FIAT/IFTA » Speakers World Conference 2016

Agterberg, Bas
Bas Agterberg is Media Historian at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. He participates in research projects with universities, archives and academic networks. Results of these research projects are presented in journals and at (film) festivals, seminars and exhibitions.

Arkel, Karin van
Karin van Arkel is coordinator Ingest at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. In this role she coordinates several Media Management projects and manages the relation between the archive and production environment to increase metadata quality.

Media Management – a love affair between production and automatically generated metadata
The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision implemented Media Management to increase findability with minimal manual effort after ingest. In this presentation we will introduce the next steps by showing how production metadata and automatically generated metadata can reinforce each other.

Barber, Sian
Dr Sian Barber is a lectuer in Film Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. She has published on British cinema and cinemegoing, as well as cenorship of cinema and the work of the British Board of Film Classification. She is the author of Censoring the 1970s: the BBFC and the Decade that Taste Forgot (2011), The British Film industry in the 1970s: Capital Culture and Creativity (2013) and Using Film as a Source (2015). Sian has been a member of the EUscreen consortium since 2010.

The FIAT/IFTA Studies Grant: Discovering Film on Television: fragments from the RTÉ Archives
Using the archives of the Irish National Broadcaster RTE, this presentation explores how discussions about film and cinema culture were showcased on the newer medium of television. Focusing on the first four years of its broadcast, this presentation also explores how such critical and historical insights can be constructed and the challenges which exist when using fragments of visual and written sources.

Bauer, Christoph
Christoph Bauer is System-Administrator and Project-Manager at the Multimedia-Archive of ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corp.) Being a film and audio specialist for digitization and restoration he is project-manager for developing preservation and migration workflows and projects and system-administrator for those projects as well. In addition he is currently General Secretary of the MAA (Media-Archives-Austria) and also acting as consultant at and for EBU/UER in the field of Archiving and Preservation.

Migration is way more than mere Digitisation
Highlighting some of the most important sub-processes in a successful AV-migration process like selection and quality control, the presentation will give close insight on the experiences and lessons learnt during the first year of ORFs mass-migration project. Also presented is the real success-factor ensuring internal acceptance: immediate utilization of the migrated content, achieved by close cooperation with production units during selection and by ensuring correct content metadata as a result of the migration process

Blom, Ruurd
Ruurd Blom is a media manager Collection Access. He has been at Sound and Vision since 2003. Ruurd is responsible for the workflows related to the use of the CC-by-SA license and Public Domain marks. He has been trained by the Wikimedia foundation and knows the collections of Sound and Vision quite well.

Taking Open Accessibility to the next level: Open collections for professional reuse
The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision has experimented with open access to the audiovisual collection since 2012.The benefits of open access for visibility and reuse (a CC-by-SA license is used) for the long tail of archival content are evident. However, due to the separated workflow and metadata, the creative commons licenses have so far not been promoted for professional reuse purposes. In 2016 we took the leap and have started to promote these licenses on a small scale for professional users. We have encountered many questions and challenges and will report about the findings so far.

Cariani, Karen
Karen Cariani is Senior Director of the WGBH Media Library and Archives and WGBH Project Director for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. She has directed many WGBH digital library initiatives such as WGBH Open Vault, and Boston Local TV News and building an open source digital preservation system.

The Potential of Using Computational Linguistics Tools to Automate Metadata Creation and Enable Discovery
Computational tools are improving with the recognition of speech to text, images, audio and archives could utilize these tools to help automate the cataloguing of their digital files. This presentation will discuss and demonstrate results from use of Natural Language Processing tools such as named entity recognition and Audio Wave Form analysis to enhance media archives discoverability.

Ceracci, Maria Gabriella
Maria Gabriella Ceracchi is Supervision of documentation programmes in RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana.
Supervision of the documentation of television musical products: Operas, Symphony concerts, Chamber music concerts, Early music concerts and Pop music events, and definition of criteria for metadata related to these.

Documentation system of RAI Audiovisual programme
We would like to show how we have realized the normalization of metadata according to international standards using new unified layout for the documentation of different materials TV, Radio and Music for historical archive and current programmes, thereby making the elements that constitute a programme easily searchable. We will examine the differnts aspects related to the costs, the automatic quality control of the documentation envisaged by the agreements, the timing the documentation delivery , the services levels required, the relationship between the number documentalist and the documented hours and the integration with other internal systens RAI.

Chan, Adrian
Adrian Chan is the Assistant Director overseeing the Sound and Moving Image Lab (SMIL) at the National Archives of Singapore (NAS). He manages the conservation, preservation, migration and archival of analogue and digital audio-visual records for Audio Visual Archives, Oral History Centre and the National Library.

Hierarchical storage and managing digital media assets for the Libraries & Archives of the Future
The Sound and Moving Image Laboratory (SMIL) is the centre of excellence in Singapore which conserves, digitises and preserves audio-visual recordings for NLB. The hierarchical storage strategy was implemented to effectively and efficiently manage the audio-visual contents. Ingest & QC systems were set up to migrate digital AV files in SD, HD, 2K and 4K formats to ensure that nothing is lost to technological obsolescence.

