FIAT/IFTA Nordic-Baltic Seminar at Hotel Viru
Preliminary Programme

Friday
May 26

OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE FIRST FIAT/IFTA NORDIC-BALTIC SEMINAR IN TALLINN

Chaired by Tedd Johansen, Head of Television Archives (NRK, Norway), Vice President FIAT/ IFTA. Welcome and Keynote speech by General Director of the Estonian Television, Mrs Tiina Kangro. Opening speech by Dr. Peter Dusek, Head of Television Archives (ORF, Austria), President FIAT/IFTA. Presentation of the Seminar program by Jyrki Stolt, Archive Sales Manager (YLE, Finland), Member of the FIAT/IFTA Executive Council and Baltic Area Coordinator.

WHAT IS FIAT/IFTA?

Moderator: Tedd Johansen A presentation about the structure of FIAT/FTA and the work of the Commissions and Work Groups

THE USE OF MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE IN NEW TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS

Moderator: Tedd Johansen Speakers: Lasse Nilsson, Archive Production Manager (SVT, Sweden), Secretary General FIAT/IFTA Finn-Ulrik Berntsen, Researcher Archivist (NRK, Norway) The purpose of this session is to update information on ways to reuse archive material in new productions. The session will contain plenty of video illustrations.

MAKING THE ARCHIVE PROFITABLE: ARCHIVE PROGRAMMING

Lasse Nilsson will talk about how to reuse old and forgotten television and pre-television archive holdings. Issues: How to inform your organization about the treasures stored in your archives, How to select to programmes and non-transmitted material, How to handle the material from a technical point of view, and finally - How to market this kind of programming to the audience.

DISTRICT PRODUCTIONS AND REUSE OF ARCHIVAL MATERIALS

The the title of Finn-Ulrik BerntsenÇs lecture implies that the audiovisual archives hold material of considerable value for programming also is to be found in decentralized part of a broadcast organization. He will talk about reuse of footage in new television productions organised by district offices of NRK (the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation). Issues of interest: Reference work, Computer search for footage, Copyright, Formats, Practical problems.

SELECTION AND PRESERVATION OF TELEVISION MATERIAL

Moderator: Tedd Johansen Speakers: Sue Malden, Corporate Affairs Manager (BBC, UK), Chairman of the FIAT/IFTA Programming & Production Commission and Vice President of FIAT/IFTA Ingrid Briseid, Senior Research Archivist (NRK, Norway) This session aims at giving you some ideas about how to handle your historical material and transmitted programmes in connection with new productions.

RECOMMENDATIONS ON SELECTION FIAT/IFTA Recommendations on selection and preservation of television materials will be introduced by the FIAT/IFTA P&PC Chair Sue Malden.

NRK SELECTION AND PRESERVATION POLICIES

Ingrid Briseid will give you information about the preservation and selection of old news programmes transmitted by the NRK. Screenings of tv-productions will be an important part also of this session.

THE FUTURE OF OLD TAPES

Moderator: Tedd Johansen Speaker: Henry Lindqvist, Technical Department Project Manager (YLE, Finland), Member of FIAT/IFTA Technical Commission How shall we manage the reuse of old programmes from a technical piont of view? We know old tapes needs special treatment and care to survive for future programming. And what to do about the old formats? Henry Lindqvist has got some answers to these crucial questions.

TRAINING OF AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVISTS IN THE DIGITAL ERA

Moderator: Tedd Johansen Speakers: Branko Bubenik, Head of Television Archives (HTV, Croatia), Chair FIAT/IFTA Training Commission and Member of FIAT/IFTA Executice Council JyrkiStolt, Archive Sales Manager (YLE1, Finland), Member of FIAT/IFTA Executice Council and Baltic Area Coordinator Branko Bubenik will give a short overview of TV archive staff situation within FIAT/IFTA membership with analysis and comments. He will try to discuss the influence of technology changes on personnel requirements for TV-archives and the standardization of personnel models (great, middle and small TV-archives). Jyrki Stolt will introduce an audiovisual archivist basic training seminar in Helsinki this fall, hosted by YLE.

