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AWARDS 2020: MEET THE WINNERS

Archive Achievement Awards 2020: meet the winners!

At the 2020 IASA – FIAT/IFTA Joint Conference held online the Archive Achievement Awards were attributed to three particularly interesting projects, outstanding archival initiatives that have improved significantly the ways in which the archives are preserved, managed and used.

The FIAT/IFTA Archive Achievement Awards yearly reward initiatives bringing the professional preservation and management of audiovisual archives to a higher level. The Archive Achievement Awards are developed by FIAT/IFTA, the international federation of television archives. Members of FIAT/IFTA can nominate their own organisation, or they can nominate a person or organisation with whom they have collaborated to bring the project to a successful end.

This Award rewards archival technology projects which have experimented, developed and implemented new and emerging media management technologies and tools to open up the archives in new and efficient ways. The jury report mentions:
“this project is a clever and inventive use of Media Management tools to manage multiple collections and owners, one that really leads the way in MAM (pronounced as the word mam) and archive provision for institutions who own varying sizes of AV collections, but lack the expertise to manage them.”


The 2020 FIAT/IFTA Excellence in Media Management Award is awarded to "DAAN Tenancy for the Dutch Parliament", by Arnoud Goos and Annelies Cordes, of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in the Netherlands.
The Excellence in Media Preservation Award aims to reward projects in the domain of analog or digital preservation, that have successfully developed and implemented a (part of the) preservation process that excels in professionality or innovation. The jury report tells:
“The project is a perfect example of a particularly rigorous application of the prevailing standards for the digitization of audio objects, combined with the smart use of new technologies. As a result, a rare quality and efficiency level is achieved. Moreover, the workflow is designed in such a way that immediate valorisation online becomes possible. This project is therefore an example for radio archives worldwide.”


The 2020 FIAT/IFTA Excellence in Media Preservation Award is awarded to RAI Teche XClope Project, by Danila Komar, of RAI in Italy.
The Excellence in Archival Use and Valorisation Award focuses on projects that have taken advantage of some or all aspects of archive collections in a digital environment (value assessment, storytelling, copyright and Intellectual Property issues, technology, ethics, user experiences, etc.) in order to increase awareness and grow of the value and use of audiovisual archives worldwide. The 2018 jury report read:
“the project has been created as a result of significant collaboration between INA departments, requiring expertise from collections management, technology, communications, research, finance, administrative, legal and rights teams. It proves the value that archives can add to the viewing experience by unlocking archive content for entertainment purposes. Its ambition, scale and audience reach potential are impressive.”


The 2020 FIAT/IFTA Excellence in Archival Use and Valorisation Award is awarded to Madelen by Antoine Bayet Antoine Bayet, Xavier Lemarchand, Pauline Baduel and Elodie Leleu of INA in France.
Since 2014 FIAT/IFTA every year also gives a special Lifetime Honorary Award to a person who has got special merits for FIAT/IFTA and for the field of audiovisual archiving as a whole. This year the jury honoured someone ...
"who entered the world of audiovisual archiving in the eighties, 38 years ago, as a documentalist at the national news broadcaster of her country.

She quickly rose to strategic policy and managerial positions where for the next decades she relentlessly advocated for the deplorable conditions of audiovisual archives in her country to change. By 1988 her work had already led to a 15 million euro funded program for addressing issues in the preservation and presentation of audiovisual archives in her country. She was one of the leading players in the formation of a centralised public broadcast archive in her country, and in the subsequent formation of a separate institution dedicated to this task. This institution is today one of the global leaders in our profession.

From the nineties onwards she advocated to exploit the opportunities for our sector, promised by digitisation. She also became ever more active in FIAT/IFTA: she was a co-founder of the FIAT/IFTA Media Management Seminars - which after 20 years have gained an indisputable status in the international community of media archivists - and she was the main driver behind the transformation of the Documentation Commission into the Media Management Commission in 2000. It is an excellent example of how she masters the fine art of anticipating evolution.

She also played a key role in the design of the digital archive and the implementation of digital preservation standards, not only at her archive, but in the audiovisual archiving domain as a whole. In 2016 this resulted in obtaining the Data Seal of Approval as the first audiovisual archive in the world, for the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.

But this special colleague is not only appreciated for her outstanding professional track record. She is also admired for her never ceasing urge to achieve the highest quality, simply because for her, anything else is not an option. She combines a sharp vision with unstoppable energy and an exceptional talent for explaining things as clear as crystal, both in written and in oral form.

On retiring this year she produced another distinctive and inspired publication entitled the The Agile AV Archive - Prestige and Identity in times of technological change – a fascinating reflection into the past and future status, role, function and the characteristics required of the profession she has nurtured, developed and studied throughout her career.

We in FIAT/IFTA, – and we’re certain that at Sound and Vision they share our opinion –can only hope that she stays around and continues to motivate and inspire us for years to come.

The FIAT/IFTA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020 goes to Annemieke de Jong.






FIAT/IFTA is humbled to award the 2020 Lifetime Honorary Award to Annemieke de Jong of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in the Netherlands.

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