Couteux, Anne
Anne Couteux is a project manager at the French National Audiovisual Institute (INA). She works in the department in charge of the thesaurus and of the standards of content description of Ina’s multimedia archives. She is currently involved in the team elaborating a new documentary IT and data model for Ina’s collections.

Data management at the French National Audiovisual Institute
Presentation of a project of a new information system aiming at a better management of descriptive metadata allowing the development of new uses for INA’s audiovisual archives.

Davis, Casey
Casey E. Davis is Senior Project Manager for the WGBH Media Library and Archives and Project Manager for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting at WGBH. Her roles include strategizing methods for maximizing access to WGBH and AAPB’s archival resources, managing grants, partner collaboration, and outreach.

Declercq, Brecht
Brecht Declercq, MA, MSc (°1981) is the Digitization and Acquisition Manager at VIAA, the national audiovisual archive of Flanders, Belgium, since 2013. As such he is responsible for the overall digitization strategy of the Flemish audiovisual heritage. He’s an active voice in the international audiovisual archives world, current Chair of the FIAT/IFTA Preservation and Migration Commission and Member of the FIAT/IFTA Executive Council.

The FIAT/IFTA Timeline: results of the 2016 edition
FIAT/IFTA monitors the constant transition of television archives worldwide by five short multiple choice questions: about preservation formats, content management systems, access, metadata creation and the connection with the audience. This presentation will show the results of the 2016 edition and point to some remarkable evolutions.

Delabie, Florian
Florian Delabie is archivist and records manager at RTBF (Belgium).
As part of the “Information Management and Archives” department, he is involved in many projects to improve metadata quality and enhance archive accessibility.

ARCHIMED, improving archives accessibility through metadata
Archives accessibility is a real labyrinth for the end user who have to use different software tools to be able to access relevant content and use it. Archimed want to solve those problems,presenting a single interface to browse through the archives.

Dooley, Brìd
Bríd Dooley is an Irish media archive professional with over 30 years of experience in the Broadcasting archive sector in Ireland and the UK. She leads the moving image, audio, photographic & document archives of the National Public service broadcaster, RTÉ, in her current role as Head of Archives and as a member of the senior management team in digital.
She is an active member of FIAT/IFTA since 2003, and was General Secretary from 2008-2012. She brought the World Conference to Dublin in 2010, was re-elected as a member of the Executive council in 2014, and appointed Chair of the Save Your Archive Program in 2014. In 2016 she successfully created and brought the first joint conference on the theme of AV Archives at Risk to Dublin, with leading members of the world AV associations umbrella group, the CCAAA.

The Save Your Archive initiative and Archives at Risk
mobilizing the global community towards greater cooperation and urgency of action.
The FIAT/IFTA Save Your Archive program is now in its fourth year and in that time has been instrumental in safeguarding and supporting a number of valuable collections, renewing the debate and raising awareness of the major support and funding issues facing much of the world’s audiovisual archives today.
Brid Dooley (RTÉ) and Jean-Gabriel Minel (Ina) will showcase the Save Your Archive Program selected projects and achievements to date and along with an invited panel will discuss the findings an agreed actions of the hugely successful Archives at Risk Conference 2016 in Dublin. They will also share the next important steps the SYA Program will take in furthering cooperation and actions in this field.

Drabczyk, Maria
Project manager at National Audiovisual Institute in charge of international cooperations; Maria is EUscreen Foundation Board member and member of the Audiovisual Media in Europeana Task Force. Sociologist by training, practitioner in cultural diplomacy by choice.

PrestoCentre, EUscreen and Europeana; what will the digital landscape of audiovisual archives look like by 2020?
We will review the PrestoCentre (Johan Oomen/Aubéry Escande) and EUscreen (Maria Drabczyk) challenges and how they’ve integrated a shifting landscape to re-think their respective developments. We will also recap on the collaboration of those services with Europeana – the European Commission funded platform and service for online cultural heritage access – through the “Audiovisual Media in Europeana” Task Force (Marco Rendina). And we will collectively aim at identifying what the digital landscape of audiovisual archives will look like by 2020.

Escande, Aubéry
Head of Europeana Network; Aubéry is responsible for Europeana Network Association, Network Communication, Europeana Pro platform and Events. Aubéry is also PrestoCentre coordinator. He is a member of the Audiovisual Media in Europeana Task Force.

Fairall, Charles
Charles has worked at the BFI for 30 years and as Head of Conservation has primary responsibility for leading the technical teams to preserve and make accessible the extensive moving image collections which constitute the BFI National Archive. Significant recent projects that Charles has contributed to include: creation of the BFI Master Film Store and transformation of the archive’s operations to meet the challenges of a digital world. Charles is currently heavily involved in the implementation of the BFI’s Unlocking Film Heritage project, leading initiatives to further enhance the archive’s digital capabilities and preservation infrastructures.

