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What is the status of cloud storage in television archives? How big is the share of media archives worldwide embarking on a streetcar named AI? To which extent could media archivists continue their work from home during the covid19 crisis? How far are media archives worldwide...

Since 2014 FIAT/IFTA every year gives a special Lifetime Honorary Award to a person who has special merits for FIAT/IFTA and for the field of audiovisual archiving as a whole. Normally the Award, a special FIAT/IFTA Cube, is presented at the end of the annual Gala Dinner and...

Barely a few months after the 2020 FIAT/IFTA and IASA Joint Conference, preparations are underway for the 45th FIAT/IFTA World Conference, which will take place in Cape Town, South Africa. In consultation with the South African Communication Industries Association (SACIA), the...

On 29 – 30 September last the FIAT/IFTA Regional Latin American Seminar took place online. Scheduled to take place initially in São Paulo in March, the Seminar was postponed due to the outbreak of the corona crisis. “Audiovisual Archives in Latin America: Access, Value and...

Audiovisual archives worldwide are in the process of migrating their audio and video materials to large scale file based storage systems. Analogue material is digitized and digital material is converted into files when necessary and transferred to a large-scale storage...

If you’re considering to become a FIAT/IFTA member, you might want a full overview of our organisation and what’s in it for you. We have compiled a new Membership Brochure, the ideal way to get informed and to know what the next steps are, if your archive would like...

The FIAT/IFTA Archive Achievement Awards are designed to honor outstanding archival initiatives and projects that have improved significantly the ways in which the archives are preserved, managed and used. At the IASA – FIAT/IFTA Joint Conference 2020 thi...

      At the General Assembly on 27 October 2020 the Full Members of FIAT/IFTA have elected Brecht Declercq (meemoo, Belgium) as the new FIAT/IFTA President for the next two years. Brecht DECLERCQ (1981) is the Digitisation and Acquisition Manager at meemoo – The...

On 23 October the FIAT/IFTA Executive Council met for the last time in its current composition. The mandate of the current President Bríd Dooley (RTÉ) comes to an end, together with that of six Executive Council members.   The Council thanked the outgoing President for her...

As announced on 18 July, the next FIAT/IFTA General Assembly will be organised on 27 October, 15.00 – 17.30 GMT, following the rules as set by the Statutes of FIAT/IFTA. The deadline to submit candidatures for the Presidency and the Executive Council via email is on Monday,...