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Tuesday, October 15
 

10:00am EEST

FIAT/IFTA Executive Council Meeting (closed meeting)
Tuesday October 15, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Nevada
Closed meeting
Tuesday October 15, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Nevada Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Pre-Conference

11:00am EEST

MORNING BREAK (Closed - EC Only)
Tuesday October 15, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
Tuesday October 15, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Break, Morning Break

11:30am EEST

FIAT/IFTA Executive Council Meeting (closed meeting)
Tuesday October 15, 2024 11:30am - 1:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Nevada
Closed meeting
Tuesday October 15, 2024 11:30am - 1:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Nevada Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Pre-Conference

1:00pm EEST

LUNCH BREAK (Closed - EC Only)
Tuesday October 15, 2024 1:00pm - 2:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
Tuesday October 15, 2024 1:00pm - 2:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Break, Lunch Break

2:30pm EEST

MMC Meeting (Observers welcomed)
Tuesday October 15, 2024 2:30pm - 4:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida
Details on how to attend TBA.
Tuesday October 15, 2024 2:30pm - 4:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Pre-Conference, Commission Meeting

2:30pm EEST

MSC Meeting (Observers welcomed)
Tuesday October 15, 2024 2:30pm - 4:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado
Details on how to attend TBA.
Tuesday October 15, 2024 2:30pm - 4:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Pre-Conference, Commission Meeting

2:30pm EEST

PMC Meeting (Observers welcomed)
Tuesday October 15, 2024 2:30pm - 4:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Nevada
Details on how to attend TBA.
Tuesday October 15, 2024 2:30pm - 4:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Nevada Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Pre-Conference, Commission Meeting

2:30pm EEST

VUC Meeting (Observers welcomed)
Tuesday October 15, 2024 2:30pm - 4:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
Details on how to attend TBA.
Tuesday October 15, 2024 2:30pm - 4:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
  Pre-Conference, Commission Meeting

4:30pm EEST

AI and Copyright: An exploration of the legal aspects and use of AI
Tuesday October 15, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
On behalf of the VUC, we would like to give a short presentation on AI, copyright and other legal/policy aspects (by Maartje Hülsenbeck) followed by a workshop with all interested members of FIAT/IFTA in this topic. We will pose questions on different AI and copyright related topics (see below) and present statements to the group to discuss.

The goal of this session is to provide information on AI and copyright and other legal aspects, as well as to gather insights by hearing from each organisation in which way they use AI and explore how this could be related to copyright and use, as well as exchange ideas on AI policies that organisations might already have or are considering to make. We will also be conducting a survey prior to the conference to e.g. get an impression of the fact if organisations already have policies on AI.

The VUC will convert the outcomes of the survey and the workshop in a report, as well as examples of AI policies some organisations might already have and are willing to share, and ultimately we will publish this on the FIAT/IFTA website.

We aim to provide a set of guiding principles for organisations to consider when implementing their own AI strategies when creating, archiving and re-using their content.

We would like to invite some people of the organisations we already know of that are more advanced in the use of AI to the Workshop, who would definitely join the session and bring their real experiences to the discussion.
Speakers
avatar for Louise Broch

Louise Broch

Researcher and Archivist, DR
Louise Broch (1973), researcher and archivist, DR Archive, Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR):Louise has 20 years of experience with research and archiving in DR. Today she is a researcher in a cross-media task force that helps producers/journalists in DR with TV, radio, and text... Read More →
avatar for Dale Grayson

Dale Grayson

Managing director, Northbound TV
avatar for Maartje Hülsenbeck

Maartje Hülsenbeck

Copyright lawyer, Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision
Maartje Hülsenbeck is a lawyer specialising in copyright. She advises the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision on copyright issues that arise in managing the collection and making it accessible. She also conducts contract negotiations with various media- and copyright-related... Read More →
Tuesday October 15, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
  Pre-Conference, Workshop

4:30pm EEST

Legacies of Television Archives in Eastern Europe
Tuesday October 15, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida
What is the legacy of television archives in Eastern Europe today? How does this legacy position these institutions as part of national and European cultural heritage and collective memory?

The workshop aims to raise questions that are relevant for broadcast archives across Eastern Europe, a region that has been recurrently defined through its communist past and approached by those within and outside the region primarily through its differences to Western archives.

In this workshop, good practices and challenges related to the re-use of TVR’s archival material and the clearing of rights of archival material will be discussed in order to rethink what constitutes the public value of television in the region, how television archives can stay relevant and how they can play a role in futureproofing public broadcasting.

These discussions will be contrasted with broader questions on how TVR and TVR archives can re-assert their role in collective national and European memory without being reduced to their communist past. Do broadcast institutions from the former communist Eastern Europe, such as TVR, still carry with them the stigma of past political regime and if so, how and by whom is that stigma maintained? How can the (re-)use of television archives offer solutions to help surpass limiting beliefs and reductionist understandings, which to the present day still guide the dialogue with and about public television and television archives in the region?

Through hands-on exercises and activities, this workshop invites attendees to think along of the unique positioning of television archives from the region as part of European cultural heritage. Attendees will also be invited to (self-)reflect on the prejudices and stereotyping that are recurrently brought to the table when engaging with broadcast institutions and broadcast archives from Eastern Europe and recognize the urgency with which such practices need to be rendered visible and addressed.
Speakers
DM

Dana Mustata

Professor, University of Groningen
Dana Mustata is Assistant Professor in Television and Audiovisual Culture at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She has been a principal investigator on the research projects ‘Everyday Matters. Material Historiographies of Television in Cold War Contexts’ and ‘Television... Read More →
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CD
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Tuesday October 15, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Pre-Conference, Workshop

4:30pm EEST

Preserving authenticity of media archive content: an open discussion
Tuesday October 15, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Nevada
As a follow-up to the Preservation seminar organised in June entitled "Preserving authenticity of media archive content", this workshop will explore the findings and views of the seminar's participants, through the result of polls.

What really is authenticity? What's the role of the archive? Must we feel threatened?

Here's a chance to discuss these crucial matters.
Speakers
avatar for Laurent Boch

Laurent Boch

Responsible of Research Projects Administration, Rai
Laurent Boch, graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1990 at “Politecnico di Torino”, has been working for RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana since 1992, at the Centre for Research and Technological Innovation (CRITS). He has been involved in several EU funded project dealing with... Read More →
avatar for Etienne Marchand

Etienne Marchand

Multimedia Engineer, INA
Graduated from EICAR in 2008 after training as a sound engineer, Etienne Marchand has since been working on a great variety of archive documents - audio, video and film - and on every aspect of the technical workflows: assessment, cleaning and physical restoration of audiovisual carriers... Read More →
Tuesday October 15, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Nevada Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Pre-Conference, Workshop

4:30pm EEST

Where are the disabled archivists?
Tuesday October 15, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado
Archival gaps and silences are often examined from the perspective of the content of a collection or the community it serves. Little work has been done on how these archival gaps and silences are felt within the profession itself. The disabled community has particularly felt this lack of professional self-reflection. Disabled archivist representation is quite low according to the little data that has been collected.

This workshop looks to work with conference participants on how to make their archival institutions a more accessible space for disabled archivists in the present and future. Michael shares his own experiences as a trained film archivist with epilepsy alongside his findings on accessibility gaps in moving image archival education.

Themes include programming, metadata, cataloguing, physical and digital accessible archival spaces, training, and equitable hiring practises. Each theme is introduced and contextualized within its current relationship to accessibility relating to pertinent concepts. Concepts outlined include, but are not limited to, trauma-informed archival practise, the person-centered archive, the care-centered archive, and universal design. Not only will these concepts be defined but will be used for strategic action items that institutions can take to make their own archive more accessible.

Michael will address questions, discuss strategies for inclusion, while also opening the floor to conference participants. The interactive nature of this workshop gives attendees the opportunity to share their own accessibility strategies, successes, and opportunities for improvement. A global conference allows for varying perspectives from countries that have different legislation relating to accessibility and the working environment. Collaboration is necessary to create a truly inclusive archival spaces for everyone.
Speakers
MM

Michael Marlatt

York University
Michael Marlatt is a Canadian disabled film archivist, archival accessibility consultant, and York University PhD candidate whose work focuses on disability inclusion in the audio/visual archival profession. He has worked on projects for the Toronto International Film Festival, CFMDC... Read More →
Tuesday October 15, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Pre-Conference, Workshop

7:00pm EEST

Opening Cocktail
Tuesday October 15, 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm EEST
Romanian National Television
Opening Cocktail offered to the guests TVR and to the attendants of the FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2024.