FILM PRESERVATION

Moderator: Tedd Johansen Speakers: Not yet decided

Saturday
March 27

A CLOSE-UP ON BALTIC AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES Moderators: Tedd Johansen and Jyrki Stolt

THE AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES OF THE BALTIC COUNTRIES: A REPORT AND REVIEW

Speaker: Robert Egeter van Kuyk, Senior Archive Consultant (NAA, Netherlands), Member of the FIAT/IFTA Documentation Commission.

REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS

Moderators: Tedd Johansen and Jyrki Stolt Film preservation and the audiovisual history of Estonia, a report by Ivi Tomingas, Estonian Film Archive, Estonia. þETV News Archives. Present situationþreport by Reet Harkmaa, Head of ETV News Archives, Estonia. Inputs from other Estionan Archives, Latvian Archives, Lithuanian Archives and S:t Petersburg Archives not yet decided.

FUTURE TECHNOLOGY - STRATEGIES FOR A DIGITAL FUTURE

Moderators: Tedd Johansen and Jyrki Stolt Speakers: May Helen Noreld, Senior Archivist (NRK, Norway) Tedd Johansen, Head of Television Archives (NRK, Norway) Henry Lindqvist, Technical Deparftment Manager (YLE, Finland) Marjo Viita, Archive Editor (SVT, Sweden) Rainer A. Kellerhals, Master of Engineering (TecMath, Germany) Philip Page, Managin Director (Informix Inc. Media Business Unit, USA) ORF speaker - not yet decided (ORF, Austria), Member of FIAT/IFTA Documentation Commission This session will try to give different aspects on the strategies for digitisation of audiovisual archives as well as advancements in technical solutions that have direct implications on present archive holdings.

THE DIGITAL FUTURE AT NRK

Tedd Johansen will try to give an overview on the present digitisation projects at the public broadcaster NRK in Norway.

METADATA PROJECTS IN NRK

May Norfeld will present the different metadata projects on the area going on at NRK.

CONTENT MANAGEMENT FOR TELEVISION PRODUCTION AND ARCHIVING

Rainer Kellerhals gives an overview over the terminology used in digital media asset management and the typical workflows to be supported by these systems. He will also present the requirements for a generic baseline software and hardware architecture for digital media asset management systems and outlines the requirements for mass storage systems in audio and video broadcast applications. There will also be implementation examples from broadcasting organisations and an outlook on future developments in digital media asset management.

24 HOURS OF DIGITAL ARCHIVING

Marjo Viita has been working with the implementation of the archive system for the new 24 hours news channel at Sveriges Television. She will provide us with her þhands onþ experience of this project, pointing out the pitfalls and the implications of this project for the rest of the companyÇs archiving activities, providing a 24 hours access text and movingi images archive facility.

MEDIA ASSET MANAGEMENT

Some of you might have heard Philip Page on this topic at the FIAT/IFTA World Conference in Chile or at the AMIA Conference in Montreal last fall. This is an update and expansion of these presentations and since we know the development in this area is rapid, there will be a lot of news.

WIDESCREEN - A NEW FORMAT IN BROADCASTING

The new aspect ratio of 16 by 9 in television is already here and it will affect the archiving of television material. What is the differences to the old format 4 by 3? Henry Lindqvist of YLE will give us an update and guide us to the future.

INPUT BY ORF - TITLE NOT YET DECIDED

STATUTORY DEPOSIT LAW AND AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVING

Moderators: Tedd Johansen and Jyrki Stolt Speakers: Karl Erik Andersen, Senior Archivist (NBR, Norway), Member of FIAT/IFTA Technical Commission Sven Allerstrand, Managing Director (ALB, Sweden), Member of FIAT/IFTA Television Studies Workgroup The speakers will give an overview on both the technical, administrative and legal aspects on managing collections of audiovisual archive material based on the statutory deposit law.

BBC AND SALES POLICY

Moderators: Tedd Johansen and Jyrki Stolt Speaker: Sue Malden,

QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION

Moderators: Tedd Johansen and Jyrki Stolt