Second Asian seminar on audiovisual archives
"Building up a national audiovisual memory : a day after day challenge"

Phnom Penh, 4th - 6th December 2006

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Announcement

Following the first Asian seminar on audiovisual archives organized in Beijing in October 2005, FIAT/IFTA, the Institut national de l'audiovisuel, AIBD, the Asia Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development, and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs / French Embassy in Cambodia jointly organize a regional Seminar on audiovisual archives on 5th and 6th December 2006, in Phnom-Penh, Cambodia.

The seminar is hosted by the Ministry of Information, Kingdom of Cambodia.

The seminar will gather managers from national archives and broadcasting organizations from a range of Asian countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, China and Hong-Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri-Lanka, Timor Leste, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia.

The seminar will be preceded, on December 4th, by the inauguration of Bophana, the Audiovisual resource center of Cambodia.

The seminar will address some of the issues related to the building up of a national audiovisual memory :

• The significance of the audio visual memory
• The design of an audiovisual archive center, with a focus on the newly inaugurated Audiovisual resource centre of Cambodia
• The preservation of the existing audiovisual heritage and the provision of access. Ongoing projects in the region will be reviewed
• History in the making : recording tomorrow's archives

Working languages will be Khmer, English and French with simultaneous translation. Registration will be free of charge. Further information will be circulated in due time by the organisers.

Outline of the programme

"Building up a national audiovisual memory : a day after day challenge"

Tuesday 5th December

Opening session

• Greetings from host and partners
• Issues and challenges faced by archive managers in the digital era

Providing preservation and access to the existing audio visual heritage

• Round Table 1
  Developing an audiovisual resource center : the Bophana Center case
• Round Table 2
  Sharing regional experiences : preservation and digitization ongoing projects in Asia

Wednesday 13th December

• Round Table 3
  Looking for international support

Building up the collection of tomorrow's archives

• Round Table 4
  Radio, Television and Audiovisual Production sources
• Round Table 5
  Documenting historical tragedies

Closing session

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