Welcome messages by:
  • Brecht Declercq, President of FIAT/IFTA
Speakers
avatar for Brecht Declercq

Brecht Declercq

President - Head of Archives, FIAT/IFTA - RSI
Brecht Declercq (MA, MSc) is the President of FIAT/IFTA, the world association of media archives, and Head of Archives at RSI, the public broadcasting of Italian-speaking Switzerland. From 2013 until 2022 he was responsible for the preservation of the Flemish audiovisual heritage... Read More →
Tuesday October 15, 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm EEST
Romanian National Television Calea Dorobanți 191, București, Rumanía
  Social Events
 
Wednesday, October 16
 

9:30am EEST

Opening Session
Wednesday October 16, 2024 9:30am - 10:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
Official opening of the conference, featuring words of welcome and introduction speeches by:
  • Brecht Declercq (FIAT/IFTA President)
  • TBA
Speakers
avatar for Brecht Declercq

Brecht Declercq

President - Head of Archives, FIAT/IFTA - RSI
Brecht Declercq (MA, MSc) is the President of FIAT/IFTA, the world association of media archives, and Head of Archives at RSI, the public broadcasting of Italian-speaking Switzerland. From 2013 until 2022 he was responsible for the preservation of the Flemish audiovisual heritage... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2024 9:30am - 10:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Plenary Session

10:00am EEST

Keynote 1
Wednesday October 16, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
TBA

Wednesday October 16, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Plenary Session, Keynote

11:00am EEST

MORNING BREAK
Wednesday October 16, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
Wednesday October 16, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Break, Morning Break

11:30am EEST

"Everything was possible and nothing was true": Romanian television under communism
Wednesday October 16, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida
The presentation will focus on how the propaganda machinery and disinformation-saturated media landscape that characterised Ceausescu’s totalitarian regime in communist Romania constructed a specific epistemic positioning of individuals that undermined, weakened or obliterated their disposition to make reliable judgements about whom, what and when to trust. While histories of media in (former) totalitarian regimes have paid ample attention to propaganda and censorship, less – if hardly any – attention has been paid to how such mechanisms of disinformation have worked to compromise the epistemic autonomy of people who have lived through such political regimes. This overlooked element in the anatomy of propaganda, namely the epistemic positioning of people in an environment where - as Hannah Arendt (1951) would describe it - “everything was possible, and nothing was true”, can offer insights into the most urgent casualties and liabilities in today’s struggles against disinformation.  

Using oral testimonies, Securitate files and press clippings from the time, I will illustrate how under Ceausescu’s totalitarian regime, the effectiveness of propaganda consisted primarily of people’s disbelief of the regime’s lies, while simultaneously believing that nothing and no one could be trusted and everything was possible. This compromised epistemic autonomy has been a lingering after-effect in post-communist Romanian society. It is this persistence to the present day of a compromised epistemic autonomy rooted within a history of propaganda and disinformation, a persistence that goes on despite the present-day pluriform, independent and alternative systems of information, which is most interesting in understanding the finest mechanisms of how disinformation affects people’s reliance on others in the pursuit of truth and how disinformation ultimately relies on compromised basic social relations.
Speakers
DM

Dana Mustata

Professor, University of Groningen
Dana Mustata is Assistant Professor in Television and Audiovisual Culture at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She has been a principal investigator on the research projects ‘Everyday Matters. Material Historiographies of Television in Cold War Contexts’ and ‘Television... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 3

11:30am EEST

Activating AV-Archive Histories: From Enriched Metadata to Community Engagement
Wednesday October 16, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado
This presentation investigates the potential for better contextualising past histories of audiovisual (AV) collections in institutional metadata and explores possibilities for increased community engagement and knowledge co-creation. It will reflect on the process and results of the recent research project TRACE (Tracking Radio Archival Collections in Europe, 1930-1960) to consider further future pathways for integrating contextual information about the historical impact of war, conflict and political change (e.g. before and after World War II) on AV collections.

Drawing from the TRACE project framework that identified how AV archives have been subject to major disruptions and damage (e.g. to physical carriers/content, archival documentation, broadcast buildings/storage spaces, and continuities of staff/knowledge), this talk will take up several short examples to explore the extent to which new insights can be gleaned from existing metadata.
Speakers
avatar for Carolyn Birdsall

Carolyn Birdsall

Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam
Carolyn Birdsall is Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. Her publications include Nazi Soundscapes (2012) and Radiophilia (2023), as well as “Listening to the Archive” (2019, co-ed. Viktoria Tkaczyk) and “Historical Traces of European Radio Archives... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 2

11:30am EEST

Rai’s Archive New Exploitation and Associated Risk in Podcast Production
Wednesday October 16, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
Considering the growing popularity of podcasts due to their inherent convenience for consumption in areas such as deepening knowledge and entertainment, and taking the example of the Rai Play Sound platform, where original podcasts can be found, in addition to the radio offering of new and/or repertoire programs, we will analyse, through concrete examples, the methods and verification processes implemented by Rai’s Rights Management Department when rights clearances are requested in order to use archive material in new in-house or third parties podcast productions.

We will examine the different types of contracts, from the oldest ones, which only provided for radio and television rights, to the newest ones where exploitation within podcasts is already provided for in the contractual clauses, explaining what risks we take and why. Rights Management Department follows Rai’s Legal Department’s guidelines , but its decisions are also the result of comparisons and evaluations made for each individual case based on various factors: whether internal use or commercialization of the podcast is envisaged; the nature of the repertoire requested (movies, entertainment, investigations, sports, etc.); whether the podcast consists of the full retransmission of a program already broadcasted or whether the material must be inserted into a new work.

We will also discuss cases where the Fair Use principle can be applied for the free use of archives (for example, for purposes of criticism, comment, information, teaching, instruction, or research).

During the presentation, we will show some specific and potentially critical cases, discussing how we behave in the presence of material protected by copyright and agreements between Rai and collecting societies.

Speakers
avatar for Andrea Mauri

Andrea Mauri

Audiovisual Archivist - Rights Specialist, RAI
Andrea Mauri graduated in law at Sapienza University of Rome. He has been working in Rai since 1995. From 2010 his role in Rai Teche is to check and manage rights situation about Rai tv programmes, giving all information to customers about utilization and restrictions of footage... Read More →
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Gabriele Di Majo

audiovisual archivist - rights specialist, RAI
Audiovisual archivist at Rai Teche. After the degree in Literature and Philosophy - course DAMS (arts, music and entertainment) at the University Roma Tre he works for a brief period at Fandango (Italian entertainment company), in the office of the music supervisor and publisher... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
  Parallel Session, Session 1

12:00pm EEST

Articles about DR history as a tool for a new archive universe: Pilot project changed into a strategic part of the promotion of archive content
Wednesday October 16, 2024 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado
In 2018 DR Archive was facing big changes. For five years DR Archive had made a lot of outreach activities meeting users outside the archive on different festivals and events. But the archive was split into two divisions in 2018, and the physical events had to stop. Instead, we got the opportunity to write articles about DR history, telling stories about how DR made programs back in time with clips from old programs. From 2019 to 2023 the site views grew from about 50.000 to 250.000.

The site was a pilot project, and its future was uncertain. But in March 2024 DR launched a new archive universe with curated archive programs on the main tv streaming platform. As a part of the promotion of the archive content, the article site with DR history has got a new and important role as a communication platform for the content. I would like to present this positive development from pilot project to a central tool in DR’s new archive investment.
Speakers
avatar for Louise Broch

Louise Broch

Researcher and Archivist, DR
Louise Broch (1973), researcher and archivist, DR Archive, Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR):Louise has 20 years of experience with research and archiving in DR. Today she is a researcher in a cross-media task force that helps producers/journalists in DR with TV, radio, and text... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2024 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 2

12:00pm EEST

Folkore Archives and Open Source Memory Boxes: 10 Years Later
Wednesday October 16, 2024 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida
This article explores an innovative approach to the long-term preservation of documents housed in the Folklore Archive of the Romanian Academy, examining the concept through three distinct metaphors: the zoo, the seed-bank, and guerrilla gardening. It proposes that each metaphor offers a unique perspective on preservation strategies.

The "zoo" metaphor emphasizes the idea of reintroducing previously captured research materials back into the wild, allowing for a more dynamic interaction with the public. The "seed-bank" metaphor positions the archive as a living database, serving future generations by preserving the genetic material of cultural heritage. Lastly, the "guerrilla gardening" metaphor suggests the use of "seed bombing" tactics to combat the erosion of intangible cultural heritage, proposing a proactive and dispersed approach to preservation trough small memory boxes. This boxes should be highly customized gifts for the communities from where the recordings were captured.

The analysis critically reflects on these metaphors, which were introduced a decade ago, to assess their viability and impact on contemporary preservation practices. The discussion will be enhanced by the presentation of an updated working model of a small memory box, a wooden encased device that plays old Transylvanian audio recordings.



Speakers
avatar for Liviu-Ovidiu Pop

Liviu-Ovidiu Pop

The Folklore Archive of the Romanian Academy
Liviu-Ovidiu Pop holds a doctorate from Babeș-Bolyai University, on the topic of the digitization, organization, and long-term preservation of digital information within the documentary collections of the Romanian Academy’s Folklore Archive. He acquired a Master’s degree in Culture... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2024 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 3

12:00pm EEST

The computer says Yes: Codifying risks and legal uncertainty for mass clearances
Wednesday October 16, 2024 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
This session will explore how the BFI approached its largest ever rights clearance project, researching over 30,000 titles and clearing rights for 13,000 film and TV works for a new streaming service in UK libraries, BFI Replay, as part of the recently completed Heritage 2022 programme. I'll show how we devised our approach to compliance & risk across the multiple layers of rights and the different categories of rights holders and works, and the tools, processes and policies we developed to support this work and the results we achieved. I'll share some of the main obstacles we faced, like the information gap, and how we engaged with rights holders and consider some of the longer term challenges that can be created by project driven rights work.
Speakers
avatar for Annie (Annabelle) Shaw

Annie (Annabelle) Shaw

Copyright and Rights Systems Manager, BFI
Annie Shaw has worked in copyright since 2000 and joined the BFI in 2004. She manages the contract & royalties system for BFI's distribution & sales catalogues and, since 2012, she's been responsible for delivering the rights work for the BFI's archive digitisation programmes, Unlocking... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2024 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
  Parallel Session, Session 1

12:30pm EEST

A Study on the feasibility of preserving online content in Korean Film Archive: Based on the content providers interviews
Wednesday October 16, 2024 12:30pm - 1:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado
Currently, the legal deposit for film productions in South Korea is mainly limited to theater releases that have been rated by the Korea Media Rating Board. On the other hand, the amendment to the Act on the Promotion of Motion Pictures and Video Products allows platforms and content providers to self-rate content released on the over-the-top(OTT). Content that is self-rated by the provider is not subject to legal deposit after release. Recently, the OTT industries have continued to develop, but OTT content that is outside the scope of the legal deposit system has not been preserved. Therefore, it is necessary to explore alternatives for collecting and archiving OTT content that is in the gaps of national collection and management.

