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The Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) is an international scientific and technical event dealing with matters of particular importance to audiovisual archives and archivists. Organized every few years since 1983 by the member organizations now forming the Coordinating Council of...

The FIAT/IFTA Media Studies Commission announces its forthcoming international seminar ‘1989: Mapping New Frontiers of Europe and Beyond’ Taking place in Luxembourg on 14 March 2019, organised in collaboration with the Centre for Digital and Contemporary History of the University...

In 2020 the city of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, will be the scene of celebrations and a magnificent exhibition in remembrance of 100 years of the Salzburg Festival. The Austrian public broadcaster and long standing FIAT/IFTA member ORF is a partner of...

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,...

The FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2018 in Venice brought together no less than 265 audiovisual archivists from more than 40 countries. With more than 60 presentations, by more than 85 speakers from 25 countries, the conference proved once again to be the forum par excellence for...

How many television archives already store their files in the cloud? Or why do they choose not to? How far has the digitisation of audiovisual archives worldwide already progressed? How many archives already use automatic metadata annotation methods? Every year FIAT/IFTA...

On 8 and 9 June 2017 the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) and Radiotelevisione Svizzera Italiana (RSI) together hosted in Lugano, Switzerland, the 8th part in the FIAT/IFTA Media Management Seminar series jointly titled “Changing sceneries, changing roles.” This time the...

At the General Assembly in Venice, the FIAT/IFTA members re-elected Bríd Dooley as the FIAT/IFTA President for the next 2 years. Next to this re-election, the members also have chosen 6 new members of the Executive Council: Virginia Bazán Gil of RTVE in Spain Brecht Declercq of...

The 2018 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage takes place on 27 October. FIAT/IFTA is an active member of the Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA), who organises the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. The World Day for Audiovisual Heritage has become...

Television archives worldwide are in constant transformation. To monitor this transformation FIAT/IFTA organises every year a very short multiple choice survey, with questions about preservation formats and content management systems in use at your archive, access to your...