To help and inspire our members, wherever they are on the timeline

BECOME A MEMBER

Associate Member
€ 500 / € 200

Associated Members may be organisations or individuals and only have the right to receive the regular communications and publications issued by the Association as well as to participate in the meetings.

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Full Member
€ 850

Full Members must be Broadcast Archive Services, maintaining archives of their own programmes, or those authorised by broadcast organisations or national governments to maintain archives of broadcasted programmes.

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Supporting Member
€ 1.110

Supporting Members are organisations related to the television and radio industries who wish to express their support of broadcast archives by way of an annual donation in excess of the fees for Full Members.

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The work of FIAT/IFTA in its capacity as an international forum of information and experts for modern media organisations and a bridge between a variety of media professionals has led to a significant improvement in the co-operation between national media and broadcasting archives.

 

The benefits our members enjoy

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Benefit from established, consistent international standards of professional media archive management activities e.g. the FIAT Guidelines for Selection for acquisition and preservation ;Key metadata fields
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Learn from other professional media archive managers experience captured in FIAT publications e.g. the FIAT/IFTA Guidelines on use/misuse of archive materials
3
Work with others addressing common challenges eg understanding the implication of Intellectual Property Rights
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Benefit from being part of a larger lobby group for the improvement of the international and national status of media archives
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Hear about practical management experience of fellow professionals approaching and working in the digital domain
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Improve the abilities of your workforce by reciprocal training opportunities with other similar archives or the FIAT/FOCAL Summer school
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Share challenges of funding for vital archive preservation
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Identify joint opportunities to exploit the potential of your archives
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See potential business opportunities of working with other archives
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Gain partnerships for capital and resource intensive projects
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Influence international professional standard setting
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Gain useful comparative data of holdings, budgets, working practices, etc.
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Share the experiences of other professionals working with equipment & solution providers
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Learn about the range of different archive public access provisions
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Gain from professional links with other leading media organisations eg FOCAL, AMIA, IASA,FIAF, IFLA, ICA
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Attend moderately priced local and international media archive conferences
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Win the international acclaim of a FIAT/IFTA Archive Achievement Award

Procedure

In order to become a member, it is necessary to apply for membership and to accept the Statutes in force. The applications are submitted to the decision of FIAT/IFTA's Executive Council, which will also decide whether the membership category under which the application was filed, was the appropriate one. The applicant will then receive an invoice, but he will become a member after his payment is received. His membership will be confirmed by letter or e-mail and he will receive the passwords for the website. As from 1st April 2003, all new members will pay a pro rata sum when they join, according to the time of the year. For instance, if they join after March, they will pay 75% of the yearly rate, after June 50% and after September 25%.
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