FIAT/IFTA WORLD CONFERENCE

28-31 OCTOBER

ROME 2025

The call for proposals
is now closed

Everything is possible and nothing is true?

Rome, Italy – Cinecittà Luce, October 28th – 31st, 2025

In 2024, we explored the provocative statement, ‘Everything was possible and nothing was true’. As we gather again in 2025, we will delve deeper into this concept, recognising its increasing relevance in our rapidly evolving media landscape. This year’s conference also coincides with the 100th anniversary of Cinecittà, which crafted dreams and shaped our understanding of the world through its sets for over a century. This anniversary serves as a powerful reminder as we confront a present dominated by generative AI, the significant challenges of misinformation and disinformation, and the critical importance of archives in navigating this complex reality. Join us to examine the role of archives in helping us understand what’s factual and building a foundation of verifiable reality in a world where ‘Everything is possible and nothing is true?’

Our conference is the premier gathering for everyone working with media archives: managers, archivists, researchers, developers, planners, and service and goods providers. The FIAT/IFTA World Conference, ask those who attended, is anything but yet another business event. It’s a dynamic space where ideas meet action and where professionals from diverse backgrounds come together to tackle the pressing challenges of today’s media archives, in an atmosphere of friendly openness.

Come join us in Rome, città eterna, as we explore all the important details about media archives, including the challenges, the things we’re not sure about, and the opportunities. Your voice matters. Your expertise shapes the conversation. Be part of the dialogue defining the next media preservation and strategy chapter.

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS

REIMAGINING MEDIA PRESERVATION: SOVEREIGNTY, SUSTAINABILITY, AND SMART SOLUTIONS

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Is the cloud coming back to earth? Regulation, sovereignty, and in-house archiving

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Beyond the manual: unconventional solutions for collections not yet digitised

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Digitising on a shoestring: Challenges and solutions in resource-limited settings

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To normalize or to manage the multitude? Dealing with file format diversity

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Ecologically responsible media preservation: a contradiction in terms?

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Green media preservation: a sustainable reality or an impossible dream?

MANAGING THE FLOW: METADATA, MANAGEMENT, AND THE EVOLVING ROLE OF THE ARCHIVIST

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Algorithms or humans, who’s more biased?

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MAM implementations: the computer as agent and humans in control

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Once we called them documentalists: training, hiring, transforming for new roles and profiles

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Which tool for which task? Workbenches and test beds for your new roles and profiles

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Media consumption data as metadata: necessary or overrated?

ACCESSING THE PAST, SHAPING THE FUTURE: ETHICS, EQUITY, AND ENGAGEMENT IN ARCHIVE ACCESS

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Whose story is it? Ethical considerations for online access to materials featuring private individuals

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Archives as evidence – the role of archives in public enquiries or high-profile investigations

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Web and social archiving – the ethics of what gets captures, the opportunities and challenges

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The right to be forgotten – challenges of keeping and preserving records of the public

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Archiving trauma and uncomfortable truths

ARCHIVE-BASED RESEARCH: NARRATIVES OF PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

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Broadcast archives and their public value in the age of disinformation

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Archival interventions in present-day societal challenges

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Archival reparations for problematic pasts

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Feminist archiving: reinterpreting the past, reimagining the future

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Histories of authoritarianism in the archives and their cautionary tales

STRATEGIC CHOICES FOR THE ARCHIVE’S MANAGEMENT TEAM

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The use of broadcast archive material to train AI algorithms: ethical and strategic aspects

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Archives as actors in the political and social debate about public broadcasting

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Market evolutions in archival sales as a result of changing media production

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Money is too tight to mention: The archive in the balance sheet

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How do you valorise your archive (does your corporation know that your archive is an asset?)

READ THE FULL CALL FOR PROPOSALS

FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2025 – Call for Proposals