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ut for a number of reasons these budgets are not used to their full pot<strong>en</strong>tial. First, the<br />
Mediafund is limited in their mandate to financing productions of public broadcasters. Dutch<br />
public broadcasters withdraw from the Internet, because they are suffering from governm<strong>en</strong>tal<br />
cuts and limitations on their <strong>online</strong> pres<strong>en</strong>ce. The governm<strong>en</strong>t sees a lot of <strong>online</strong> activities<br />
from public broadcasters as unfair competition for commercial <strong>en</strong>terprises. Therefore all <strong>online</strong><br />
activities must be immediately linked to productions for radio or television. Second, for some<br />
reason Dutch production companies and makers seem hesitant to experim<strong>en</strong>t with these new<br />
forms. Where the public funds are, or become, involved with the financing of <strong>online</strong> forms of<br />
docum<strong>en</strong>taries they are very interested in co-operation with Sound and Vision. Thus they also<br />
allow for the easiest, most standardized form of acquisition.<br />
Further sources for the financing of <strong>online</strong> docum<strong>en</strong>taries is oft<strong>en</strong> a combination of<br />
funding by privately held funds, such as the SNS Reaal fund, VSB fund, or GasTerra, funding<br />
by foundations and clubs, through crowdfunding and makers’ own resources. The number of<br />
crowdfunding organisations in The Netherlands is very limited, so these are another possible<br />
point of <strong>en</strong>try for Sound and Image to acquire materials for their collection.<br />
Among production companies there is still only a limited amount of activity on the<br />
Internet. The exception is Submarine, a in part publicly fun<strong>de</strong>d production company whose<br />
mandate it is to experim<strong>en</strong>t for commercial <strong>en</strong>terprises to be inspired by the possibilities<br />
pres<strong>en</strong>ted. These type of production companies are op<strong>en</strong> to co-operation but are more<br />
concerned with the possibilities for reuse and re-distribution of productions. Sound and Vision<br />
could explore the possibilities to offer their services in return for guaranteed <strong>de</strong>livery of new<br />
productions to the archives.<br />
At the time wh<strong>en</strong> <strong>online</strong> docum<strong>en</strong>taries are already distributed <strong>online</strong>, acquisition can<br />
only take place manually. This procedure is very labour int<strong>en</strong>sive and therefore costly. On<br />
vi<strong>de</strong>o portals such as YouTube and Vimeo labels, categories, channels and <strong>de</strong>scriptions are<br />
not accurate <strong>en</strong>ough to filter out the relevant vi<strong>de</strong>os in a few simple actions. Use can be ma<strong>de</strong><br />
of festivals’ expertise in the selection of material for contests. Doclab and the Dutch Online<br />
Film Festival have the network, resources and expertise to select the most important <strong>online</strong><br />
contributions.<br />
CHAPTER 5: OPTIONS FOR PRESERVATION<br />
Five approaches to the longterm preservation of internet docum<strong>en</strong>taries (and other ‘interactives’)<br />
are <strong>de</strong>scribed in this chapter and judged on their merits.<br />
Technological preservation<br />
This method of preservation is concerned with the preservation of the original hard- and<br />
software configuration in which a production was originally launched. It inclu<strong>de</strong>s the storage<br />
and maint<strong>en</strong>ance of technological objects and machines. The advantage is that the original<br />
viewer experi<strong>en</strong>ce is preserved. The downsi<strong>de</strong>s of this method are so numerous that it is<br />
hardly feasible. Consi<strong>de</strong>r the <strong>en</strong>ormous quantity of technological objects that would have to<br />
be preserved, the expertise that would be required to keep these machines working and the