National Archives

The National Archives are the largest public archive institution in the Netherlands. It is the home of almost a thousand years of Dutch national history, which is stored in 137 kilometers of documents, 800 terabytes of digital files, 15 million photos and 300,000 maps and drawings.

Together with the National Archives, we were part of the large digitisation project Images for the Future, in which a large amount of the Dutch audiovisual heritage was preserved for the future. In the context of this project, for example, we explored the possibilities of social tagging and public participation by placing some of the photos owned by the National Archive on Flickr the Commons.