The seminar is jointly organised by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, with the support of the International Federation of Television Archives, CoPeAM, the Arab States Broadcasting Union and the French Embassy in Egypt.

Objectives of the seminar

• Promoting the audiovisual heritage of the Middle East and Mediterranean area
• Federating regional initiatives in the field of digital technologies applied to audiovisual content
• Presenting the state of the art of audiovisual archival material preservation and digitization
• Evaluating the impact of the changes induced by digital technologies in the area of media archives preservation, access and management.

Target audience

• Managers and professionals of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the Egyptian TV (ERTU)
• Managers and professionals of media archives in the region (25 countries : Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, Arabic Emirates, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Yemen)

Languages

Working languages will be Arabic, English and French with simultaneous translation.

Draft programme

Monday 18 June 2007

• Registration of participants (from 3 p.m.)
• Guided tour of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (at 4 p.m.)

Tuesday 19th June

• Opening session : Issues and challenges faced by archive managers in the digital area
• From analogue to digital formats : the long migration of legacy archives
  • Preservation and safeguarding of analogical material
  • Migration strategies
  • PrestoSpace contribution to migration solutions

Wednesday 20th June

• Managing the digital holding : new issues arising from digital archiving
  • Managing born digital content
  • Managing newly digitised materials
• Accessing digital contents
  • Documentation and legal requirements
  • The large libraries approach
  • Access for academic research
  • Access for the audiovisual industry professionals
  • Access for the general public
• What will come of the archival material which has not been digitised ?
  • The archives at risk group and project
  • The importance of international cooperation for the preservation of archives
• Closing session

Registration

Registration is free of charge.

Get the registration form and the Information paper