Participate in the Timeline Survey 2025!

Audiovisual archives worldwide are in constant transformation. To monitor this transformation, FIAT/IFTA would like to ask you 7 short multiple choice questions: about preservation formats and content management systems in use at your archive, access to your archive, the way metadata is created and your connection to the public. 

In 2023, a new section was added with more in depth questions about the use of AI. 

The FIAT/IFTA Media Management Commission uses the data from this survey to keep track of the challenges the FIAT/IFTA members are confronted with. This way we can provide you directly with relevant information on the FIAT/IFTA-website and interesting lectures during FIAT/IFTA conferences and seminars. 

At the FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2025 in Rome, Italy (28-31 October 2025) we will present the anonymised results of this survey and publish them on the website. These results also enable you to answer the questions: “where is our archive on the timeline?” and “where are we with using Artificial Intelligence?”.

Please fill out the survey, it takes about 10 minutes of your time. Please don’t be bothered about who in your organisation should fill it out. If needed, we can easily filter out the doubles.

The deadline for filling out the survey is October 1st, 2025.