In 2023, Korean Film Archive (KOFA) conducted a survey to identify the current status of content storage in OTT content producers and platforms and gather opinions from those in the field. Through this, KOFA examines the necessity of collecting OTT content, what to preserve, and how to collect it. In this study, a total of 21 face-to-face interviews were conducted with a group of stakeholders from content producers and platforms, policy makers, and researchers. Questions were asked about the production environments of major OTT providers, the types, genres, and topics of content they produce, the current state of production data management, key issues, and how the public sector can support them. The survey focused on the need for archiving at the national level, prerequisites for introducing a public OTT content archiving system, and whether public archiving is necessary to promote and foster the OTT industries. Based on stakeholder interviews, the study summarizes what to preserve OTT content and how to acquire it efficiently. The study finally suggests directions and implementation strategies to preserve OTT content for national audiovisual heritage safeguarding.
Speakers
SK

Sooyoung Kim

PhD Candidate, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
I worked as a video journalist at a Korean broadcaster for five years (2013-2017), a documentary PD and writer (2017-2022), and a film magazine reporter (2022-2023), producing documentaries and news based on footage. Along the way, I became as interested in creating a system that... Read More →
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Jiyoung Lee

Archivist from Acquisition Team, Korean Film Archive
SK

Shinkyu Kang

Principal Research Fellow, Korea Broadcasting Advertising Corp., Media & Advertising Research Institute
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Hyojin Choi

Senior Researcher, Information and Archival Science Research Institute Hankuk University of Foreign Languages
Majored Audiovisual Heritage Management for Master’s degree in INA-Sup (School in Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, French National Audiovisual Archives, 2011-2013)Currently, present as a researcher at Institute of Information and Archival Science of Hankuk University of Foreign... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2024 12:30pm - 1:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 2

12:30pm EEST

Managing rights, taking risks: Collective and individual management with legal and royalties data's analysis
Wednesday October 16, 2024 12:30pm - 1:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
INA is a French public company whose first mission is to preserve and develop a vast collection of audiovisual and audio archives from French public radios and TV channels.

Due to the quantity of rights managed and the large number of rightsholders in the collection of INA’s archives, exploiting it involves taking risks.

In order to limit risk exposure, INA has developed a politic of collective agreement conclusion with CMOs (for the authors rights) and unions (for the performers rights). In the same time, individual agreements are concluded / negotiated with third-party property rights (rightsholders non-members of CMOs, coproducers, organizers of sports events / shows, multiple rightsholders of contents previously incorporated in INA’s archives (photo, phonograms, literary works, etc.).

INA’s Legal Department also have to deal with rights of the personality, image, freedom of expression, private life… and others (with the IA, RGPD).

Our purpose is to facilitate the work of our operational teams with clear guidelines on each subject. A legal team at the INA’s Legal Department is dedicated to the legal analysis of our contents with the perspective of an exploitation to manage the risk. INA has launched a project to create a SI which enables to combine the legal data on the contents and the royalties data in order to simplify the decision making. However, human intervention is still necessary to appreciate the risk and the opportunity of an exploitation.
Speakers
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Sandrine Lardeux

INA
Sandrine LARDEUX is the Head of Department of Rights, Acquisition and Royalties (DDAR) of INA Legal Department. She holds a Master degree in Economic rights and Communication from Toulouse University and is also licensed as an attorney in France (Paris Bar). She has worked in audiovisual... Read More →
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Johanna Dong

INA
Johanna DONG is a Legal Project manager at the INA since 2019, working on crosscutting issues at the Legal Department. She holds a Master degree in Intellectual property Law from UPEC (Paris Est) and a DU in International Litigation. She works in the areas of literary and artistic... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2024 12:30pm - 1:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
  Parallel Session, Session 1

12:30pm EEST

The Romanian Revolution of 1989 in the collective memory: Manipulating the truth through disinformation
Wednesday October 16, 2024 12:30pm - 1:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida
The Timisoara Revolution Memorial Association was founded on April, 1990. Within the association operates the National Center for Documentation, Research and Public Information about the Romanian Revolution of 1989. Our institution has been declared an entity of national interest. By Decree No. 445/2019 we received the Order "Cultural Merit in the Rank of Knight", Category E - awarded by the President of Romania, Mr. Klaus Werner Iohannis.

Over the course of 34 years of activity, we have erected 14 monuments in memory of the martyr heroes of December 1989, founded a publishing house through which we have published over 50 volumes and a biannual scientific journal. We managed to build a vast and unique database in Romania that includes several sections: oral history, mass media, documents, statements, press collections and photos.

The main purpose is to honor the memory of the martyr heroes of 1989, restore the historical truth, and to promote the culture of local remembrance through local, national and international exhibitions (permanent and temporary), book launches, theater performances, workshops and conferences, talk shows, lectures, film screenings, award ceremonies, particularly aimed at the young generation, schoolchildren and students. We consider it a priority mission to present the historical truth primarily to the younger generations as a legacy in the culture of memory. In order to extend our collections and enrich our educational work we are now adding archive moving footage from other countries to our exhibitions, for example archive from the Austrian Broadcasting Cooperation.

In its strive for opening up its collections the ORF Multimedia Archives is always keen to provide its footage for interesting projects. Memorialul Revolutiei 1989 perfectly meets the criteria for a fruitful cooperation. Ruth Stifter-Trummer (ORF) shows some unique clips of the Rumanian Revolution from the ORF-archives which enhance the rich funds of the Memorial Association.
Speakers
avatar for Ruth Stifter Trummer

Ruth Stifter Trummer

archive journalist, ORF
I have been with the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation for 30 years, as a documentalist, researcher and archive journalist. External non-commercial requests fall within my area of responsibility, among of which are the educational sector and the academic community. To be more accessible... Read More →
avatar for Rado Gino

Rado Gino

Asociatia Memorialul Revolutiei Din Timisora
Education:         2022- present: University doctoral studies, West University of Timişoara Bachelor of History, “Babeș-Bolyai” University Cluj-Napoca, modern universal history and history of Romania.Activities:2020 until the present – president, Asociația Memorialul... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2024 12:30pm - 1:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 3

1:00pm EEST

LUNCH BREAK
Wednesday October 16, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
Wednesday October 16, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Break, Lunch Break

2:00pm EEST

Meet the Sponsors 1
Wednesday October 16, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
Learn more about our Gold Premier and Gold Sponsors on the FIAT/IFTA World Conference website: https://fiatifta.org/world-conference/#sponsors
Wednesday October 16, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Plenary Session

3:00pm EEST

FIAT/IFTA Initiatives: Timeline Survey Results
Wednesday October 16, 2024 3:00pm - 3:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
Wednesday October 16, 2024 3:00pm - 3:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Plenary Session

3:30pm EEST

AFTERNOON BREAK
Wednesday October 16, 2024 3:30pm - 4:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
Wednesday October 16, 2024 3:30pm - 4:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Break, Afternoon Break

4:00pm EEST

Open Planet Building an Online Resource for Climate Communications - No Content, No Platform, No Team: How We Created a Footage Library From Scratch
Wednesday October 16, 2024 4:00pm - 4:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida
In 2022, Studio Silverback, Britain's leading natural history producers, proposed creating an online library of world-class footage of our changing planet for use in non-commercial climate and environmental projects and communications. The goal was to build a high-quality, scientifically accurate, and globally accessible collection of video assets, to be named "Open Planet", and make it available for free. This idea stemmed from frustration with broadcasters and streamers tightly controlling the rights to Silverback's documentary content, including unused rushes material, restricting its use by others.

Following a rapid project timeline which addressed investment, corporate structures, technological, rights and media management requirements, the beta library was launched in Autumn 2023 and has already made a significant impact. Footage has been used by a mix of audiences – from scientists and educators, to NGOs, activists and filmmakers – in multi-channel communications campaigns and events, including major global conferences such as COP28, the UN General Assembly and the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting.

