The FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2015 in Vienna was a great success. From October 7th until October 10th, participants had a unique occasion to discuss and learn about the many challenges and innovations faced by archives in their quest towards the future. Different aspects of audiovisual collection’s life, use and potential value where presented and discussed, thus unveiling and discovering new ways of advancing and integrating their action in our digital society. So, from every point of view, the Vienna Conference was indeed “a bridge towards the future”.

Thanks to all our partners and sponsors

We want to thank all our partners and sponsors for co-creating the FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2015. Without the support of our partners Ericsson, Sony, Memnon, Avid, MediaGuru, Vintage Cloud, EVS, and our sponsors Deluxe, Oracle, RTI, NOA, Atos and VSN this conference would had not been possible. We hope to continue working together with all of you.

Program, presentations and pictures

The conference program offered a wide diversity of speakers in the plenary, workshops and sessions. On the FIAT/IFTA slideshare you can find almost all the presentations given during the Conference.
With the support of Brita Kettner and Astrid Drechsler from the Bauhaus University in Weimar and their dedicated and committed students of the Fachhochschule St. Pölten the FIAT/IFTA
Coverage was brought to a higher level. Their clips can be found atthis YouTube channel.
Stephan Schuetz made beautiful pictures during the conference which all can be found on the FIAT/IFTA Facebook page.

FIAT/IFTA Awards

The FIAT/IFTA Awards are annually granted to those who stand out in the crowd of digital archiving. This years winners were:

• Best Use of Archive – Five Destinies by Sofia Pinto Coelho (SIC-TV, Portugal) and The Carsony Brothers by Barbara Weissenbeck (Filmwerkstatt Wien, Austria)
• Most innovative use of Archive – Ander Nieuws by Brigitte Jansen (The Netherlands Institue for Sound of Vision, Netherlands)
• Best Archive preservation project – Patrimonial Assets Management Programme by Philippe Laurens (International Olympic Committee, Switzerland)

Through this link you can see the FIAT/IFTA Award show with all the nominees of the different categories.

As in past years, a special award was granted to Prof Dietrich Schüller for his pioneering thoughts and actions in Preservation and Digital Preservation. Director of the Phonogrammarchiv in Vienna from 1972 to 2008, Prof Schüller has strongly influenced the ethics of preservation and defended quality as a main concern for content keepers.

FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2016 Warsaw

FIAT/IFTA is pleased to announce that the 2016 World Conference will be hosted in the beautiful city of Warsaw by the National Audiovisual Institute of Poland, NInA. An attractive promotion clip was made.