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AWARDS 2019: MEET THE WINNERS

Archive Achievement Awards 2019: meet the winners!

At the 2019 FIAT/IFTA World Conference in Dubrovnik 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 is a brilliant technology application integrating mature emerging tech into a production ready system. It’s iterative, end to end and flexible to improvement. It reduces manual working and adds value to past content in the archive. The jury were particularly impressed it’s an open source tool and the willingness of the project team to share their knowledge and experience.”


The 2019 FIAT/IFTA Excellence in Media Management Award is awarded to "AI at the Service of the Archives", by Pietro Rezzonico, of RTS in Switzerland.
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:
“a project that implements actual accessibility to information that is very useful for non-specialists of preservation, and for being, right now, a source of inspiration to the action of FIAT/IFTA.”


The 2019 FIAT/IFTA Excellence in Media Preservation Award is awarded to KnowYourCarrier.com, by Marlies Criel, of VIAA in Belgium.
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:
“proves that the value of an archive lays in a coordinated and focused integration of its various processes - from preservation to accessibility and creative collaborations. All with an aim to explain the relevant past using contemporarily appealing means.”


The 2019 FIAT/IFTA Excellence in Archival Use and Valorisation Award is awarded to "1968 TV Guide" by Jakub Hosek and Jakub Adamus from Ceske Televize, Czech Republic.
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 a man ...
"... who’s career started in 1975. In fact his career in audiovisual archiving started thanks to a small coincidence. He had applied at two organisations, but the institution he has worked for for the rest of his life was the quickest to reply to his application.

The first three years of his career he focused on training young professionals. He discovered that he liked it and he would keep on doing it for the rest of his professional life, and he does it until today. Literally hundreds of students have been in his classroom and will acknowledge the thoroughness of his teaching. You can imagine the impact he has had on a whole generation of audiovisual archivists worldwide.

In the eighties and nineties, the man we honour tonight was a privileged witness of how digital image and sound conquered media production. But the last 15 years of his career were entirely dedicated to the archives. From the late nineties he was the main driver behind one of the earliest and probably also the largest audiovisual digitisation and preservation plans in the world. From his working place in France, but also all over the world, he provided decisive input for uncountable trainings, collection assessments, digitisation plans, European research projects and so on. One can clearly recognize his influence in audiovisual archives from Cuba via South Africa and Madagascar, up until Cambodia.

But this man is not only appreciated because of his unmeasurable knowledge and professionalism. He is also a warm personality, a true gentleman, and a very welcome guest on a long series of FIAT/IFTA conferences, where his presentations were always of an exceptionally high quality. We honour this man because he has strived for quality with unwavering force, because he constantly conveyed this mindset to the ones who surrounded him and because he has always done so with great kindness and modesty."




FIAT/IFTA is humbled to hand over this Lifetime Honorary Award to mr. Jean VARRA of INA, France.

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