Digital preservation infrastructure: providing new of opportunities for preservation, access and beyond
The presentation will retrace the steps and decisions an archive had to take, using the tools and understanding of the time, to enter and embrace the digital reality of a new millennium and project it’s collections towards an exciting yet largely unknown horizon. We will then go on to examine the importance of creating a systematic, automated and standards-driven approach for managing multi-platform audio visual collections, to improve user experience and encourage greater use, balancing both analogue and digital demands in the diverse and somewhat unpredictable high access volume environment of a national archive.

Feustle, Maristella
Maristella Feustle is the Music Special Collections Librarian at the University of North Texas. She oversees the processing and curation of over 100 special collections in the UNT Music Library, and is the chair of the Preservation Committee of the Music Library Association. Her research interests include jazz history, digital humanities, and music in public diplomacy.

The more you find, the more you find: Hidden broadcast collections and the challenge of preservation
The broadcast recordings in the University of North Texas Music Library’s Willis Conover Collection offer a case study in small projects as catalysts for larger ones as one discovery leads to another, forming a “treasure map” of hidden and obscured collections across the United States, and spurring collaboration across institutions.

Filiciak, Miroslaw
Miroslaw Filiciak is the director of Institute for Cultural Studies at University of Social Sciences and Humanities SWPS. He published one of the first Polish game studies books (“Wirtualny plac zabaw”, 2006), and edited game studies anthology (“Światy z pikseli”, 2010). Recently he works on the project devoted to the strategies of collecting, restoring and simulating old technical media, using the case of pinball community.

Firmhofer, Robert
Robert Firmhofer, CEO at the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw, Poland – promotor and facilitator of modern scientific communication and international scientific cooperation. An expert in numerous international advisory groups.

Hagger, Joachim
Joachim Hagger is CEO of 4Quant (4quant.com), a spin-off company of ETH Zurich. In the field of image analytics, 4Quant disrupts the way videos and images are analyzed and interpreted by leveraging artificial intelligence and big data analytics on vast amounts of imaging data. This allows for significantly better feature detection, huge efficiency gains in finding anomalies and tagging, and machine learning methodologies for problems difficult to describe.

Hauberg, Anja
DRK -Commissioning editor
DR -Editor in chief of various TV documentaries. Graduated Open University of Copenhagen
TV history, film and media analysis & Film history.

Hayama, Natsuko
Natsuko Hayama is TV director at NHK enterprises, inc.
Have worked on documentary current affairs such as Tsunami and earth quakes in 2011. Some other projects are about food which is strong personal interests.

Hedman, Anna Elisa
AnnaElisa Hedman is a metadata editor at SVT, the Swedish broadcasting company since 2008 and 2012 respectively, AnnaElisa has a degree in archival science and film studies. She currently works with the statistic for the company’s public service reports and other statistical inquiries regarding the programme content, as well as quality control of metadata and tag coordination.

At SVT the metadata team have a new responsibility for the statistics of the range of content for the SVT public service report, they constitute a team where they combine their roles and responsibilities forming a base where the control of content marking and metadata structures enables a widespread use of SVT metadata – from statistics to tags at SVT Play. This shows how metadata specialists and standardized metadata can be used in the company more efficiently and in a larger capacity far beyond the traditional role of the archivist and the archive metadata.

Holownia, Olga
IIPC Programme and Communications Officer, based at the British Library. Olga manages the communications and provides support to the programmes of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (netpreserve.org). Her key projects include the organization of the annual IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference as well as associated training and events.

Jacques-Jourion, Xavier
Xavier Jacques-Jourion is Head of Information Management and Archives at RTBF, the Belgian French-speaking public broadcaster. Xavier holds an MBA, is an AIIM Certified Information Professional, member of the FIAT/IFTA Media Management Commission, and teaches Digital Archiving at the Haute Ecole Libre de Bruxelles.

Kastedt, Anna
Anna Kåstedt is a metadata editor at SVT, the Swedish broadcasting company since 2008 and 2012 respectively, Anna has a degree in cultural studies and library and information science. She currently works with the statistic for the company’s public service reports and other statistical inquiries regarding the programme content, as well as quality control of metadata and tag coordination.

Kibaara, Susan
Susan Wambui Kibaara is the Head, County Records Management at Kenya’s Nairobi City County Government. She is in-charge of all Records Management activities in the County. She initiates and implements records management projects in the County and also ensures quality management of the same.

Preserving Nairobi heritage through audio visual archiving: The UNH Project
The Unlocking Nairobi Heritage (UNH) project is aimed at preserving the audio visual collections housed at the Nairobi county Government offices. Eventually, the collections will be availed to the public and researchers through online exhibitions at the county website as well as from the county offices.

