Commission meetings

• Training Commission
• Media Management Commission
• Programme & Production Commission
• Television Studies Commission

The future is here

Moderator : Herbert Hayduck, Media Management Commission

New standards

• DVBH standard for use on mobile phones, by Bob Shallow, Nokia
• DVBT standard for digital broadcasting, by Roberto Rossetto, RAI (Italy)
• JPEG 2000 : is this the archive format for the future ? by Jim Lindner, Media Matters (USA)

Archiving new media, e.g. websites internet archiving

Moderator : Daniel Teruggi, INA (France)

Policy and technical issues : what needs to be archived ? How deep ? For whom ?

• Technical complexities, by Daniel Teruggi, INA (France)
• Technical aspects of the American "Creative Commons" and the "Internet Archive", by Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive (USA)
• Strategic approach to corporate Internet archiving, by Cathy Smith, BBC (UK)

Open Archives

Public archives are becoming more open than ever before. This is a debate about the business models, rights and access issues.

With Paul Gerhardt from BBC (UK) and Frank Stark from New Zealand National Archive.

Special session

The United Nations Audiovisual Archive, by Lily Chau from the UN Department of Public Information

The European scene : old and new Europe

Moderator : Neil Regan, EBU

• The Audiovisual Service of the European Commission, by Alain Dumort
• Report back from the "Middle European Archives workshop" (Vienna, April 2005) by Vit Charous, Czech TV
• A new solution for archive management - contract to someone else, by Alain Goossens, INWA (Belgium)
• Digital asset management joins production and the archive, by Alicia Conesa, TVC (Spain)

Workshop 3

EBU / FIAT joint projects, presented by Neil Regan, BBC (UK)

Workshop 4

Educational access projects, moderated by Mike Mashon, Library of Congress (USA)

• BIRTH project about 50 years of European television history. Presentation by Herbert Hayduck, ORF (Austria)
• Screen on line, presented by Richard Paterson, BFI (UK)

Workshop 5

What are the top ten challenges facing archives tomorrow ? Debate moderated by Jean-Marc Bordes, INA (France)

Workshop 6

IBBT-IPEA project to create an archiving and exchange standard solution for TV media, by Robbie de Sutter, Ghent University (Belgium)

The European scene, continued

How could we achieve this access ?

Report on progress on preservation : PrestoSpace

Session moderated by Daniel Teruggi

• Presentation of surveys on target users
• First results of the project after 18 months
• Plans and business models for Preservation Factories

Sponsors session

Moderator : Dan DiPierro

• Sony Preservation Factory : the custodian of European Audiovisual heritage, by Henri Chite, Sony (France)

The American scene 

• American archives : an insight into all areas of media archiving in the USA, including public domain, national collections, newsreel archives, and broadcasters, both national and local output.
  Debate led by Ron Simon, Museum of Television and Radio (USA), with John Koshel from NBC, Lewanne Jones, freelance researcher, Greg Lukow and Mike Mashon from the Library of Congress, Marshall Breeding from Vanderbilt University Library.
• American and European footage rights : the significant transatlantic differences, by Hubert Best, Bird & Bird (Sweden)
• Access to PBS television output : a study about viewers requirements, by Howard Besser from New-York University, and Nan Rubin from Channel 13 (USA)

Workshop 7

Continuation of the debate on American Archives

Workshop 8

Archives in the new world

Digital television access, mobile telephony, use of moving images on the internet are leading to new platforms, new business models, new legal issues, new market players. What are the implications for footage archives? A panel of experts, including Hubert Best from Bird & Bird, and Matthew White from National Geographic TV and Film Library, and led by Julie Lewis from Focal, will address these issues.

Workshop 9

European Union legislation and its potential affect on the commercial activities of archives, moderated by Brid Dooley from RTE (Ireland) and Karl Maier from SWR (Germany).

Conclusions of the conference

By General Secretary Steve Bryant and President Emmanuel Hoog