Los Archivos Sonoros y Visuales en America Latina

Seminario Internacional, Mexico City

Due to the success of the international seminar in Mexico City in November 2001 initiated by the FIAT/IFTA Latin American Regional Group (LARG), Radio Educacion has decided to set up a new seminar in Mexico City in May 2003. The aim of the seminar was finally decided during the workshop for Latin Americans at the FIAT/IFTA conference in Turkey, Antalya in October 2002.

The host for the seminar is CONACULTA / Radio Educacion in Mexico City. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA), UNESCO and Federation Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF) are also invited to participate.

The target group for the seminar are Latin Americans but any FIAT member who is interested can join. Officially FIAT is dedicated to work for the seminar. Unfortunately, this year there is no sponsor supporting the event. The seminar in Mexico City in November 2001 was sponsored by Ascential Software, USA, a former FIAT member.

The preliminary programme for the seminar has been made by Radio Educacion : Lidia Camacho, Directora General, and Perla Olivia Rodriguez Resendiz - both participated at the FIAT conference in Antalya last year. The preliminary programme so far contents interesting lectures about radio, sound and television archives. The audiovisual archives in Mexico will be presented. FIAT members like Annemieke de Jong, Tedd Urnes (former Johansen), Richard Wright, Amira Arrata,... will be lecturing.

The venue in Mexico City. The dates are May 19-23, 2003. For those of you who do not speak Spanish, English translations will be provided.

Welcome to Mexico.

Tedd Urnes (former Johansen) - tedd.johansen@nrk.no
Chairman of The Latin American Regional Group (LARG)

Lidia Camacho

Perla Olivia Rodriguez, Tedd Urnes, Lidia Camacho and Amira Arratia

Preliminary programme overview

Monday, May 19th

Opening session
Magisterial Conference : The Sound Patrimony as Memory of the World
Dr. Abdelaziz Abid, Head Manager of the Memory of the World Programme of UNESCO
The profile of the Sound Archives in Mexico
Chair: Lidia Camacho, Head Manager of Radio Educación

Tuesday, May 20th

The Present Situation of the Sound Archives in Mexico
Chair: Rocío Micher, Vicepresident of the National Network of Educative and Cultural Radio and TV Broadcasters of Mexico
Basic Works of a Sound Archive
Chair: Dolores Beístegui, Head Manager of Mexican Institute of Radio, IMER
Projects & Proposals of Sound Documentation
Chair: Fernando Escalante, Radio UNAM.

Wednesday, May 21st

Challenges of the sound archives in Mexico
Chair: Olga Durón, Radio Educación
Rules of Cataloguing of the International Association of Sound Archives (IASA)
Chris Clark, British Library, England
The bridge from the analogical to digital
Chair: Perla Olivia Rodríguez, Radio Educación

Tuesday, May 22nd

Present situation of the television archives in Mexico
Chair: Iñaki Alzurgaray, President of the National Network of Educative and Cultural Radio and TV Broadcasters of Mexico
Magisterial Conference: The archives in the audiovisual environment
Chair: Enrique Strauss, Head Manager of Channel 22
Speaker : Tedd Urnes, NRK, Norway

Friday, May 23rd

Projects & Proposal of Audiovisual Documentation
Chair: Omar Chanona, Bellas Artes
Crossing the digital breach
Chair: Lucina Jiménez, Head Manager of CENART
Closing session

Workshops

Sound Restoration
Instructor: Dietrich Schuller, Austria
Cataloguing of sound archives
Instructor: Chris Clark, England
Sound archives and new technologies
Instructor: Albretch Haefner, Deutschland
Strategies for the organization and handling of television archives
Instructor: Tedd Urnes, Norway
Use and application of metadata in audio-visual archives
Instructor: Annemieke de Jong/Holland and Kevin Bradley/ Australia
Systems of digital storage in media libraries
Instructor: Rainer Hubert, Austria