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 16.10.2009UNESCO World Audiovisual Archive Day
FIAT/IFTA renews its call for all TV to be recorded on this year’s World Day For The Preservation Of The Audiovisual Heritage:
FIAT/IFTA is committed to the principle of making the contents of television archives as widely available as possible for study by the academic community. It is clear from academics that one of the things they would value most, would be the ability to study recordings of complete and uninterrupted days of output from the past and to compare the output of different broadcasters, both within and between nations. This is not the sort of material that has usually been preserved by broadcasters and only rarely by those few national archives which deal with television material.
FIAT/IFTA would thus like, once again, to use the occasion of the UNESCO World Day for the Preservation of the Audiovisual Heritage, to call upon broadcasters, national archives and academic institutions throughout the world to make plans to record, preserve and, wherever possible, make available for study, all television output from this year’s World Day, 27th October 2009.
It is clear that technical and resource issues make the recording ambition difficult, while copyright issues will complicate the ambition to make the material available for study, but we hope that as much as possible can be done. It is important that as much is recorded as possible, so that the resource will exist, and FIAT/IFTA urges broadcasters to co-operate with national archives and libraries or universities to make the material as widely available as possible. We also urge rightsholders and their representative organisations to consider how they can facilitate the ability of future scholars to access the material.
FIAT/IFTA itself will continue to act as a co-ordinating and information point for this ambitious project and we hope that more and more countries will be able to participate in future years, so that a regular record of television broadcasting can be preserved for future generations. We would like to hear from all members who recorded their output on 27th October 2008, as well as those who do so this year, in order to produce a register of resources.
The Television Studies Commission is also planning a Television Studies Seminar in Paris in May 2010, at which we hope studies of complete days of output will be presented.
For more information or to register interest or contribute ideas, please contact the FIAT/IFTA Television Studies Commission.
Steve Bryant
Chair, FIAT/IFTA Television Studies Commission
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