FIAT/IFTA World Conference and General Assembly
Madrid, 27th-31st October 2006

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FIAT/IFTA elections 2006

Elections for the Presidency and for six places on the Executive Council will take place at the General Assembly on October 30th in Madrid.

As of October 16th, the following candidates are declared:

For President:

• Edwin van Huis, Beeld en Geluid (Netherlands)

For the Executive Council:

• Dan di Pierro, CBS News (USA)

• Henry Lindqvist, YLE (Finland)

  Henry Lindqvist has worked in the TV Broadcast business now for 30 years. During this period he has in one way or another been doing with videotapes and recording formats. Starting with 2 inch techniques all the way to modern data tape file based formats.

  He established the videotape post production department at YLE in 1978 and was head of this department for 16 years. This media background means that he has all the time been in close operation with the archive at YLE and elsewhere in terms of storing and retrieving techniques as well as doing recommendations on new production and long term archive formats.

  Since 1994 he has been working as project manager in a mount of projects leading to the total digitized production and transmission environment as well as the tapeless workflow with file based deep archive solutions. He has also led a project aiming at a semiautomatic 1" videotape restoration system which is now in 24h service at YLE.

  This background and expertise is worthful for the working field of the FIAT/IFTA organisation.

  In 1996 Henry Lindqvist started in FIAT/IFTA as a member of the technical commission and has now been chairing the Media Management Commission since it was established in the year 2000.

  Since 2002 he has been a member of FIAT/IFTA Executive Council.

• Jette Rist Bork, DR (Denmark)

  I am a librarian and have been Head of the Archive and Research Centre in Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) since 2001, where the Radio and Television Archives were merged.

  Besides being production archive for Radio and Television we also have a text library and a sound effects archive plus a technical division, where we handle analogue as well as digital formats, e.g. copying, converting, editing, colour grading, web casts etc. We are approximately 150 employees.

  No. 1 focus since 2001 has been the Media Archive, our integrated digital production and archive system. The development has been painful, expensive, long lasting and very interesting.

  No. 2 focus : the last 4 years we have run a rights' management project, which soon will turn into a real rights' centre. The development has been tough, exhausting, bor-ing and in the end satisfying.

  No. 3 focus : DR is building a new multimedia house, and the archive is moving these days. It has been hard work for a long time, but we will live happily ever after in a new beautiful building.

  Strategic focus for the next years : digital bimedial archiving ; how to open up the legacy archives ; archive and archivists in a new role : partnership between archive and production.

  DR is hosting the FIAT conference in 2008, and I will to do my best to secure a successful conference in Copenhagen.

• Dominique Saintville, INA (France)

  I am a project manager at INA Archive Department.

  Recent missions include knowledge management projects intended for organizing useful information about the history of radio and TV programmes and Ina archives and for transmitting it to our staff ; and the establishment of a preservation committee in connection with the development of the Ina Preservation and Digitization Programme. I have been working at INA since 1977. I have long been responsible for the Archive information management systems and methods.

  Before joining INA, I have worked as a documentalist at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, and as a consultant for UNESCO.

  I have been involved in FIAT activities since its creation. I am presently vice-president and I have taken an active part in FIAT latest achievements.

• Herbert Kayduck, ORF (Austria)

  Head of Documentation Television Archives ORF

  My first experience of FIAT/IFTA was at the seminar in Lisbon in 1989 and I have enjoyed the value of international relations within the FIAT/IFTA-community very much – both on personal and on professional level.
  Working internationally in projects and professional organisations like FIAT/IFTA helps to “look over the fence” of single archives and countries and gives a broader understanding of the current questions and answers in the cultural heritage sector.

  FIAT/IFTA as an organisation needs to reflect the professional quality of the everyday work of it´s member organisations. My aim within FIAT is to stimulate the contact and communication between the members, in order to offer quick solutions for the current questions and problems of archives. This communication needs to happen both on personal level but also by using up-to-date information and communication technologies. (e.g. web-forum for member discussions and exchange of ideas)
  By strengthening relations between the members, FIAT/IFTA will keep it´s status as an attractive platform for the worldwide audiovisual archive community.

  Curriculum Vitae

  joined ORF after studies of history and political science in 1982

  main tasks since then:

  • documentalistic work in tv-archives
  • production of archive-based TV-documentaries and series on historical themes
  • project-management within ORF for EU-research-projects in IST-,
  media+ and eContent+ -Framework on the development of asset- management solutions for digital media content (EUROMEDIA, AMICITIA, PRIMAVERA, PRESTOSPACE, BIRTH, VIDEOACTIVE)
  • member of FIAT/IFTA “Media Management–Commission”

• Brid Dooley, RTE (Ireland)

Bríd Dooley is Head of Television Libraries and Archives at RTÉ since 2003.  Her principal function as head of department is in the ongoing management and development of the archives and wider library services. At its core, the department provides a support to programme makers and other users of the libraries and archives, while also ensuring best practice is employed in the preservation, management, development and use of the audio-visual collections. She first joined RTÉ in 2000 to head up the Television Archive project and in that role, set up a professional cataloguing unit for the archive, developed a rights management strategy in conjunction with the legal department and helped to develop a project to digitize all legacy analogue formats to the best available archive standard.  She is focused on developing the potential of the archives as a rich source of content for all aspects of broadcasting and emerging new platforms of distribution and to  ensuring that the archives is at the heart of future broadcasting services and digital technologies. She promotes the archive as a key asset within the organization and has put in place projects to deliver wider access to the unique record of Irish life it represents. www.rte.ie is RTÉ’s portal to the archives.

Prior to joining RTÉ, Bríd has had extensive experience of television archives in the Ireland and the UK. She is an active member of fiat/ifta and has served as a member of the Programme and Production commission member for over three years. She is an active participant at the annual conference and would welcome the opportunity to serve on the executive council, continuing to support and assist in the development of fiat/ifta for all members.

• Sarah Hayes, BBC (UK)

  I am the BBC's Head of Media Asset Management. My responsibilities include heading the Information & Archives department of 480 staff.

  I&A's role is to provide to the BBC a diverse range of media asset management services supporting the programme making process and which ensure that the BBC's valuable content is stored and made accessible for research, reuse and heritage purposes. The BBC has accumulated one of the largest multi media archives in the world and have created a programme catalogue providing a rich source of metadata upon which the BBC has relied for decades. This has more recently been made available to the public via the Open Archive. Our Digital future is dependant upon a real transformation of how we manage our assets in the digital domain. I&A are at the heart of this transformation, collaborating across the BBC with multiple stakeholders to ensure that we deliver a consistent media asset management strategy. This will provide a Simple & Open environment in which we can ensure that our Digital content will be delivered both to our internal customers and to our audiences "whenever, wherever and however" they want it, leading to further Creative exploitation of our content.

  Prior to joining the BBC, I was Chief Executive of GlobeCast Northern Europe a global communications provider for local, regional and world-wide broadcasting via satellite. The company specialised in the uplink, distribution and management of audio, video and data signals via satellite to the broadcast and corporate market as well as a portfolio of secure satellite internet services including: web caching, e-commerce, internet and data broadcast solutions.

Employees of Full Members are eligible to stand for these positions. Any potential candidate should fill in and sign a nomination form available on this website and send it or give it to the General Secretary before 12.00 noon on 29th October. If sending by post, please send the form before October 20th. After that date, forms should be given to me in person in Madrid. You can notify me of a candidature in advance by e-mail and give me the form in Madrid.

Steve Bryant
General Secretary, FIAT/IFTA