Kishi, Kensuke
Kensuke Kishi is a TV director at NHK(Nippon Hoso Kyokai) for almost 30 years.
Have made award winning documentaries on history and art, also Kishi is modern artist himself.

Knetig, Alexander
Alexander Knetig is editor in chief of ARTE Creative, the young cultural platform of the European broadcaster ARTE. With his team, he manages the production of fiction, documentary and magazine formats for the digital properties of ARTE and fort he integrate media, as well as the production of videogames. Before joining ARTE GEIE in Strasbourg, he used to work as editor in chief of the web department of ARTE France in Paris, where he got involved in some of the channel most award winning interactive programs (f.e.: the webdocs Prison Valley, Fort McMoney and Do not track; as well as the videogame Type:Rider). Alexander Knetig also teaches interactive storytelling and journalism in France and Germany and is a founding member of the Austrian board for new film formats of the Ministry of Culture.

How can audiovisual creation exist in a totally fragmented world?
During the last 15 years, the digital revolution has disrupted forever the relationship between content creators and content consumers. How can a “classical” TV station react? How can we defend our vision of author’s documentaries in 2 minutes short videos on Facebook? How can we develop fictional storytelling in VR? How can we produce art in video games? And how can we preserve all those creations in the fragmented meta medium the internet has become? Based on concrete examples from the production of the European cultural channel ARTE, this keynote does not pretend to give answers. It wants to engage a conversation.

Kołacz, Agata
Project leader of the Warsaw edition of FIAT/IFTA Conference is the coordinator of International Affairs at the Polish National Audiovisual Institute (NInA), public cultural institution established to digitize, disseminate and promote the Polish audiovisual heritage. She is in charge of collaborations with international partners and networks, as well for the development of NInA Beta Version Festival. Her biggest interest is digital culture and audience engagement via new medias. Before joining NInA she worked as culture manager in frame of production PR for various culture oriented NGO’s and initiatives such as Art Stations Foundation by Grażyna Kulczyk, Malta Festival Poznań or Enter Music Festival.

Kosowski, Andrzej
Director of the Institute of Music and Dance in Warsaw. A graduate of the Academy of Music in Cracow and the European Mozart Academy. In 1996–2012, he worked in the PWM Edition (Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne SA), serving as editor in chief since 2001. The creator and director of six editions of the Festival of Polish Music in Cracow (2005–2010). In 2013 he was the Minister’s plenipotentiary for Witold Lutosławski Year, and in 2014, the coordinator of the Oskar Kolberg Year.

A presentation of the School Musicotheque publicly available education website published by NiNA since 2012 and ORKIESTROWNIK (THE ORCHESTRATOR), a modern, innovative mobile application to guide you through the world of classical music.

Kwiecińska, Agata
Editor-in-chief of the School Musicotheque at the National Audiovisual Institute, musical journalist specializing in classical music, associated with the Polish Radio where she hosts her own show, Five O’Clock. Graduate of the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of Law and Administration and Institute of Musicology.

Lyons, Rossa
Rossa Lyons is the Manager TV Broadcast Archive & Film Archive at Ireland’s Public Broadcaster, Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). Rossa has been working in the archives of RTÉ for the last 38 years and in addition to managing the various archive services provided for TV, News and Sports programming, he is currently leading the projects for digitising selected collections of Tape and Film.

Strategic value of a first project to digitise analogue collections
RTÉ are currently engaged in their first ever digitisation project and the learnings gained from the challenges we are encountering will guide our future strategy towards the preservation and digitisation of our vast legacy of analogue collections on film and tape. In the absence of a dedicated Digital Media Asset Management System, we worked closely with our digitisation partners and our internal IT staff to overcome the challenges and workflows involved in integrating with RTÉ’s internal digital infrastructure.

Magalhaes, Filipa
PhD Candidate – FCT Fellow at CESEM-FCSH/NOVA, Lisbon, Portugal. Interests: the preservation of mixed music, including recordings on magnetic tape, searching for new methodologies to study these works in a musicological context.

New methodologies to preserve mixed music works: The case of Contança Capdeville
This communication presents the case of Constança Capdeville. She has composed significant works in the context of mixed music, including recordings on tape, whose performance is currently endangered and in need to be preserved.

Manders, Tim
Tim Manders is part of the Optimisation team at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, specialized in innovating ingest and access metadata processes. He oversees all Media Management projects and is a member of the FIAT/IFTA Media Management Commission.

Martin, Camille
Camille Martin is preservation and digitization projects manager at Ina, in the technical department. She coordinates technical processes for Ina partner’s collections (production companies, broadcasters, museums, institutions, etc.).

13-Novembre program – Collecting individual and collective memory
13-Novembre” is a transdisciplinary research program planned over 12 years whose objective is the study of the construction and evolution of memory after 11/13 attacks with a focus on the link between individual memory and collective memory. The program aims also at preserving and transmitting memory of these attacks.

