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Mexico Seminar Report
Segundo Seminario de Archivos sonoros y audiovisuales
Mexico City, May 19-23, 2003


Zapata

The seminar in Mexico City was initiated by Radio Educacion in the year 2002.

The original idea was to set up a local seminar for Mexicans only. The policy was changed during the FIAT/IFTA conference in Antalya last year to make it possible for FIAT/IFTA members in Latin America to participate. FIAT/IFTA contribution to the programme was lecturers and workshops. The programme dealt with both production of radio and television programmes and how to reuse the programmes.

Annemieke de Jong, Information Manager at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and member of the Media Management Commission of FIAT/IFTA, presented a completely revised and up-dated version in Spanish of her book about metadata : "Los metadatos en el entorno de la produccion audiovisual". The book was translated from English to Spanish by Jesus Anderez, FIAT member and Jefe del Departamento de Documentacion y Archivo de ETB (Euskal Telebiska -Television Vasca), Spain. Annemieke de Jong and Jesus Anderez presented the new book and did an extensive workshop for Mexican media students on the subject later on. The delegates got a copy of the document written in Spanish and printed in Mexico.

Tedd Urnes was invited to give a paper on audiovisual archives. A lecture was given and, later on the same day, a workshop was set up for those who wanted detailed information about audiovisual archives.

Amira Arratia from Television Nacional de Chile took part in the workshop about audiovisual archives and worked with delegates who could not speak English. Translators - English to Spanish - did a good work both during the open sessions and during the workshops.

Different Mexican television stations took part presenting their archives, among which Canal 11 (a FIAT full member) and TV Azteca.

The administration of the seminar was excellent in all ways due to the hard work of Maestra Lidia Camacho, Directora General Radio Educacion and Perla Olivia Rodriguez Resendiz, Radio Educacion. In a time where we all know that it is difficult to get sponsors for international seminars and conferences, it was encouraging to see the list of sponsors for the seminar.


Lidia Camacho

Jesus Anderez & Tedd Johansen

Tedd Urnes
14 July 2003

 

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