The full global launch of Open Planet is scheduled for Spring 2024. In this presentation, Rights and Archive consultants from Northbound will explain the construction of the library and its current reach. Topics will include:

  • Technology procurement and system build 
  • Media management and metadata model 
  • Rights negotiations and unlocking 
  • Usage and impacts of the library 
Speakers
avatar for Kay Page

Kay Page

Managing Director, Northbound TV
Clearing and managing IP rights, buying and selling archive clips, organising media collections.
avatar for Dale Grayson

Dale Grayson

Managing director, Northbound TV
Wednesday October 16, 2024 4:00pm - 4:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 1

4:00pm EEST

Quality & Exceptions Methodology for Digitisation of 100,000 video tapes: Working in partnership to achieve optimum efficiency
Wednesday October 16, 2024 4:00pm - 4:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado
Working in partnership with multiple archive collections owners across the regions and nations of the UK and a range of selected service providers, the National Lottery funded BFI Heritage 2022 video tape digitisation project devised a unique approach to the successful mass digitisation of over 100,000  video tapes, spanning every generation and format type.

This presentation will focus on the innovative work done to create a single Quality and Exceptions Methodology (QEM) document, prepared collaboratively between all project stakeholders to ensure that regardless of genre, format type or general condition, every title selected for digitisation would be catered for to meet exacting budgets and quality expectations for both preservation and access.

As well as the smooth flow for the majority of titles digitised, we will also explore the relatively small but not insignificant number of problematic tapes which comprised what were termed, 'exceptions' and some of the ways these too were successfully migrated from their obsolete carriers.
Speakers
avatar for Charles Fairall

Charles Fairall

Videotape & Engineering Advisor, British Film Institute (BFI)
Charles Fairall has served the BFI National Archive for 35 years as a technologist and as Head of Conservation over the past decade, took primary responsibility for leading the technical teams who pioneered innovative techniques to conserve, preserve and make accessible through digitisation... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2024 4:00pm - 4:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 2

4:00pm EEST

Unlocking the Potential of the Archives: Combination of Strengths in Advancing Speech Recognition
Wednesday October 16, 2024 4:00pm - 4:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
We will present results of combining the latest research in automatic speech recognition (ASR) with European high performance computing (HPC) and large quantities of raw audiovisual data contained in national radio and television archives. The aim of the work was two-fold, firstly, to advance ASR by building models on large public data collections and secondly, to harness the large audio-visual media archives for large-scale qualitative and quantitative media research by generating an automatic indexation based on all spoken content that is decoded by ASR. Only the largest global companies can have access both to the latest ASR development, huge computing resources and huge audio collections, but their commercial interests do not treat all languages equally.

In Europe, most languages are spoken in small countries which, however, have advanced radio and television archives containing millions of hours of broadcasted media content. The latest publicly funded HPC initiatives have also opened researchers an access to unprecedented computational resources. By utilizing the computing and archives it is possible for researchers to develop and publish large pre-trained speech models for many languages without depending on the commercial interests of the large global companies. The large speech models can be pre-trained in a self-supervised fashion which can benefit also from untranscribed and uncategorized audio collections. When openly published, these models make it then easy and quick to develop speech technology applications, such as accurate recognizers for ASR and speech, speaker and audio characteristics for these languages by fine-tuning the models using a feasible amount of transcribed target data.
Speakers
avatar for Tommi Lehtonen

Tommi Lehtonen

Technical Planner, Finland's National Audiovisual Institute
Mr. Lehtonen has Master’s Degree in Folklore Studies from University of Helsinki and Master’s Degree in Information Technology at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. He has been working in National Audiovisual Institute of Finland (KAVI) for over twelve years. Focus of... Read More →
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Mikko Kurimo

Aalto University
Prof. Mikko Kurimo (D.Sc.Tech. 1997 Helsinki University of Technology) is a Full Professor of Speech and Language Processing and the head of the speech recognition research group at Aalto University. He has supervised 18 doctoral theses and 79 master’s thesis and co-ordinated several... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2024 4:00pm - 4:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
  Parallel Session, Session 1

4:30pm EEST

Film and Audiovisual Archives, in Ecological Terms: The Climate Footprint of Our Memory
Wednesday October 16, 2024 4:30pm - 5:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida
Film archives safeguard and preserve physical media and digital files. However, the ecological impact is considerable. Today, in the midst of climate turmoil and uncertainty, we wonder about the balance between preserving the audiovisual memory of our species and mitigating its environmental impact, particularly in the Global South.  

The approach to two of the most consolidated institutional archives in Mexico and Colombia, has allowed us to learn more and compare the various economic and social factors that face the challenge of preservation and sustainability in our times. At the same time, it has allowed us to have more in depth knowledge of diverse Archive Managers’ perspectives on possible ecological strategies related to preservation.

Thus, we ask ourselves, to what extent film preservation strategies can be modified in relation to their environmental impact. Should the loss or non-rescue of certain films be assumed as a strategy of ecological care, in view of a future increasingly threatened by climate change? Can a more democratic access to film archives justify their carbon footprint, beyond the importance of safeguarding historical memory?

With these questions, we aim to delve into the grassroots innovation practices of film archives in relation to new preservation and dissemination strategies in response to climate upheaval and uncertainty. Thus, to reflect on the historical and colonial responsibility of the Global North towards the Global South, as well as on the decision-making process of these institutions in relation to smaller archives, pondering the ethical place of audiovisual memory preservation and its balance with ecological heritage conservation.
Speakers
avatar for Daniel Ángeles

Daniel Ángeles

Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola
Daniel Ángeles studied Communication at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and a Master's Degree in Film Archives at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE). He has worked collaboratively with texts on cinema and audiovisual media for different magazines such as Código... Read More →
avatar for Laura Alhach

Laura Alhach

Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola
Laura Alhach studied Anthropology at Universidad de los Andes , and two Master Degrees in Ethnographic Documentary Film at UCL and Film Archives at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola. She has been Editorial Coordinator of the Audiovisual, Sound and Interactive Media Public Policy of the... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2024 4:30pm - 5:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 3

4:30pm EEST

Innovations in Archive Digitization: The Yle-NOA Partnership and Its Impact on Media Conservation Practices
Wednesday October 16, 2024 4:30pm - 5:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado
The project by Finland's national broadcaster Yle to digitize its 100,000-title video archive using NOA technology has successfully concluded this year. By adopting a variety of tools and workflow system of NOA after an EU-wide tender, Yle has modernized and preserved its extensive legacy SD-video library including various formats like Betacam, Digital Betacam, DVCAM, and 1-inch. The collaboration ensured the longevity and accessibility of crucial media content for future generations.

The paper presented by Pasi Ekman, Yle, and Manuel Corn, NOA, will delve into the strategic partnership between Yle and NOA, highlighting the technological advancements and workflow optimization facilitated at the core by NOA's tools FrameLector, QualityChecker, and the jobDB workflow system. It will explore the project's scope, including the digitization of various video formats and the complex integration with existing systems, to provide a comprehensive overview of the digitization effort's significance. This case study not only illustrates challenges of large-scale video archive conservation, like for example the need for a pragmatic method of video levelling within the lossless domain, but also showcases the innovative solutions deployed to overcome them, marking a significant milestone in the legacy SD-video digitization market.
Speakers
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Pasi Ekman

Finnish Broadcasting Company, Yle
Working for Finnish Broadcasting Company, Yle for nearly three decades, Pasi has been in various roles in the News and Current affairs production and Technology unit. Since 2016 one of his responsibilities has been development of digitalization and restoration of Yle archives, including... Read More →
avatar for Manuel Corn

Manuel Corn

NOA GmbH
Upon earning his engineering degree in media production from the University of Applied Sciences in St. Pölten, Austria, Manuel embarked on a multi-year career journey within the industry. Since 2015, Manuel is working for NOA Archive, a leading global provider of of flexible turnkey... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2024 4:30pm - 5:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 2

4:30pm EEST

LLMs in practice: large-scale topic classification of audiovisual news
Wednesday October 16, 2024 4:30pm - 5:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
In the past years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been increasingly developed and used for various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. As an example, LLMs can be employed for content classification without a need for manual human annotation or exhaustive training datasets. However, such LLMs are associated with high computational cost during inference, preventing their wide adoption in the audiovisual industry, such as large scale audiovisual collections.

In this context, we want to automatically classify broadcast news into topics. Topic classification can be useful for audiovisual content retrieval or monitoring, but remains a challenging problem, particularly due to the difficult task of segmenting continuous feed into homogenous extracts. To solve this issue, we propose a framework applied on French TV and radio news where we transcribe a dataset of 11.7k hours, broadcasted in 2023 on 21 channels with a State-of-the-Art transcription model. A LLM is used in few-shot conversation mode to obtain a topic classification on those transcriptions. We define a topic classification scheme based on the IPTC categories.

Using the generated LLM annotations, we explore the finetuning of a specialized smaller classification model. To evaluate the performances of these models, and to estimate the subjectivity of the topic categorization task, we construct and annotate a test set of 03h44m. We demonstrate that while LLM's inference costs makes them prohibitive for large scale analysis of audiovisual collections, they can be used to generate synthetic datasets used to train less complex models (students) associated to much smaller inference time and better classification performances.