Mäusli, Theo
Theo Mäusli published numerous books and articles on popular culture history, radio/television history and audio-visual social memory. 2002-2014 his main activities are as responsible in the archives RSI (Radiotelevisione Svizzera). Actually he leads a SRG SSR-wide Task Force for the implementation of Archive strategies. Mäusli is an active member of FIAT/IFTA (B&P, Save Your Archive) and teaches Digital Archiving and Radio history at Università della Svizzera italiana.

Which technical innovations are useful for media archives?
The use of innovative technologies in MAM’s is always quite modest, mostly because they are not easily to be financed by clear and true business use. Discussing with innovative researchers and suppliers of algorithms we have experienced that both parts, archive professionals and technicians, can learn a lot from each other and conduct developments in promising win-win directions with concrete business application.

Merczyński, Michał
The director of the National Audiovisual Institute of Poland (NInA) – an institution created by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Cultural manager, producer, originator of multiple artistic events. In 2011 he was the head of the Cultural Programme of the Polish EU Presidency, as well as the European Culture Congress. The founder and director of the Poznań Malta Festival (since 1991) and Nostalgia Festival (since 2007), he has also headed the Wieniawski Music Society in Poznań (1997–2002), Rozmaitości Theater in Warsaw (2002–2005) and the Polish Film Institute (2005).

Metta, Sabino
Dr Sabino Metta, graduated in Physics (2004) at University of Torino and with PhD in Methods and Technologies in Environmental Monitoring at University of Basilicata (2008). Since 2011, he has been working for RAI – Centre for Research and Technological Innovation (RAI-CRIT) in the research area concerning automated analysis and management of multimedia information. He’s been working in the standardization process of MPEG 21 UD and MPEG 7 CDVS/CDVA. Currently, he is involved in technical aspects related to Data Journalism activities.

Data – driven journalism
Journalism is changing and the “Data Journalism” is becoming part of the common practise. Broadcasters are faced with new opportunities and challenges introduced by this new paradigm. RAI is attempting to design and implement an integrated platform supporting the new workflow.

Miąsik, Maciej
Maciej Miąsik is a Polish game industry veteran, producer, designer, programmer, working currently on the game Beat Cop. Known for working on the first Witcher game and many others including first commercial polish PC titles.

Müller, Jan
Jan Müller is CEO at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, the national audiovisual archive and media museum of the Netherlands and is the president of FIAT/IFTA and Presto Centre (a competence centre for the digital domain). He is also chairman of the Dutch Media Literacy program, the Dutch National Coalition for Digital Preservation and Sustainability and member of the Council of the Polish National Audiovisual Institute.

Minel, Jean-Gabriel
Jean-Gabriel was appointed Head of Innovation and Research & Development in October 2016 and has been working for the French National Audiovisual Institute (INA) since 2003. He worked previously for a public bank (Caisse des Dépôts) as Investment Officer, in charge of assessment of digitization and cultural projects (cinema, audiovisual, museum, and library). He also contributed to the establishment of one large network for the modernization and development of the French territories (Cyber-base). Expert in the economics of digital content and services developed by cultural industry and institutions, Jean-Gabriel also assists entrepreneurs in search of useful and meaningful advice.

Mussou, Claude
Claude Mussou, head of InaTHEQUE, Ina. After 7 years of responsibilities as head of the Web archiving team at Ina, Claude was appointed head of InaTHEQUE in 2015. InaTHEQUE is Ina’s department which makes all collections available on sites for research and academic purposes.

Mustata, Dana
Dr. Dana Mustata is Assistant Professor in Television Studies at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She has worked as a researcher on European projects, such as Video Active and EUscreen. She is managing editor of VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, co-founder and coordinator of the European (Post)Socialist Television History Network and principal investigator on the research project ‘Everyday Matters: Material Historiographies of Television in Cold War Contexts’.

Between the Digital and the Analogue: Challenges of Big Data for the Archival and Academic Communities
This workshop puts on the table for discussion the challenges that the ‘digital turn’ in making archival data available and accessible has posed for both archivists and academics.

Ners, Agata
Agata is a public policy and government relations senior analyst for Central and Eastern Europe at Google where she is working with creators, educators, cultural institutions and non government entities on the topics related to digital strategies. Previously to join Google she coordinated international relations at the National Audiovisual Institute of Poland. Agata is a graduate in cultural studies both from the University of Warsaw and Universite Paris IV la Sorbonne with a Masters degree.

Njoroge, Mary
Mary Njoroge is a Chief Archivist at Kenya National Archives. She is in-charge of the management of the Audio Visual archives in the custody of the national archives. She is also involved in the digitization of audio visual collections documenting the Kenyan heritage.

Oomen, Johan
Johan Oomen is head of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision R&D Department (20 FTE) and researcher at the Web and Media group of the VU University Amsterdam. He’s elected board member of the Europeana Association, EUscreen Foundation and of CLICKNL, the innovation catalyst for the Dutch Creative Industries. Oomen and his group are working on research projects (Horizon 2020, ICTPSP, national) that focus on providing durable access to digital heritage on the Web.

