Launched on October 3, 2024, data.ina.fr is a public platform developed by INA (French national audiovisual institute) to unlock the value of audiovisual archives by transforming them into long-term, interpretable data about the media treatment of global current affairs. Data.ina.fr proposes a new way of making sense of media archives by revealing trends, structures, and evolutions across time.

The project is grounded in two core ambitions. First, to create a tool for long‑term objectification of information by using audiovisual archives beyond their mere documentary value. Second, to promote AI literacy among the general public through educational infographics explaining how these tools work, full transparency about how data is produced and processed and by alert texts on detected AI hallucinations.

Developed collaboratively, data.ina.fr combines INA’s editorial expertise, its strong data and technological skills and reliable AI-powered media analysis. The platform is designed for a broad audience: journalists, researchers, students, educators, and citizens. It allows users to explore more than one million hours of analysed archives through clear indicators, comparable time series, and transparent methodological explanations. Each graphic is accompanied by pedagogical content explaining its scope, limits, and interpretation, ensuring that users understand what the data shows and what it does not.

One year after it was launched, data.ina.fr has become a reference for journalists, educators, scholars, and numerous professionals. In 2025 alone, over 3.5 million impressions were recorded on the website and its editorial extensions, a 138% increase from the previous year.

Accessible free of charge, data.ina.fr embodies a democratic approach to archives. It equips citizens and professionals with tools to explore, question, and contextualise the media landscape, reinforcing trust, transparency, and informed public debate. Doing so, it demonstrates how audiovisual archives, when activated through data, can become a living resource for society.

On October 2, 2026, television in the Netherlands will celebrate its 75th anniversary—a milestone that Sound & Vision (Beeld & Geluid) will celebrate grandly with the entire country. It will be a year filled with festive activities, but above all, a year in which we take an important step together with the public: completing our national television archive.

Our archive is not yet complete—we are searching for objects, clips, and personal stories to supplement the collection. These hidden treasures may have been preserved anywhere: in attics, in cupboards, or captured on old video tapes. This jubilee year offers the perfect opportunity to track down these missing links in our media history, secure them, and record the stories behind them.

That is why Sound & Vision is organizing a national search in which everyone can play a part. Whether you are a former TV maker, a loyal viewer, young or old—the entire Netherlands is called upon to look for television-related objects, photos, and recordings that make our archive more complete. Through an engaging public campaign and local events, we invite everyone to share their finds and the accompanying stories with us. Together, we will fill in the missing chapters of our collective television history.

This mission is more than just a search: it is also a gift to the Netherlands! Sound & Vision digitizes and archives the discovered recordings to ensure they are preserved for the long term. They will then be made accessible to everyone via our new online portal, The Treasury (de Schatkamer), while physical finds will be given a place in the Media Museum. There, visitors can admire them in exhibitions or within the archive itself.

In this way, our television heritage remains alive and accessible—now and in the future. This ensures that new generations also have the chance to discover the rich history of Dutch television.

The Reporters is a five-part audiovisual documentary series exploring television news production in late socialist Czechoslovakia through the work of individual journalists. Each episode focuses on one television reporter, combining archival footage with personal testimony to examine how news was created within a centrally controlled media system.

Based on archival research and oral history, the series investigates the relationship between journalistic practice, institutional constraints, and television’s role in shaping everyday reality. A distinctive feature of the project is its recontextualization of archival materials through the perspectives of their original authors, linking personal experiences with broader editorial and political structures.

The project is intended for both general audiences and media historians. Released on 1 April 2025, The Reporters is distributed through Czech Television’s platforms and accompanied by articles, discussions, lectures, and other public-facing activities, demonstrating the enduring value of archival footage.