Finally, using an automatic gender classification tool, we compute the speaking time per gender depending on the topic, to determine if some subjects are predominantly reserved to specific genders. We show that women are notably under-represented in subjects such as sports and politics.
Speakers
VP

Valentin Pelloin

INA
Valentin Pelloin joined INA's research team at the end of 2023. His main research objectives are related to Natural Language Processing and Spoken Language Technologies, namely Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), speech and speaker recognition, and end-to-end information extraction... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2024 4:30pm - 5:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
  Parallel Session, Session 1

5:00pm EEST

AI in AV Archives: Potentials for Humanities and Social Sciences Research
Wednesday October 16, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
The transformative potential of applying artificial intelligence in the context of audiovisual archiving has been demonstrated across a spectrum of use cases related to search & exploration, preservation, artistic expression and big-data analysis. This presentation explores research findings regarding the integration of AI solutions specifically in humanities and social sciences research.  

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Multimedia Models (LMMs) poses new opportunities and questions in this area. For instance, LLMs could support the content annotation tasks for researchers working on framing analysis over large amounts of textual data. But more investigation is required to determine how such systems could be fine tuned and integrated into research workflows to deliver satisfactory and trustworthy outcomes. The goal of this research was to develop a roadmap that guides the development and use of LLMs and LMMs in SSH research. It (i) Identifies potential SSH research areas (such as framing analysis) that could benefit from the use of LMMs / LLMs, (ii) Identify limitations and risks of these techniques, (iii) provide recommendations on how LLMs and LMMs could be designed and fine tuned to fit SSH scholar needs.

We will also reflect on how researchers, archives, and the broader cultural sector can contribute to promoting more responsible AI practices in society and raising "AI Literacy." This entails exploring practical ways in which cultural institutions can actively engage with the ethical and societal implications of AI, such as curating exhibitions that examine AI's impact on human lives, hosting workshops to educate the public about AI technologies and their implications, and collaborating with researchers to develop resources that foster critical thinking about AI in diverse communities.
Speakers
avatar for Johan Oomen

Johan Oomen

Manager Research & Heritage Services, Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision
As Head of Research and Heritage Services at the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, Johan Oomen spearheads efforts to provide access to digital heritage. Additionally, he contributes as a researcher at the User-Centric Data Science group of VU University Amsterdam. Next to... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
  Parallel Session, Session 1

5:00pm EEST

Poster Session
Wednesday October 16, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida
TBA
Speakers
avatar for Christine Braemer

Christine Braemer

Head of Digital Heritage and Multimedia Documentation, INA
Christine Braemer joined the Training Department of the French National Audiovisual Institute in 2005 as a training manager. She’s in charge of the Digital Heritage and Multimedia Documentation training programs. In that position, she conceives and organises training courses in... Read More →
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Sanskriti

Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
XW

Xin Wang-Erb

China Contemporary Animation Archive Museum
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Zhuolin Li

School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester
Wednesday October 16, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 3

5:00pm EEST

What does it mean for a media archive to preserve authenticity?
Wednesday October 16, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado
The Preservation and Migration Commission has proposed in June a Seminar on the topic of authenticity, as media archives are expected to ensure quality and trust.

We propose here a summarisation, further thoughts, and some prelimanary conclusions.
Speakers
avatar for Laurent Boch

Laurent Boch

Responsible of Research Projects Administration, Rai
Laurent Boch, graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1990 at “Politecnico di Torino”, has been working for RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana since 1992, at the Centre for Research and Technological Innovation (CRITS). He has been involved in several EU funded project dealing with... Read More →
avatar for Etienne Marchand

Etienne Marchand

Multimedia Engineer, INA
Graduated from EICAR in 2008 after training as a sound engineer, Etienne Marchand has since been working on a great variety of archive documents - audio, video and film - and on every aspect of the technical workflows: assessment, cleaning and physical restoration of audiovisual carriers... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 2
 
Thursday, October 17
 

8:00am EEST

Newcomers' Breakfast
Thursday October 17, 2024 8:00am - 9:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
Speakers
avatar for Gold Premier Sponsor - Iron Mountain Entertainment Services (IMES)

Gold Premier Sponsor - Iron Mountain Entertainment Services (IMES)

Iron Mountain Entertainment Services (IMES)
Iron Mountain Entertainment Services (IMES), the media and entertainment division of Iron Mountain Incorporated, is the go-to physical and digital media archiving service for the media and entertainment industries. IMES partners with clients ranging from the broadcast, film, music... Read More →
Thursday October 17, 2024 8:00am - 9:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Social Events

9:00am EEST

Keynote 2
Thursday October 17, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
TBA
Thursday October 17, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Plenary Session, Keynote

10:00am EEST

FIAT/IFTA Initiatives - MSC Grant
Thursday October 17, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
Hide and Seek: Locating the Agency and Power of Archivists in the Neoliberalist Structures of Audio-Visual Archives in India

This study examines the complex interplay of social, cultural, political, and personal factors within India's national audio-visual archives, focusing on the evolving role of archivists as cultural laborers in an increasingly neoliberal organizational structure. The research aims to elucidate the manifestation of archivists' collective agency within the intricate mechanisms of India's bureaucracy and governmentality, particularly in relation to media archives. The investigation is predicated on the conceptualization of national audio-visual archives as multifaceted cultural institutions tasked with preserving the nation's audio-visual heritage. The study's genesis lies in the observed augmentation of organizational hybridity, primarily driven by the government's digitally optimistic and economically instrumentalist objectives.

Employing a theoretical framework informed by Bourdieu's concept of ‘capital and power relations’, the research critically analyses the autonomy of archivists in the process of 'archivisation' of India's national audio-visual heritage. It explores the dichotomy between 'politicians and bureaucrats' wielding fiscal and social capital, and 'professionals and intellectuals' possessing cultural capital, as manifested in the formal information discourse of archives. Methodologically, the study adopts a qualitative approach, utilizing in-depth interviews with media archivists and historians closely associated with both public and private Indian archives. Thematic analysis of these interviews, will elucidate the conceptual underpinnings of changing dynamics in archiving and heritage management.

By situating film archives at the intersection of archival, cultural, heritage, and media studies, this research aims to contribute to a nuanced understanding of the significance and authority held by those who operate these institutions. The findings are expected to shed light on the personal perspectives of archivists regarding their current capacities and anticipated future responsibilities within the elaborate mechanism of India's audio-visual archival institutions. This study's relevance lies in its potential to inform policy and practice in the management of national audio-visual heritage, particularly in the context of evolving digital landscapes and neoliberal governance structures.

Entangled narratives of restitution between Europe & Africa in audiovisual archives

The restitution of African cultural heritage, stolen during the colonial period and currently kept in European institutions, is an on-going societal challenge at the heart of many discussions in political, cultural and academic circles. It is a tangled topic which is gaining traction in Europe after decades of pressure from African scholars and activists. One notable development has been its increasing presence in the media over the last few years, with numerous news reports, debates, talk-shows, documentaries, and coverage of key events. Thanks to media monitoring and a brief consultation of online collections, it appears that certain narratives on the restitution of African cultural heritage are taking shape across several European countries. 
Among other aspects, these narratives give a prominent role to the French president, bring States as key actors, and shed a spotlight on well-known objects such as the Benin Bronzes, whose photographs are now commonly associated with the topic. By doing so, these narratives tend to simplify the issue in ways that affect both public discourses and public opinions regarding the restitution of African cultural heritage. Therefore, through this project, I will explore European and African audiovisual archives to analyse narratives on the restitution of African cultural heritage, and identify various and potentially competing narratives, discover transnational exchanges, analyse the evolution of discourses across languages and the role played by images, and shed light on processes of inclusion and exclusion of specific actors and institutions. 
In terms of methods, I will use an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from media history and narrative studies, in order to identify how public discourses have evolved across European countries and languages, with a welcome perspective from Ghana which will offer a counterpoint to unearth new media narratives. 
Moderators
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Dana Mustata

Professor, University of Groningen
Dana Mustata is Assistant Professor in Television and Audiovisual Culture at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She has been a principal investigator on the research projects ‘Everyday Matters. Material Historiographies of Television in Cold War Contexts’ and ‘Television... Read More →
Speakers
avatar for Richard Legay

Richard Legay

Postdoctoral Researcher, Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut
Richard Legay is a postdoctoral researcher at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut in Freiburg, Germany, where he works on the restitution of cultural heritage, at the crossroads of media studies, public history and political science. He is a council member of IAMHIST, the International... Read More →
avatar for Dhara Shah

Dhara Shah

Research Associate, Symbiosis Centre for Research in Media and Creative Industries (SCRMCI)
Ms. Dhara Shah holds the position of Research Associate at the Symbiosis Centre for Research in Media and Creative Industries (SCRMCI) and is concurrently pursuing her doctorate. Ms. Shah's academic focus is predominantly on Film Heritage Studies as well as aspects of Film Distribution... Read More →
avatar for Abhishek Roy

Abhishek Roy

Assistant Professor, Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication (SIMC)
Dr. Abhishek Roy is an Assistant Professor at the Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication (SIMC), Pune, and plays a pivotal role in the Symbiosis Center for Research in Media and Creative Industries (SCRMCI). His research areas include Film and Visual Studies, Social Media... Read More →
Thursday October 17, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Plenary Session, FIAT/IFTA Initiatives

11:00am EEST

MORNING BREAK
Thursday October 17, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
Thursday October 17, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Break, Morning Break

11:30am EEST

FIAT/IFTA General Assembly
Thursday October 17, 2024 11:30am - 1:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
Thursday October 17, 2024 11:30am - 1:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Plenary Session

1:00pm EEST

LUNCH BREAK
Thursday October 17, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
Thursday October 17, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Break, Lunch Break

2:00pm EEST

The thrill is gone: Can we get it back?: Tape degradation is (probably) worse than you thought.
Thursday October 17, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado
In 1980, B.B. King gave his second concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival. The recording was made by Swiss sound engineer Philippe Zumbrunn on CJ 87 Pyral tape in NAGRA Master analogue audio. Unfortunately, the polymer base sticks to the adjacent magnetic coating, making it unplayable. When read, the tape sheds and clogs the player.  UNESCO’s Magnetic Tape Alert Project found that degradation problems are common to millions of historic tapes. The Australian National Film and Sound Archive even stated ‘Tape that is not digitised by 2025 will in most cases be lost forever’. But is it so?