Paciarelli, Dorota
Culture manager, film producer, screenplay and co-production consultant. Many years in leading positions in Polish cultural diplomacy and film industry, Dorota Paciarelli pays particular attention to the promotion of Polish culture and artistic work of Krzysztof Kieslowski in other countries. Since 2016 she`s also artistic director of the Sokołowsko Film Festival (SFF) Hommage à Kieslowski, an unique film event organized by the Foundation In Situ since 2011.

Krzysztof Kieslowski Archive or how to keep digital memories for future generations
Krzysztof Kieslowski Archive has being created on the initiative of Contemporary Art Foundation In Situ with the courtesy of Maria Kieślowska. It contain the primary sources documents (2305 objects) from the private accumulation, provided by the artist`s family members and his friends. The unique collection consists mainly of photographs, screenplays, jottings, notes, recordings, private audio-visual material. The Archive is public and affiliated with the Foundation In Situ since 2011. The ongoing digitalization (300 objects) was possible with the financial support of NiNA and Ministery of Culture and National Heritage. The Archive is located in Sokołowsko, where Krzysztof Kieślowski family lived between 1951 – 1959.

Pehlivan, Zeynep
Zeynep Pehlivan is a R&D engineer at Ina (French National Audiovisual Institute). She received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris VI) in 2013. Her research focuses on access methods to web archives and their optimization.

Creating a trading zone around Twitter archives. Case study: Paris attacks
Mrs. Zeynep Pehlivan (Ina) and Valérie Schafer (Cnrs) will present the interdisciplinary research project ASAP which aims to document the archiving of Twitter during the Paris attacks, to question the conditions and possibilities of building corpora, and to bring out the first elements which can emerge from these massive data. They will explain how both challenges were addressed: preserving unusual contents and why the researchers felt the need to enter the black box of the Twitter archiving process; and the preliminary results of the Twitter archive analysis obtained by using a user interface that was purposely developed by Ina.

Peschanski, Denis
Denis Peschanski is senior research associate at CNRS (directeur de recherche), Center for Twentieth-Century Social History (Paris, Sorbonne). Specialist in history of France during WWII (Vichy, Resistance, Holocaust studies), in historical methodology (archives, historians and experts in society etc.), and in memory studies, he has published nearly thirty books and more than one hundred articles throughout his career.

Priem, Matthias
Matthias Priem is archiving manager at VIAA. In this function, he’s responsible for both the infrastructure, operations and functional use of the VIAA archive. VIAA is the central audiovisual archive in Flanders, serving over 80 organizations in the broadcast and cultural heritage sectors.

Linked thesauri and searching across borders
During this session, the learnings of a joint VIAA / VRT / Beeld & Geluid project will be presented, where two existing thesauri were analysed and linked to each other in a semi-automatic way. Both the approach and tools used will be presented as well as a demonstrator illustrating a use case for the linked thesauri: a search application accross the two collections.

Ramezi, Stéphane
Stéphane Ramezi is an expert in broadcast and digital media management. As a digital transformation operator, his professional career has given him the opportunity to manage business development in large companies in France and abroad, known for their excellence and their level of demand, major players in media and the audiovisual and digital ecosystem. He’s been directing the digital Department of the National Audiovisual Institute (INA) since 2012. He has been appointed Deputy Director of the INA’s Content Division in March 2016. Stéphane is also Board member of the Google’s French fund for press and media digital innovation.

New editorial strategies for archive institutions at the age of access and digital usage
After more than fourty years collecting and dealing with tv and radio productions for professionals, the digital era brougth new possibilities and challenges to the French Audiovisual Institute: to reach and talk directly to the public, broadcast ourselves, build a strong audience and a strong following on different platforms, and ultimately become a media.

Rendina, Marco
Project manager and metadata specialist at Istituto Luce – Cinecittà. He has followed the development and realization of various international projects connected to Europeana, like Video Active, European Film Gateway, EUscreen and Presto4U. He is member of the Audiovisual Media in Europeana Task Force and Board member of the EUscreen Foundation.

Ruesch, Heinz
Heinz L. Ruesch is owner of consulting company eMediaone. He advises companies in the professional use of image and video content over the entire value chain, from the production, ingest, metadata, administration, management, archiving and distribution. In the field of Video Analytics Heinz L. Ruesch develops, along with 4Quant, new solution concepts and solution applications for customers like the broadcast industry, and companies and organizations in the surveillance area.

Salil, Sanjay
Sanjay Salil is a media entrepreneur with an experience in consulting some of the world’s leading broadcasters and media companies on technology, content and business strategy. As founder of MediaGuru, he has led the company through a decade of success, in a competitive, complex global market and driving significant growth over the years. Sanjay has overseen the launch of broadcast stations and media ventures across Asia, Middle East and Africa.

