DIGITISATION COMPETENCE CENTRE 
FORM FOR NOMINATION

This is the form for the nomination of a competence centre in digitisation.
Please, send a form for each different competence centre.
Each competence centre can be “nominated” for more than one area.

Send the form/forms to the attention of Maria Teresa Natale by e-mail to minerva2@beniculturali.it or by fax to +390667232499.

The form will be submitted to the National representative for approval.

English must be used.

NAME AND ACRONYM OF THE COMPETENCE CENTRE:

The Radio-TV Archives of the RTBF

URL: www.rtbf.be 
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AREAS for nominations of the 'competence centre' 

•	Consulting, collection management, metadata ontology
•	Digitisation of art objects
•	Digitisation of books
•	Digitisation of film
•	Digitisation of manuscripts
•	Digitisation of museum collections
•	Digitisation of newspapers
•	Digitisation of photographic objects
•	Digitisation of public archives
•	Digitisation of sound
X	Digitisation of TV and radio
•	Multimedia
•	3D-environment
•	Virtual exhibitions
•	Other _____________________________________ (please, specify)

RESPONSIBLE BODY AND/OR ANY SPECIFIC 
CO-ORDINATING BODY/MECHANISM/INSTITUTION

Name of the institution: RTBF

English name of the institution: Belgian French-Speaking Public Broadcasting Company

Acronym of the institution: RTBF

Mailing address: 52, Boulevard Reyers, 1044 Bruxelles

Country: Belgium

Tel.: +32 2 737 21 11

Fax:.......................................................................................................

e-mail: info@rtbf.be

URL: www.rtbf.be

Type of institution:  National		 Governmental		 Regional
            X Other   Specify .Community

Sector:  Archive   Library  Museum  Foundation  
            X Other   Specify Radio TV

Legal status: X Public   Private    No profit

Description of the institution (max 200 characters):

The RTBF holds some 100.000 hours of programming: exclusive news coverage, in-depth reportage, historical broadcasts, “Inédits” compiled from material shot by amateur filmmakers, cultural and scientific magazines, music and entertainment…

CONTACT PERSON OF THE COMPETENCE CENTRE

Name: Gossens Surname: Alain

Gender:   X M	 F

Title: Archives Manager

Institution: RTBF

Mailing address: 52, Boulevard Reyers, 1044 Bruxelles

Country: Belgium

Tel.: +32 2 737 24 53

Fax: +32 2 737 22 79

e-mail: ags@rtbf.be

Contact languages: French, English

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE COMPETENCE CENTRE DOES

The main features for what you consider the institution a 'competence centre', with respect to the selected areas ((max 200 characters for each area):

With using time elasping, Radio and TV broadcasts of RTBF are verified (mechanical restoration) and migrated to mechanical supports, this process begun in 1996. Today, that represents some 20.000 hours over a heritage of 200.000 hours. The hope is to go out of this “on demand” digitalisation logic and to enter a systematic digitalisation of their audio-visual heritage.

I agree this information may be published on Minerva Knowledge Base: http://www.minervaeurope.org

X Yes  No

Signature: _____________________

Name: Alain Gossens

e-mail: ags@rtbf.be