The “Play it Again” project at the Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland) uses chemical and physical characterisation to better understand magnetic tape degradation in a collaboration with the Montreux Jazz Digital Project. For Pyral tape, infrared spectra are consistent with other tapes suffering from ‘sticky-shed’. As it is not the magnetic binder that is at fault, but rather the polymer base, this suggests a need for a more careful classification of tape degradation pathways to aid conservation. Physical characterisation using electron microscopy shows micrometre-scale cracks across the tape. Heat treatment does not heal the cracks, meaning that this degradation is irreversible and the magnetic signal will become intrinsically noisier with time. Similarly, in collaboration with the British Film Institute, we are investigating degradation in video tapes. Some of our research questions include: Are physical treatments helping the tapes, or just mitigating the decay symptoms long enough to allow for digitisation? Is attempting to treat tapes doing more harm than good?

So, is 2025 a final deadline? Probably not, however degradation is generally irreversible, eventually rendering magnetic tapes totally unplayable using conventional technologies. We are presently developing a contactless solution using synchrotron X-rays for recovering the recorded information from such degraded tapes.
Speakers
avatar for Jack Harrison

Jack Harrison

Postdoctoral Fellow, Paul Scherrer Institute
Jack Harrison is a physicist and postdoctoral researcher at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. He completed an integrated Masters degree in physics at the University of Oxford (UK) in 2019. His PhD research, completed in 2023, focused on the magnetic properties of alpha-Fe2O3... Read More →
avatar for Charles Fairall

Charles Fairall

Videotape & Engineering Advisor, British Film Institute (BFI)
Charles Fairall has served the BFI National Archive for 35 years as a technologist and as Head of Conservation over the past decade, took primary responsibility for leading the technical teams who pioneered innovative techniques to conserve, preserve and make accessible through digitisation... Read More →
Thursday October 17, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 2

2:00pm EEST

Yes to nostalgia and co. Let's talk through the archives, shall we?
Thursday October 17, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
Daily archives or Archives of the day is a very popular format for accessing specific archive content. What happens when we start to use the “old” daily news as a trigger for intergenerational dialogue? Can we understand each other better through archival footage?

Three generations in particular, Baby Boomers, Generations X and Millennials, are currently meeting each other on Facebook. Each has a different (or none) experience of life under socialism in Czechoslovakia. Across the generations, there are also different views on whether things were better before and where the current society is heading. News events from the 1970s and 1980s evoke a wide range of emotions. Comments on the Czech Television Archive's Facebook page commonly include statements such as "the world was still fine then", but also those that condemn everything from the old days. But does it have to be so black and white?

We think primarily about the relationship between the archival material, the archivist who selects the content, and the audience. Where, how and under what conditions can everyone safely meet and develop these relationships? Can we use a selection of events from the archive, well-aimed questions and sensitively guided discussion to create a space for cultivated dialogue among our viewers? And what can the audience teach us? Why do they watch archival footage? What does it evoke in them? Where, apart from social networks, can we meet and what form to choose? If we open ourselves up to dialogue and resist nothing, we may discover what else archives have to offer society.
Speakers
avatar for Veronika Bokšteflová

Veronika Bokšteflová

Head of Archival Projects, Česká televize (Czech TV)
🔎 We are making the collections accessible to the general public through articles, video collections, new programmes and social media.🪡My work is based on my experiences as Head of PR at the Národní filmový archiv (National Film Archive, Prague), as PR consultant in the private... Read More →
Thursday October 17, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
  Parallel Session, Session 1

2:00pm EEST

FRAME Expert: Video killed the radio stars. Who's next?: Ever evolving landscape, ever evolving jobs
Thursday October 17, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida
The presentation is two part of 30min each.

Data Scientist, Data engineer, Community manager, AI Project Owner, Web editor, Digital Storyteller, Podcaster… Job offers with new job titles seem to pop up every day in the Archives world, and sometimes leave us perplexed.

The ultra-fast development of AI, yesterday analytical, today generative, the need to always create new contents to be visible and reach all audiences, the environmental challenges, the permanent renewal of uses and the technological transformations, create ever-new skills needs.

There is a growing convergence between archive, IT, journalism… It is an ongoing challenge for archive professionals, who must stay up to date, hire the right profiles, develop new professional cultures to dialogue with their colleagues and take - or keep - their place in this changing landscape.

What are these new jobs? How do they relate to the jobs we know? Will they replace them? How do they co-exist and collaborate? How do these new kinds of teams and work organisations work?

Part 1: Will they replace archivists and documentalists? Feedback of 2 professionals (AI product owner, Data Analyst…)

Part 2: Have they a place in archives? Feedback of 2 professionals (Officer for sustainability, Web editor or Community manager...)

Part 3: Exchanges Come and exchange with these new jobs professionals, share your experience, your challenges and your vision of the future during this interactive workshop.
Speakers
avatar for Christine Braemer

Christine Braemer

Head of Digital Heritage and Multimedia Documentation, INA
Christine Braemer joined the Training Department of the French National Audiovisual Institute in 2005 as a training manager. She’s in charge of the Digital Heritage and Multimedia Documentation training programs. In that position, she conceives and organises training courses in... Read More →
avatar for Thomas Monteil

Thomas Monteil

Project manager, consulting department, INA
Thomas Monteil joined INA in 2010 as a sound engineer, specialist in the restoration of radio archives in the Technical Operations Department. Since 2020, he works as project manager in the INA Expertise and Consulting department and designs, coordinates, and leads cooperation projects... Read More →
Thursday October 17, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 3

2:30pm EEST

Digital Detection and Restoration of Analogue Colour Flicker in the VRT Archive: The importance of QC
Thursday October 17, 2024 2:30pm - 3:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado
VRT has 120.000 files (60.000 hours in total), which possibly contain colour flickering. The defect was introduced during bulk digitisation starting in 2015, of Betacam SP and SX to MXF-DV25 from 1980 and 2005. During the project insufficient digitisation quality control was in place.

In order to avoid having to re-digitise 120.000 tapes, VRT was looking for a partner to investigate if a digital detection and correction could be possible. Joanneum Research and HS-Art partnered up to take on this challenge. A solution for the digital detection and restoration of colour flickering has been implemented. For the detection the properties of the colour flickering have been carefully researched and a solution has been developed which covers a wide range of relevant properties, as there are varying degrees of flicker magnitude and varying size of the colour flickering areas. Based on the flicker magnitude and area it is decided which media items and media sections get restored digitally. During restoration the colour information of each affected frame is seamlessly reconstructed from the colour of the neighbouring frames. The presentation will introduce the preservation use case, the solutions workflow, operational experiences and various samples for the detection and restoration of colour flicker.

For this tape digitisation artefact the digital detection and restoration is an ideal solution, as the defect can be detected reliably and restored in high quality, and this in a much more cost efficient way as re-digitisation would have been. In order to avoid the need for re-digitisation or digital restoration its recommended to include appropriate quality control procedures in each current video and film digitisation project right from the beginning.
Speakers
avatar for Peter Schallauer

Peter Schallauer

Smart Media Solutions for Archives, Joanneum Institute
Peter Schallauer is the R&D and product coordinator for audiovisual preservation solutions in the research area Smart Media Solutions at JOANNEUM RESEARCH. He has been working with JOANNEUM as a scientific and development coordinator since 1995 and has created a wide range of digital... Read More →
FH

Franz Hoeller

HS-ART
Franz Höller is the managing director of HS-ART Digital Service GmbH and the product manager for the DIAMANT-Film Restoration software. Franz is also working as a trainer and consultant in the fields of digital film restoration and colorization. As project manager he was involved... Read More →
avatar for Marijn Daniels

Marijn Daniels

Project Manager, VRT
Thursday October 17, 2024 2:30pm - 3:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 2

2:30pm EEST

Exploring the Use and Value of Real Historical Images in Film and Television Dramas: "Taking the Television Drama " and "Blossoms Shanghai" as an Example, Exploring the Practice of Image Archives in Marketization Application
Thursday October 17, 2024 2:30pm - 3:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
At the end of 2023, adapted from the Mao Dun Literature Award work "Blossoms", directed by Kar Wai Wong (HK), the Shanghai local television drama "Blossoms Shanghai" had been launched, with a great reputation. Shanghainese seem to have opened a memory gate, collectively returning to the vibrant 1990s. Many real-life scenes from the past appear in the drama, most of these historical images were provided by Shanghai Audio-Visual Archives.

In 2020, the production team of "Blossoms Shanghai" had contact with Shanghai Audio-Visual Archives. With the aid of the archives of the city of Shanghai in the 1980s to 1990s, they hope to dig deeper into the special historical period of Shanghai and the living conditions of its people. Also, they hope to realistically recreate the scene of the drama at that time.

