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On June 25-26 the University of New Caledonia in Nouméa hosted the 1st Joint Workshop of FIAT/IFTA and SEAPAVAA, the South-East Asian and Pacific Audiovisual Archives Association. The workshop brought together 23 archivists from 13 countries and was lead by FIAT/IFTA Preservation...

The FRAME courses are advanced courses for audiovisual archivists that come in three flavours: FRAME Tech is an annual, five day course in Paris focusing on technical aspects of digital and analog audiovisual archiving. FRAME Access has the same duration, but it switches cities...

On 23 and 24 May around 160 audiovisual archiving practitioners (archivists, media managers) as well as researchers, developers, journalists, producers and representatives of the media and software industry gathered in Stockholm’s Garnisonen Conference Centre for the 9th...

The second day of the 2019 FIAT/IFTA Media Management Seminar in Stockholm focused firstly on digital rights management. The first presentation – from Maartje Hülsenbeck of the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision (NISV) – gave an overview of the research that...

Archivists, media managers, strategists, developers, curators and researchers gathered today at the Garnisonen Conference Centre in the Stockholm city centre for the first day of the FIAT/IFTA Media Management Seminar 2019. The Seminar is the ninth in a series called...

The marvellous Belval campus of Luxembourg University hosted the 4th edition of the FIAT/IFTA Media Studies Seminars on March 14th, titled “1989: Mapping New Frontiers of Europe and Beyond.” Started in 1999 under the name ‘Television Studies Seminars’, the...

The FIAT/IFTA Media Management Seminar is an event that has built a very strong reputation in recent years. Organised by the FIAT/IFTA Media Management Commission, the Seminar focuses for two intensive days on themes related to media asset management, search and retrieval,...

As the world’s leading organisation of media archives FIAT/IFTA actively encourages and enhances the collaboration between research and archive communities. The FIAT/IFTA Media Studies Grant is one of our ways to ensure the valorisation of academic knowledge for archival...

Many media archivists struggle with copyright issues and intellectual property law in the broader sense. In particular, the uncertainty about this prevents them from quickly sharing archive material with potentially high social value online. Less experienced web editors or...

The FIAT/IFTA Media Management Seminar has built a very strong reputation in recent years. Organised by the FIAT/IFTA Media Management Commission, the Seminar focuses for two intensive days on themes related to media asset management, search and retrieval, enhancement and...