Why and how to join FIAT/IFTA

FIAT/IFTA benefits to archive members

• Benefit from established, consistent international standards of professional media archive management activities e.g. the FIAT Guidelines for Selection for acquisition and preservation ; Key metadata fields
• Learn from other professional media archive managers experience captured in FIAT publications e.g. the FIAT/IFTA Guidelines on use/misuse of archive materials
• Influence international professional standard setting
• Gain partnerships for capital and resource intensive projects
• Hear about practical management experience of fellow professionals approaching and working in the digital domain
• Improve the abilities of your workforce by reciprocal training opportunities with other similar archives or the FIAT/FOCAL Summer school
• Share challenges of funding for vital archive preservation
• Identify joint opportunities to exploit the potential of your archives
• See potential business opportunities of working with other archives
• Benefit from being part of a larger lobby group for the improvement of the international and national status of media archives
• Work with others addressing common challenges eg understanding the implication of Intellectual Property Rights
• Gain useful comparative data of holdings, budgets, working practices, etc.
• Share the experiences of other professionals working with equipment & solution providers
• Learn about the range of different archive public access provisions
• Gain from professional links with other leading media organisations eg FOCAL, AMIA, IASA,FIAF, IFLA, ICA
• Attend moderately priced local and international media archive conferences
• Win the international acclaim of a FIAT Television or New Media Archive award

The work of FIAT/IFTA in its capacity as an international forum of information and experts for modern media organisations and a bridge between a variety of media professionals has led to a significant improvement in the co-operation between national media and broadcasting archives.

FIAT/IFTA benefits to sponsors

• FIAT/FTA is an ideal platform for new business opportunities and new valuable alliances in the media archive management business
• FIAT/IFTA is one of the foremost organisations, representing over 180 media archives in 70 countries worldwide
• FIAT/IFTA is constantly growing in importance and influence on media archive policy on an international scale
• FIAT/IFTA is a lead body in setting international standards of media archive management
• FIAT/IFTA has strong links with all other leading international media archive organisations IASA, AMIA, EBU, IFLA, ICA, FIAF, DELOS
• FIAT/IFTA also has good links with governmental organisations responsible for media archive/ heritage matters eg UNESCO, UN, EU
• FIAT/IFTA is a major centre of expertise and information broker for a range of issues associated with media archive management - storage, preservation, knowledge management, metadata standards
• FIAT/IFTA facilitates collaboration in a range of pioneering projects from which many manufacturers have benefited eg Euromedia, Presto
• FIAT/IFTA offers a variety of opportunities to demonstrate the latest media archiving solutions and equipment at conferences
• FIAT/IFTA presents two unique international television and new media awards which attract considerable publicity for the sponsors

Since its establishment in 1977, FIAT/IFTA has made a significant contribution to the improving professional archive standards and working practices on an international level.

Membership categories

The Association is made up of Full, Associated, Supporting and Honorary Members.

Full members

Full Members must be Archive Services of TV and Radio or TV only organisations or TV and Radio or TV only Production Companies, maintaining archives of their own programmes, or those authorised by TV and Radio or TV only organisations or national governments to maintain archives of TV and Radio or TV only programmes for cultural or other reasons. An organisation being a Full Member receives one membership but may be represented by different individuals belonging to that organisation.

Annual fee (as at Oct. 2002) : EUR 850,--

Download the Application form for full membership.

Associate members

Associated Members may be organisations or individuals and will only have the right to receive the regular communications and publications issued by the Association as well as to participate in the meetings.

Annual fee (as at Oct. 2002) : EUR 500,-- (Organisational) ; EUR 170,-- (Individual)

Download the Application form for associate individual membership or the Application form for associate organisational membership.

Supporting members

Supporting Members are organisations related to the television and radio industries who wish to express their support of television and radio archives by way of an annual donation in excess of the fees for Full Members.

Annual fee (as at Oct. 2002) : EUR 3.140,--

Download the Application form for supporting membership.

Procedure

In order to become a member, it is necessary to apply for membership and to accept the Statutes in force. The applications are submitted to the decision of FIAT’s Executive Council.

The applicant will then receive an invoice, but he will become a member after his payment is received. His membership will be confirmed by letter or e-mail and he will receive the passwords for the website.

As from 1st April 2003, all new members will pay a pro rata sum when they join, according to the time of the year. For instance, if they join after March, they will pay 75% of the yearly rate, after June 50% and after September 25%.