In the following three years, the Archives provided senior professional editors and researchers with specialized consulting services for the production team, with dedicated personnel conducting targeted queries and organizing information. They provided over 60 historical video archives for the production team of "Blossoms Shanghai", totalling over 1800 minutes. The production team of "Blossoms Shanghai" utilized these rich visual memories to create a 1:1 replica of the street scenes of the old Shanghai at the film and television base. The narrow alleyways, crowded staircases, and aisles filled with things all present the rich fireworks and contemporary atmosphere of Shanghai in the early 1990s in the drama.

From the initial historical scene reference needs of the cooperation to the copyright purchase of precious historical images for drama applications, the Shanghai Audio-Visual Archives and the production team have worked together to meticulously craft a sword for three years, showcasing the touching urban Shanghai of the 1990s. This form of market-oriented application has been continuously carried out by Shanghai Audio-Visual Archives for several years, providing services for multiple dramas, such as the scientist series film "Ye Shuhua" and "Yan Dongsheng", the drama "Great Pudong", " Like a Flowing River", "Faith Makes Great", and so on.

Real historical images not only serve as an important reference for the production team, but also make the content presented in movies and TV dramas more convincing by examining details. In addition, the direct use of real historical images in the drama reflects the historical background while making the content of the film and television drama more creative. In the face of more diversified media communication methods, relying on the collection of historical images, Shanghai Audio-Visual Archives has also planned and produced a variety of short videos on themes, showing the audience the real historical images at that time on new media platforms such as the official WeChat channel and the official account, which has made many people relive the past life, popularize historical knowledge, and gradually build a social public library.
Speakers
WL

Wang Liangming

Shanghai Media Group
Director of the Cooperation and Exchange Department of Shanghai Audio-Visual Archives
Thursday October 17, 2024 2:30pm - 3:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
  Parallel Session, Session 1

3:00pm EEST

(In)Visible 'Yuruparí': Exercises of Political, Collective, Material and Embodied Memory
Thursday October 17, 2024 3:00pm - 3:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
The state television series, ‘Yuruparí: Popular Traditional Art’, documented cultural expressions of peasant, Afro and indigenous populations in Colombia, leaving a memory of the sociopolitical configurations in the midst of the armed conflict of the 1980s. Being the most complete ethnographic record of its time, with rituals, festivals and songs declared Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, the preservation of this collection after its censorship, invites us to reflect on access and restitution policies, in order to unveil untold stories and embedded narratives.

Following the beginning of its restoration in 2013 led by the colombian institutions of Proimágenes Colombia, RTVC-Señal Memoria and Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano, as well as the lead researcher Juan Suárez PhD and international organizations such as the National Museum of African American Culture-Smithsonian/Blake McDowell, FIAT/IFTA, amongst others, 24 of the 86 episodes in 16mm have been completed.

The central figure of Gloria Triana, its main director, has led the conventional narrative around this archive. However, based on the documentation management and contextualization with a gender perspective of the private, state and community archives around this collection, more than 25 participating women who constitute part of Colombian audiovisual history have been made visible; Ann Marie Lóök, Beatriz Barros and María Ema Frade are just some of them.

In this way, in an exercise to recover the oral memory of the production team, the participation of the populations represented in the collective cataloging of their episodes, and the making of a film with the found materials, this project proposes different approaches to reread the sociopolitical narrative(s) imposed in the series and delve into the challenges of access, reuse and promotion of public archives in Colombia.
Speakers
avatar for Laura Alhach

Laura Alhach

Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola
Laura Alhach studied Anthropology at Universidad de los Andes , and two Master Degrees in Ethnographic Documentary Film at UCL and Film Archives at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola. She has been Editorial Coordinator of the Audiovisual, Sound and Interactive Media Public Policy of the... Read More →
Thursday October 17, 2024 3:00pm - 3:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
  Parallel Session, Session 1

3:00pm EEST

Post-Post-mortem: An approach to reviving and preserving video games
Thursday October 17, 2024 3:00pm - 3:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado
The cultural and historical value of videogames can no longer be ignored. Yet, as an interactive medium, video games still continue to provide a challenge in archives and as a historical basis. At the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision we've incorporated a strategy to preserve games in interactive form by leveraging emulation, working together with the rights holders of these games and presenting them to the public in interactive methods to broaden the understanding and highlight this aspect of our archive.

In this session we put all our cards (and controllers) on the table and explain our methodology, how working with the game's creators themselves allows us to bring a new perspective on video game preservation and how to present games as cultural heritage to the general public. Preserving interactive media and software through emulation, may even be applied in fields other than video games, making them valuable tools even if your institution has yet to take the plunge on games-preservation.
Speakers
avatar for Willem Hilhorst

Willem Hilhorst

Media Manager Games & Online, The Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision [Beeld & Geluid]
Willem Hilhorst has been part of the games preservation team at the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision for nearly 3 years. The team is dedicated to preserving Dutch videogames and contextual materials about games at the archive. Willem is currently the media manager for games... Read More →
Thursday October 17, 2024 3:00pm - 3:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 2

3:30pm EEST

AFTERNOON BREAK
Thursday October 17, 2024 3:30pm - 4:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
Thursday October 17, 2024 3:30pm - 4:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Break, Afternoon Break

4:00pm EEST

Meet the Sponsors
Thursday October 17, 2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
Moderators
avatar for Edith Hughes

Edith Hughes

Head of Department, Operational Services, BBC
Edith has worked at BBC Wales for 20 years, 10 of which have been in an archive role. Prior to the BBC, following a period working in both Italy and Belgium, she worked at Welsh language broadcaster S4C, licencing television programmes to other broadcasters worldwide. Two further... Read More →
Thursday October 17, 2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Plenary Session

5:00pm EEST

FIAT/IFTA Awards candidates session
Thursday October 17, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
Thursday October 17, 2024 5:00pm - 6:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Plenary Session, Session 2

7:30pm EEST

Gala Dinner and Awards Show
Thursday October 17, 2024 7:30pm - 11:30pm EEST
Bragadiru Palace
Thursday October 17, 2024 7:30pm - 11:30pm EEST
Bragadiru Palace Calea Rahovei 147-153, București 050892, Rumanía
  Social Events
 
Friday, October 18
 

9:30am EEST

Fame and shame: the archive as a beacon of media unraveling
Friday October 18, 2024 9:30am - 10:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida
In January 2024 the Van Rijn report was published by the Dutch government. “Nothing seen, nothing heard, nothing done”, is the title of this investigative report into the Dutch public broadcasters, the culture and social safety within the organisations. In the years leading up to this report there has been a lot of upheaval about the public and commercial broadcasting organizations in the Netherlands.

Powerplay, intimidation, discrimination, sexual harassment, verbal violence and insecurity about employment were and are common in this industry. The setting of producing creative content with strict deadlines in a complex power system enabled and still enables this. Victims have been speaking up for a while and the report has opened this Pandora’s box. And not only in the Netherlands- in many more countries in Europe there has been much ado about #metoo, misuse of power and socially unsafe situations.

After publication of the Van Rijn report, this will presumably go on for a few more years. Directors and managers of public broadcasting organizations have had to leave. So much so that right now, there are a lot of vacancies and questions about who will take the responsibility of changing the system.
Speakers
avatar for Julia Vytopil

Julia Vytopil

Deputy director, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Julia Vytopil is deputy director of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. She manages 6 operational departments and is responsible for projects such as the Treaury, the new collection building and diversity, inclusion and equality. Julia has been working at Sound and Vision... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2024 9:30am - 10:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 3

9:30am EEST

Migration of 450,000 hours of Videotapes for the National Library of Norway
Friday October 18, 2024 9:30am - 10:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado
Approximately 450,000 hours of broadcast program material on video cassettes have been recorded over the years by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation as part of legal deposit recordings. In order to protect these unique broadcasting assets in the long-term, these video cassettes need to be transferred into archive files to be preserved in the National Library of Norway's digital long-term archive.

For this high-volume migration a specialized quality-controlled QUADRIGA Video digitization system from Cube-Tec International has been installed. An additional QC workflow was customized according to the user’s specifications. The entire ingest system is using 16 broadcast video tape recorders. The installation is now completely in productive use, so that one operator transfers about 128 hours of video in one work shift per day in a fully quality-controlled operation.

For the DVCAM cassette collection a special direct readout feature is used. This provides users with real-time monitoring and archiving of the compressed digital video streams straight from DVCAM video cassettes. Working directly from the original format not only improves error detection levels, but the implementation of proprietary algorithms also enables users to apply error correction years, or even decades, after the migration has happened.

