on the use of streaming media in higher education, editor of its website and member of the steering group. Also, he is affiliated with the International DIVERSE network on the same topic and member of the conference committee of the annual DIVERSE Conference. His book "Internet en het Nieuwe Leren: de toepassing van streaming media" was published in 2003.
He has been involved in the organisation of * The DIVERSE conference 2004 * Strategies for a European area of digital cultural resources Conference 2004 * European Television History Network conference 2005 * Workshop on Ontology-Driven Interoperability for Cultural Heritage Objects 2007 * Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) 2007 * Sustainable public audiovisuel archives / economies of the commons 2007
Contact
Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
Media Park Sumatralaan 45 Postbus 1060 1200 BB Hilversum
e: joomen {at} beeldengeluid.nl
t: 035- 677 3434