FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2008
& General Assembly

PRESENTATIONS & PAPERS

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Saturday 20 September

09.00 – 10.30: Plenary – Conference Opening

• Keynote speech by Peter Kaufman (Intelligent TV), USA

11.00 – 13.00: Plenary – The Business Perspective for Archives

• Report on the strategic and business conclusions from the recent Hilversum seminar –“Employing Value” by Irmgard Noordhoek (Beeld en Geluid), Netherlands


• Business challenges of the future by Jeff Ubois, USA


• 360 degree commissions led by archive projects by Phillipe van Meerbeeck (VRT), Belgium



• The use of archive content in mobile guidebooks by Isabelle Maenhout (Navitel), Belgium



• Using your archive expertise for commercial benefit by Peter Holm Lingaard (TV2), Denmark



• New Rights packages for broadcasters by Rob Kirkham (BBC), UK

14.30 – 16.00: Workshop 1: Continuing the theme of business perspectives for archives

14.30 – 16.30: Workshop 2: African Archives (in French)

• Report on the AIME project by Hamet Ba (RTS), Senegal

16.30 – 18.30: Workshop 3: ARC-UNESCO - Archives At Risk

• Collaborative project 1: Thailand by Kannika Chivapakdee (Museum and Archive Centre, National Broadcasting Service) Thailand and Irmgard Noordhoek (Beeld en Geluid), Netherlands


• Collaborative project 2: Botswana by Eva-Lis Green (SVT), Sweden




• Presentation of the new "Archives at Risk"- website and latest activities by Sue Malden

16.30 – 17.30: Workshop 4: VideoActive project

• Presentation by Sonja de Leeuw (University of Utrecht), Netherlands

Sunday 21 September

11.30 – 13.00: Plenary – Media technology and its impact on Media archives

• EBU metadata work by Giorgio Dimino (RAI), Italy & Jean-Pierre Evian (EBU), Switzerland



• Preserving Digital Public television funded by the Library of Congress by Nan Rubin, USA



• Sports metadata workflow at Wimbledon by Andrew Alt (TWI), UK

14.30 – 15.30: Workshop 5: Metadata Quality Criteria – Search and tagging – User Generated Content

• Pisa Results by Maarten Verwaest (VRT), Belgium



• Empowering by Roelof van Zwol (Yahoo Research Iberia), Spain

Monday 22 September

09.00 – 11.00: Plenary – Academics and Media archives

• The Digital Object - joint presentation




• Archiving the Indiscrete by Annemieke de Jong (NIBG), Netherlands




• Web Legal Deposit by Claude Mussou (INA, France)




• The value of recording and keeping complete days of output. Sociology of a Virtual Social World. by Eric Mace of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, CADIS, Paris Département de Communication, Université Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle, France
• All Day on Four: observations from watching recordings of complete days of output from Britain's Channel Four.  by Steve Bryant, Senior Curator (Television) (BFI), UK

11.00 – 13.00: Plenary – Preservation and Migration – Living in the Digital world

• The Future of Storage, problems and economical perspectives by Richard Wright (BBC), UK



• Migration, multiple definitions for a same work, quality implications of migration processes by Daniel Teruggi (INA), France



• Use case INA : Migrations, consequences and difficulties, how to make choices by Jean Varra (INA), France



• Use case ORF : IMX to data-tape migration-plan, by Christoph Bauer (ORF), Austria



• Use case RAI : Automated Betacam to file migration chain, by Giorgio Dimino (RAI), Italy



• Use case BBC : D3 to files format migrations, by James Insell (BBC), UK

14.00 – 17.00: Workshop 7: Archive clinic

• Introductory Presentation




• Unexpected problems arriving when transferring Beta and BetaSP tapes by Jean Varra (INA), France



• Video and Film restoration Irish experience; by Arthur Keating (RTE), Irland

14.00 – 14.30: Workshop 8: L’Europe des Cultures

14.30 – 15.00: Workshop 9: Opening of Archive Holdings

15.00 – 15.30: Workshop 10: Archives and the Environment

• Green ecological issues affecting Archives – Green IT, what’s that? by Helena Nilsson (SVT), Sweden

16.00 – 17.00: Workshop 11: How to efficiently launch an outsourced preservation plan

• INA experience by Jean Varra (INA), France