Building One Of The World’s Largest Digitization Center Of Excellence
With the vision of becoming a center of excellence for digitization and preservation catering to the entire GCC region, the PEO wanted to set up a state-of-the-art digitization facility. With large volumes of audio visual content already digitized, the PEO is now geared to handle digitization of any scale and size.
The presentation will unveil the one of the world’s largest digitization lab spread in 100,000 square feet of area. Over and above the salient features and facility, it will also touch upon the need for having more evolved technology for preserving content of historic value.

Scanavino, Margherita
Margherita Scanavino is I.T. manager in Archives Department in RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana: expert of planning, development software and management of the RAI Multimedia Catalogue, metadata standards using documentation models and preservation and digitization projects audio and video. Participated in National, International and European projects to preserve and digitized the broadcast archives as Irma, Presto, PrestoSpace, PrestoPrime, Presto Centre, Capmed, Med-Mem and Euscreen. From April 2016 she was elected President of the Audiovisual Heritage Commission of COPEAM (Permanent Conference of the Mediterranean Audiovisual Operators).

Schafer, Valérie
Valérie Schafer is a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (Institute for Communication Sciences). She specializes on history of computing and telecommunications. Her current research deals with the Internet and Web history in France and Europe in the 90s. She also leads the project ASAP (From #jesuischarlie to #offenturen: the born digital heritage and its archiving during the events, https://asap.hypotheses.org) funded by the CNRS.

Schallauer, Peter
Peter Schallauer is scientific and development coordinator for audiovisual preservation solutions at JOANNEUM RESEARCH. During recent years he is focusing his work on high quality digital film restoration (DIAMANT-Film), on signal based video and movie quality assessment tools for improving the efficiency of archive digitisation and production processes (VidiCert), he is actively involved in relevant quality control standardisation activities (EBU QC, EBU/AMWA FIMS QA) and he coordinated the EC FP7 project DAVID– Digital AV Media Damage Prevention and Repair.

Segal, Billy
Mrs. Segal is the head of IBA film archive and the digitization project of the IBA’s archives.
Within the IBA she started as a researcher for documentary films. As head of sales within the archive, she gained a rich experience in legal copyright issues and developed high skills in preservation of various film & video formats. Mrs. Segal has been archive consultant for numerous Israeli documentaries and international productions. At 2000, joined FIAT/IFTA the International Federation of Television Archives, and became a member of the Production commission of the organization.

Seigneur, Jean-Michel
Jean-Michel Seigneur is marketing and development manager at Vectracom. He works mainly on new and large digitisation and metadata enhancement projects which have to be processed on site, close to the archives.

Audio-visual metadata Cleaning and Enhancement
Vectracom currently runs an indexing project for the Saudi Broadcast Corporation. The presentation explains the phases of the project from information gathering in various inconsistent sources to the creation of a homogenous metadata repository allowing SBC using their one million records audiovisual archive.

Simoni, Marcia de
Marcia de Simoni is graduated in Computer Systems Engineering, MBA in Marketing and PMP certified. She started her career as a Business Intelligence consultant at PwC Consulting (5 years), then worked for 11 years at Oi (a big telecommunications company), leading voice, data, mobile and TV platform projects, before joining the Archives in 2013. She is the Content Archive Manager at Globosat (a brazilian content provider company for pay TV), being responsible for digitizing, archiving and describing more than 500.000 hours of content

Archive Processes and KPIs Modeling Project
Content Archive Manager at Globosat, Márcia de Simoni will present their journey towards a higher level of management, changing the archive’s team mindset in a way that measurable goals started to be something to pursue, not to be afraid of.

Smet, Tom de
Tom De Smet has been Head of Archives at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision since 2010. Currently, he is responsible for the archive- and cataloguing process of all content produced by Dutch Public Broadcasters and other domains of the audiovisual/creative industry in Holland.

Stuehn, Christoph
Christoph Stuehn has directed Memoriav, the association for the preservation of Switzerland’s audiovisual heritage, since 2013. He also works as the Vice Chairman of the SRF cultural heritage foundation, a Foundation Board member of the Fonsart foundation in French-speaking Switzerland, and also as a commissioner for the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. He studied economics at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Theory and practice of digital preservation
This talk will provide an outline of how the Netherlands institute for Sound and Vision became a Trustworthy Digital Repository in the broadest sense of the word from 2012 to today. From theories and best practices we developed a clear image of the desired OAIS compliant Digital Archive and all processes around it resulting in a clear framework consisting of a number of (public) documents that described workflows, (meta)data objects, preservation metadata, contract management, storage, preservation planning and designated user communities and, last but not least, organisational consequences.

Teruggi, Daniel
Born in Argentina in 1952, Daniel Teruggi has developed his professional career in France, where he lives since 1977. A composer and researcher, he has worked since 1981, at Ina (National Audiovisual Institute) in Paris. He is Director of Ina’s Musical Research Group, GRM, since 1997 and Director or the Research and Experimentation department of Ina since 2001. He is member of the Europeana project and Foundation and General Secretary at the International Federation of Audiovisual Archives (FIAT/IFTA).

