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Photobank as an assistant of our clients
Neris subsidiary prepares for the Olympic Games
CTK services – the Sports and Football databases
E-mails in HTML format
Theatre in the CTK underground spaces
PHOTOBANK as an indispensable assistant of our clients
THE PHOTOBANK IS A SHOP-WINDOW OF THE CTK PHOTO DESK BECAUSE IT CONTAINS NOT
ONLY WHOLE CURRENT PRODUCTION, BUT ALSO HISTORICALLY VALUABLE PHOTO DOCUMENTS.
Whereas CTK was founded on October 18,
1918, its then „photo department“ started to develop in the mid-1920s
only. Nevertheless the photo desk started to document right from the
beginning all significant events in Czechoslovakia as well as abroad.
The desk´s activities have not been interrupted throughout its
existence to date and so the unique collection of photographs has been
in a way continually and more or less systematically completed. It was
a blessing in disguise that the extensive photo archive did not burn
down at the end of World War Two when the CTK building was bombarded
and largely damaged in the following fire. The reason was that it was
relocated to Vinohrady during the war.
It is necessary to stress that the
electronic photobank, which currently has about 600,000 photographs, is
despite of its extent only a narrow segment of the photo archive which
contains more than five million photographs on classical film materials
- glass plates, negatives and slides.
We repeatedly remind our clients that they
do not have to give up if they do not find the searched for photograph
in the databank, but they should phone or send an e-mail to the photo
documentary department and the photograph can be found in the classical
card file which is functionary and frequented to date. Such found
photograph is then immediately included in the photobank.
The photobank is besides the daily topical
photo service the most monitored product of the photo desk. For better
orientationit is divided into several sections:
- PHOTO NEWS
- PHOTO ARCHIVE
- KALEIDOSCOPE
- FASHION
- ILLUSTRATIVE PHOTOS
- ENGLISH OFFER
Kaleidoscope
is mainly designed for society magazines, English Offer is in English
and serves foreign clients, first of all. Illustrative Photo is the
latest section and not too extensive for the time being, nevertheless
daily completed and it should become a useful assistant namely for
graphics journalists when creating collages and graphs.
The photobank is not only enriched day by
day with the production of our photo reporters who work all over the
country, but also with the most interesting photographs by foreign
agencies with which our photo desk traditionally cooperates. The
external collaborators from several foreign agencies of whom there are
more than one hundred at present and whom CTK represents by means of
the photobank in the sale of their photographs, are another significant
source of photobank additions. Next to such ringing names as František
Drtikol, Jaroslav Kučera, Pavel Vácha, Liba Taylorová, whole archives
of such photographers as Jan Halaška or Karel Kestner have been placed
in our care. The ingenious photobank software very accurately registers
any manipulation with any photograph, which allows for an entirely
correct settlement with the represented authors.
Our ambition is to more and more
intensively transfer classical photographs from the archive into the
infobank digital environment, as well as to extend the sources of
photographs so that the offer be as wide as possible and thematically
varied. Besides representing authors and buying photographs we try to
gain material from inheritances and our documentarists visit secondhand
bookshops in order to gain photographs which may be missing for the
photobank to be complete.
Despite all care which we devote to the
organisation and operation of CTK Photobank, we are aware of the fact
that there is always something to improve and therefore we are pleased
to get any of your comments or suggestions which would help clients to
be maximally satisfied.
Neris subsidiary prepares for the Olympic Games
THIS YEAR´S OLYMPIC GAMES IN ATHENS WILL BE
ANOTHER OCCASION FOR NERIS, A CTK SUBSIDIARY, TO CREATE SPECIAL DATA
AND NEWS PRODUCTS FOR CZECH MOBILE OPERATORS.
The Neris offer will traditionally include
a broad range of the short message service (SMS). It will provide a
continuous SMS news service from the most important Olympic events as
well as information from all most significant sports with an emphasis
on those where the Czech Republic has ambitions to win medals.
The extended multimedia service (MMS) will
include a textual and photo service on the important events on all
Olympic sports grounds as well as on events which accompany the
Olympics behind the scene, in the political sphere and in the security
area. WAP services for mobile telephones will besides the broad Olympic
news service also include charts of medallists and nations standings,
running charts of collective sports and other data files.
Neris is a provider of the news service
for all three Czech mobile operators. Besides the Olympic news service
from Athens, Neris prepared for them this year, which is rich in sport,
a special collection of services from the World Ice-hockey Championship
in Prague and Ostrava and from the Football European Championship in
Portugal.
We present CTK services - the Sports and Football databases this time
BESIDES THE SPORTS NEWS SERVICE CTK OFFERS
TO THOSE INTERESTED IN INFORMATION ABOUT SPORTS MORE DETAILED DATA AND
STATISTICS WHICH ARE STORED IN THE SPORTS AND FOOTBALL DATABASES.
• FOOTBALL DATABASE
A useful tool for everybody who needs
detailed data on Czech and foreign football. In comparison with
publicly accessible sources clients find there much more detailed and
complete information and what is important, they can search in it
according to criteria which are the most convenient for them. It is
aimed at European football and it contains basic data on all national
teams and on more than 10,000 players who have appeared on a national
team of one of the 52 UEFA member countries since 1994. The database
also covers the 25 most important football countries outside Europe -
all which have since 1994 participated in a football championship. The
part called Football - league brings detailed information on the Czech
footballleague since its origin in 1993, basic data on all league
players, surveys of mutual matches and many other statistical data
which can probably be used in everyday editorial work .
• SPORTS DATABASE
A continuously updated database containing
almost 2,500 documents with data on sports events in the Czech Republic
and the world. You will find there surveys of the champions of the
world, Europe and the Czech Republic in individual sports, results of
further top international competitions, development charts of world and
Czech records as well as statistical surveys. You can choose from more
than 75 monitored sports including young, dynamic and marginal ones.
Do not send us e-mails in HTML format
AS
ALL COMPANIES WHEN COMMUNICATING WITH THEIR PARTNERS USE ELECTRONIC
MAIL, WE TOO ENDEAVOUR TO ENSURE ITS MAXIMUM SAFETY, RELIABILITY AND
EFFECTIVENESS.
CTK applies a multi-level security system
of e-mail communication. This system includes the interception and
preventative removing of potentially dangerous news items and their
parts. These include besides attachments in the form of executable
files also variants of messages in html format, which can contain
automatically initialised scripts. Therefore if you send us e-mails and
use the html format, make sure, please, that your system also sends the
purely textual variant of the message. In the opposite case the
addressee may not be able to access your message at all. Moreover, we
are not unfortunately able to inform the sender of this with regard to
the frequent abuse of html mails by spammers.
Theatre in the CTK underground spaces
IN THE RECONSTRUCTED UNDERGROUND SPACES OF
THE CTK BUILDING IN PRAGUE IN OPLETALOVA STREET THE THEATRE OF RADEK
BRZOBOHATÝ OPENED IN APRIL. FORMERLY THE THEATRE OF MUSIC HAD ITS SEAT
THERE.
Radek Brzobohatý inaugurated his theatre
in April by a successful performance of Donald Churchill „Moment of
Weakness“ which he performed in this space together with Hana
Maciuchova in the sixties already. He has not returned alone but with
all his family. The actress and wife of Radek Brzobohatý, Hana
Gregorová, the producer. The company manager, daughter Rolla runs the
adjoining restaurant and son Ondřej composes music for the drama
staged.
CTK Newsletter No. 4/2004