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 » ‘Continuing Education and Workshops’

Upcoming Workshops, Conferences, etc.

posted by MIAN on March 4, 2012

Symposium on Long-Term Archiving

Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg – Fernsehzentrum Berlin

Berlin

March 13 2012

A day-long symposium on the benefits for long-term storage of analog media over digital storage systems.

Lectures scheduled are:

– The Ilford Micrographic film (Dr. Jean-Noel Gex, Ilford, Marly / Switzerland)

– The laser film exposure technologies of the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques, Freiburg (Andreas Hofmann, Fraunhofer IPM, Freiburg)

– The archiumFilmCreator, a software for image processing, color management and integration of metadata for digital microfilm exposure (Klaus Wendel, archium, Aalen)

– Storage of digital data on microfilm (Christoph Voges, Independent Consultant, formerly TU Braunschweig)

– An independant user experience in the use of color microfilm to digital image data (Dr Karl Magnus Drake, National Archives of Sweden, Stockholm)

– The service and technical tools to utilize microfilm and make it accessible (Anneliese Lux, Lux de Media GbR, Offenburg)

Details (in German) are online. Cost: 10€

SEAPAVAA Conference

Vietnam Film Institute

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

April 16-21 2012

Creating, Funding, Protecting a Digital AV Archive

The 16th SEAPAVAA Conference is titled Creating, Funding, Protecting a Digital AV Archive. Details online.

ARSC Annual Conference

Rochester, New York

May 16-19

The Association for Recorded Sound Collections’ annual meeting’s preliminary program, registration form, and further details are online. So are details of a workshop that precedes the conference, on May 16, titled Copyright and Sound
Recordings. Pre-registration (required) is available online.

Screening the Future Conference 2012

Play, Pause and Press Forward

May 21-23 2012

University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Organised by the PrestoCentre Foundation, in collaboration with the University of Southern California Shoah Institute and Digital Repository. Cost: $400 ($325 until April 1), $240 for PrestoCentre members; includes Lost Landscapes screening night.

This annual international conference brings together more than 250 archivists, production-company reps, filmmakers, TV producers, scientists, and others to develop approaches to digital audiovisual storage. Under this year’s theme, Play, Pause and Press Forward, the conference will address the current status of audiovisual archives, their IT challenges, future readiness, and other issues.

In sessions and master classes, the conference will address such issues as that most institutions haven’t thought through the implications of digitizing their holdings, and gathering additional material. “Re-orienting operations around data requires changes not just in technology, but in management and culture,” and the solutions will need to differ from one type of organization to another, the conference announcement says.

Also on the agenda:

– matching users’ expectations with institutional capabilities.

– setting priorities in a changing media environment.

– building systems that can adapt to changing priorities.
– running small archives and specialized collections
– scaling digital-preservation competence
– affording current and future costs, endowment pricing, contracts, and fundraising.

Details and registration are online.

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Symposium: Digital Film Restoration within Archives

posted by MIAN on August 31, 2011

September 21-23 2011

Austrian Film Gallery, Krems, Austria

Image: Austrian Film Gallery Krems

In cooperation with Filmarchiv Austria and the Austrian Film Museum, Austrian Film Gallery, Krems, is holding a symposium that offers panels and discussions on various subjects, from restoration ethics to documentation, as well as on practical challenges of new digital technologies.

Participating archives & institutions include George Eastman House, EYE Film Institute Netherlands, Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen, Imperial War Museum London, Fuji Film Corporation, reto.ch Ltd, Danish Film Institute, Arri Group, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, hs art, Filmarchiv Austria, Austrian Film Museum, and others.

Topics of sessions include “The Digital Future of Analogue Film Archives”; “There’s No Such Thing as Digital Restoration”; “Grain and Pixel: Preserving, Restoring, and Presenting Film in Transition”; and “Photographic Film Technology for Digital Image Preservation”

Details, including speakers list and biographies, registration, and links to local accommodations, can be found online.

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DAS 2011 – AMIA’s Digital Asset Symposium

posted by MIAN on August 28, 2011

The Lifecycle of the Digital Audiovisual Asset
Digital Asset Management in the Real World

September 23, 2011
Los Angeles, CA

Registration is now available for DAS 2011 – Digital Asset Symposium, offered by the Association of Moving Image Archivists, the world’s largest association of moving image archivists.

The gathering aims to provide in-depth information on digital technology. Case studies will provide attendees an opportunity to compare approaches in different archiving communities. The sessions will bring content creators, caretakers and vendors together to address the realities with which we are all faced, what works in theory, and what works in the real world. In past years, case studies have included NBC Universal, Warner Bros., BBC Scotland, National Geographic Television, Swedish National Archive, and WNET.

Information and registration are available online.

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9/11 TV News Archive: Learning from Recorded Memory

posted by MIAN on August 16, 2011

Learning from Recorded Memory mini-conference

Wednesday, August 24 2011, 4-6pm

Place: New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor, Michelson Theater, New York

A New York City firefighter looks up at what remains of the World Trade Center Sept. 13, 2001, after its collapse following the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. Photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Jim Watson, USN A New York City firefighter looks up at what remains of the World Trade Center Sept. 13, 2001, after its collapse following the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. Photo: Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Jim Watson, USN.

Internet Archive and NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program are inviting scholars, journalists. and students to a mini-conference to introduce the 9/11 TV News Archive. In an announcement about the event, which is titled Learning from Recorded Memory, Rick Prelinger, the Board President of the Internet Archive, wrote:

Television news coverage of the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath not only documented one of the most important events in mass memory, but structured its public perception. “Learning From Recorded Memory,” a mini-conference, highlights work by scholars using these materials to help us understand how TV news presented the 9/11 events and the international response. The conference will feature a demonstration of Internet Archive’s newly relaunched 9/11 TV News Archive, plus short presentations, followed by a reception.

Our collective recollection of 9/11 and the days that followed is inseparable from the TV news coverage we have all seen. But while television news is inarguably the most vivid and pervasive information medium of our time, it has not been a medium of record. As the number of news outlets increases, research and scholarly access to the thousands of hours of TV news aired each day grows increasingly difficult. Scholars face great challenges in identifying, locating, and adequately citing television news broadcasts in their research.

The 9/11 Television News Archive contains national and international news coverage of 9/11 and its aftermath, and is designed to assist scholars and journalists researching relationships between news events and coverage, engaging in comparative and longitudinal studies, and investigating “who said what when.” What kinds of research and scholarship will be enabled by access to an online database of TV news broadcasts? How will emerging TV news studies make use of this service? This conference, co-presented by Internet Archive and NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program, will offer contemporary insights and predictions on new directions in television news studies.

Confirmed speakers include Marshall Breeding, Vanderbilt Television News Archive; Carolyn Brown, American University; Deborah Jaramillo, Boston University; Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive; Mark J. Williams, Dartmouth College; Michael Lesk, Rutgers University; Beatrice Choi, NYU; Brian A. Monahan, Iowa State University; and Scott Blake, artist.

Anyone interested in attending should contact the organizers at rsvp@archive.org.

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