Workshop 3: Archive. Preserving artistic production.
This workshop is dedicated to the increasing complexity of preserving complex artistic objects related to physical or hybrid documents or objects. This session presents the general difficulties and emerging solutions.

Varra, Jean
Head of the technical department, Direction of collections at Ina – Institut National de l’Audiovisuel – France. He is in charge of the technical infrastructure and processes and their evolution. Particularly, he manages the preservation and digitisation plan of Ina audio-visual archives since 2003. He participates actively in training, seminars and international activities of Ina and teaches in training programs and participates to European projects.

Practicing what you never preached: sorting and discarding from a practical side
Selecting media for long term preservation and therefore discarding part of them are fully-fledged activities and responsibilities of Archives. However, discarding audiovisual media is a non-reversible action. So how to tackle this hard, but sometimes unavoidable task? The workshop will discuss things from a practical perspective and will explain what a good sorting and discarding policy could look like. With the participation of Ina-France, VIAA-Belgium and Schweizerische Radio- und Fernsehgesellschaft-Switzerland.

Vuletic, Dean
Dr. Dean Vuletic is a historian of contemporary Europe and the author of the book “Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest”, which will be released by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2017. As a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, he has led the project “Eurovision: A History of Europe through Popular Music” at the University of Vienna.

The FIAT/IFTA Studies Grant: The Intervision Song Contest
Based on research done in the archives of Czech Television and Polish Television, this presentation will examine the Intervision Song Contest that was staged for the Eastern European members of the International Organisation for Radio and Television during the Cold War. It will highlight how the Intervision Song Contest was not only developed as an alternative to the Eurovision Song Contest, but how it also had ambitions to become the world’s leading televised international song contest.

Vytopil, Julia
As a policy advisor Innovation for the Collections unit of Holland’s main audiovisual archive, Julia combines an interest in technological innovations and process innovation with an interest in audiovisual collections. After studying art direction at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy (class of 2003) Julia worked as a freelance art-director and assistant art director for film and television for three years. In 2009 she started at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, working for several projects concerned with valorisation of research on cultural (AV) heritage. In her current function Julia works on several projects, collaborating with broadcasters, regarding the optimization of metadata flows and the relationship with the production environment.

Weihong, Yu
Yu Weihong is an editor and researcher at Shanghai Audio-Visual Archives (SAVA). She works on researching the history of Shanghai and planning the historical audio-visual archives products. In 2012-2013, she planned and executed “Shanghai Scientific and Educational Films Save Project”, which had been shortlisted for the FIAT/IFTA Archive Achievement Award 2014 as the Best Archive Preservation Project, and in 2015, she created and fulfilled the program of “The Visual Map of the Sino-Japanese War in Shanghai”.

Using Innovation and Users Participation: The New Media Program of The Visual Map of the Sino-Japanese War in Shanghai
In the Internet plus era, “the Visual Map of the Sino-Japanese War in Shanghai” by SAVA is a new try to blend with historical archives and new media to be more closely adapted to users nowadays. It integrated pieces of historical footages into the Sino-Japanese War scenes in Shanghai generally to establish a historical time-space imagination for users and make them know more about the historical footages, the
history of Shanghai urban space and the Sino-Japanese War by visiting the familiar landmarks online and offline.

Wylie, Liam
Liam Wylie is the curator at RTÉ Archives where he is responsible for the website www.rte.ie/archives. He has been the Content Producer for the projects RTÉ 1916 https://1916.rte.ie/ and WW1 100 Years http://www.rte.ie/worldwar1/ He has worked as a film and television archivist and is a former head of collections at the Irish Film Archive. In 2013 he won the FIAT/IFTA most innovative use of archive award.

RTÉ 1916 Reflecting the Rising – Archives at the Centre of Commemoration
2016 was the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising in Ireland. A look at how RTÉ Archives were at the centre of this approach in serving broadcast productions and used digital technology to offer first hand accounts of the Rising to a contemporary audience.

Yamashita, Nobu
Nobuhisa Yamashita is Senior manager of Archives division at NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corporation.
He has produced numerous television documentaries, mainly on modern Japanese history and fine arts. He is currently in charge of making NHK’s enormous collection of footage available to the public and academics.

The Archives for the People
Today, archived footage is expected to widely contribute to society as well as being reused for other productions at NHK as a public broadcaster. In the presentation, NHK’s initiatives that have made an extensive collection of its footage available to the public and for educational/academic use (through various online services and projects) will be explained.

Yi, Wang
Wang Yi is director of STV dept. at Shanghai Audio-Visual Archives (SAVA). He engaged in the construction and operation of SMG MAM systems, operated SMG digitization project which had completed more than 320,000 hours of digital video resources.

Applications of Users’ Data Analysis in SMG MAM Systems
By analyzing users’ data, the knowledge management is implemented during the construction and operation of SMG’s MAM systems.

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