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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...

The programme committee of the 2018 World Conference is also proud to announce the conference programme. We compiled a programme about the most challenging topics of contemporary media archiving, featuring no less than 80 speakers coming from 23 countries. The schedule features...

Registrations are open for the 2018 World Conference of FIAT/IFTA, hosted by RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana at Palazzo Labia in Venice from 9 to 12 October. All information about the conference can be found via the conference website. It will tell you more abou...

2018 is the European year of Cultural Heritage. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) will participate in the celebrations by bringing together public broadcasting archives specialists and European policy makers at an event on September 25th at the Brussels Cinematek. As an...

The Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA) brings together representatives of all major associations in the field of audiovisual archiving. Chairs and other representatives meet each other on an annual basis at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, this...

One of FIAT/IFTA’s main goals is to contribute to the professionalisation of the field of audiovisual archiving. One of the ways to do so is our long standing partnership with INA, the French national audiovisual archive, in the organisation of FRAME, an advanced training...

From the Netherlands tragic news has reached us recently about the passing away of Ingrid Veenstra. As an experienced archives manager at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Ingrid was also an active member of the FIAT/IFTA Media Management Commission up until a few...

As a founding member of the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA), FIAT/IFTA held the Chair of CCAAA for the past two years. Since December 31st FIAT/IFTA’s president Bríd Dooley as a part of CCAAA’s rotating presidency handed over the...