The presentation will be given jointly by Stian Rishaug (National Library Norway) who will explain how the installation was realised and the operation is driven, and Tom Lorenz (Cube-Tec International) who will describe how the technical solution was adapted to special requirements at National Library Norway.
Speakers
SR

Stian Rishaug

National Library of Norway
avatar for Tom Lorenz

Tom Lorenz

Managing Partner, Cube-Tec International GmbH
Tom Lorenz studied sound engineering in Berlin from 1987 to 1993. After receiving his degree as Diplom-Tonmeister he worked as support engineer for an audio restoration system. From 1995 to 2002 he was employed as a project engineer for international sound and radio studio installations... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2024 9:30am - 10:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 2

9:30am EEST

When beauty talks: Designing a gender-based longitudinal micro-analysis of TV interviews
Friday October 18, 2024 9:30am - 10:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
Despite considerable research on explicitly sexualized talk as a form of gender micro-aggression, hostility and harassment, it is still unclear how does talking about less-explicitly sexualizing but no less gendered issue such as beauty, shape the paralinguistics of interaction. Taking the topic of human beauty as our case study and utilizing short moments from TV and film archives, we therefore ask:

1) How does talking about an explicitly gendered issue (beauty) contribute to the overall gendering of audiovisual cultural objects?

2) How do the paralinguistic aspects of audiovisual gendered interactions shift overtime?

This proof of concept (POC) research is testing the usefulness of experimental AI methods to reveal the multilayered effect of gender on interactions. The POC consists of two one-on-one interviews in which beauty is a specifically mentioned topic, with two women beauty queens. The two samples represent two periods of “beauty talk” – one from the 1970ies and one from the 2010s.

Following the design of a set of coding labels, we will index two videos manually and then compare the qualitative process to an automatic indexing of these videos using an AI indexing tool. Among its analytical insights, we will automatically extract multimodal information and insights such as automatic transcription of spoken Hebrew; Speaker identification, vocal effects (such as laughter or long silences), sentiment analysis, and more.

The comparison will help identify specific spoken/visual/vocal profiles of both interviewers and interviewees, as well as of the interactions between them and to set the Beauty features that would be included in the training of a future study, on a large scale database of interviews. Using both human and AI labeling, this POC research hopes to contribute to a more precise hermeneutic interpretations of the human beauty concept and to enable a “distant reading, viewing, and listening” of these multimodal artifacts.
Speakers
VS

Vered Silber-Varod

Principal Consultant for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences (DHSS), Tel Aviv University
Dr. Vered Silber-Varod is the principal Consultant for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences (DHSS) at Tel Aviv University’s AI and Data Science center (TAD center). She has experience in leading research projects in the field of DHSS. Her academic work is interdisciplinary, mainly... Read More →
DK

Dana Kaplan

The Open University of Israel
Dr. Dana Kaplan is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Political Science, and Communication, and the Program in Cultural Studies at the Open University of Israel. A cultural sociologist specializing in cultural class analysis and critical heterosexuality studies... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2024 9:30am - 10:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
  Parallel Session, Session 1

10:00am EEST

Automatic transcription applied to the full INA collection: challenges and opportunities
Friday October 18, 2024 10:00am - 10:30am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado
Speakers
OS

Olivio Segura

AI Project Manager, INA
Friday October 18, 2024 10:00am - 10:30am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 2

10:00am EEST

The metadata mirror: the way we were
Friday October 18, 2024 10:00am - 10:30am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
During the footage research for the production of a documentary about sexism in the world of sport, it is highlighted how not only the audiovisual documents themselves but also the metadata that accompany them reflect the model of society and the framework of thought at the moment in which they were created. The challenge of the research was to find fragments that showed attitudes that attract attention today for their sexist tone but that at the time were considered normal and therefore were not described as such in the metadata. The research had to be done blindly, listening to interviews, anticipating the results and thinking about how they would have been described years ago, appealing to the memory of the oldest workers in the medium and navigating the ancient thesaurus, which is in itself a reflection of this thinking 40 years ago when women's sport was not at the same level as men's.  

Once the material has been located and the documentary made, the following question arises: Should we or should we not correct the metadata in our MAM system and update the description according to the current parameters? Our archive has the dual mission of preserving the audiovisual heritage while serving current broadcasting. To fulfill the first mission shouldn't we keep the material with the original metadata? Whereas, to fulfill the second mission, shouldn't we update them to facilitate research for the production of new material?

We will accompany the presentation of a small sample of the material found during the research to exemplify the need to revise the metadata to make these items accessible for future productions.
Speakers
CC

Cristina Canales

TV3-CCMA
Documentalist and audiovisual researcher at TV3, the Catalan Public Television in Barcelona, since 1999. Over the years I have worked in different types of news, documentary and entertainment productions, but in recent years I have specialized in sports programs, both in the search... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2024 10:00am - 10:30am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
  Parallel Session, Session 1

10:00am EEST

FRAME Mentoring - Meet the 2024 mentees and discover their access projects
Friday October 18, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida
Since 2022, the FRAME Training programme, organized by INA and supported by EBU Academy and FIAT/IFTA, has a new module for junior audiovisual archive professionals: FRAME Mentoring

Come and meet the two 2024 mentees and discover their projects:

Nevena Popovic, RTS Serbian Broadcasting Corporation - MORE THAN A GAME
Artistic and philosophical approach to the world of archival footage
Working in the archives can become a game and subsequently more than a game and more than a work.
The world of audio-visual archives has endless possibilities.
Possibilities that never cease to inspire and encourage artist to find new ways to express oneself.
Archive, besides being for a long time a means to illustrate past, has over time proven to be a powerful medium in the world of artistic expression.
Different ways of exploring the potential of the footages kept in television vaults, brought them a second life by producing a new and unique piece of art.
Development of an artistic work by adding new music and new voices/narratives to silent videos came out of the idea and desire to break the mold from the current and past offerings in the world of art and archive.
What is the artistic intention?
Breaking away from the constraints of TV formats and social media to bring new experience to "real life" became an imperative, whether in museums, cultural institutions or music clubs.
Creative and experimental approach in the use of archive began as a game to motivate the archivists to be fond of hard and meticulous work.
In time, for all the participants in the process, something inspiring came out of exploration of metatextuality and intertextuality found in the archival videos and metadata.
Working in the imaginative registers led from random words found on old archival description cards to slam poetry and music piece.
Studying hours and hours of silent found footage inspired a variation in the approach and use of old videos: three different narratives are used on a same video which slightly alters with every new narrative. The original video is no longer only an archival video, now it becomes a fiction, a poetry, a drama.
In a word: performance art.
What immerged from the experience?
Previous generations of authors have written for television, new generations use television as a medium to write.

Jakub Hošek, Czech Television - THE REPORTERS PROJECT
The Reporters project, created by the Czech TV Archive in collaboration with the Czech TV cultural website ctart.cz, is being developed with mentorship from the FRAME Mentoring Programme. The series explores the functioning of news services during the communist era in the 1980s. Combining archival footage from TV news with contemporary interviews with former reporters, it aims to provide historical context in an engaging and educational way. Each of the five episodes, lasting around ten minutes, focuses on the story of one reporter, blending archival materials with their narration. The project also examines the specific challenges faced by journalists working under a communist dictatorship. The series will be published online on Czech TV's VOD platform, offering a product that is both informative and entertaining.
Speakers
avatar for Thomas Monteil

Thomas Monteil

Project manager, consulting department, INA
Thomas Monteil joined INA in 2010 as a sound engineer, specialist in the restoration of radio archives in the Technical Operations Department. Since 2020, he works as project manager in the INA Expertise and Consulting department and designs, coordinates, and leads cooperation projects... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 3

10:30am EEST

Audiovisual Archives and its migration into the Cloud: A change in the technology, a change in the heart.
Friday October 18, 2024 10:30am - 11:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado
The presentation proposes reflection on the choice made by Group Globo of Communications of hiring Google Cloud.

The decision of contracting Cloud companies was taken by Globo in alignment with the world’s tendency in detecting in cloud computing an opportunity to reduce expenses and be more effective. Its audiovisual documents’ back up are now stored in the Cloud. There was a project developed at Globo’s Archives to send to Google Cloud all previous documents up until the contract with Google, whether those were born digital or were digitized.

The numbers of this project are presented and studied and lead to a brief check of pros and cons of the usage of cloud services. This brief talk should contemplate the migration to the Cloud and its process, which includes, for example, the interoperability with systems such as Diva and Vizrt.

Other services provided by the Cloud are taken under consideration, such as usage of artificial intelligence to input basic metadata on documents and face recognition algorithm.

The approach to the matter has its foundation in basically two columns: literary references, and the analysis of interviews conducted with collaborators of Globo, each of them connected to the process of cloudification, but through different perspectives.
Speakers
avatar for Daniela Pinheiro

Daniela Pinheiro

Researcher, Fundação Getúlio Vargas
Daniela Pinheiro has vast experience in the audiovisual production, and is a specialist in audiovisual archives. She worked as a researcher at Grupo Globo (TV Globo) for almost eight years. There, she used to conduct image researches, to insert metadata in audiovisual documents and... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2024 10:30am - 11:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 2

10:30am EEST

TBA
Friday October 18, 2024 10:30am - 11:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado
Friday October 18, 2024 10:30am - 11:00am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 2

11:00am EEST

MORNING BREAK
Friday October 18, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
Friday October 18, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Break, Morning Break

11:30am EEST

Archive Iraq: Films are rising again. How, when and who?
Friday October 18, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
The paper titled "Archive Iraq: Films are rising again. How, when and who?" by Wareth Kwaish, a Project Officer of the Iraqi Archive Project, discusses the efforts to preserve Iraq's cinematic heritage. It highlights the historical richness of Iraqi visual memory, emphasizing the importance of films as cultural, historical, and social treasures.

The paper outlines the establishment of the Committee for the Iraqi Visual Memory, supported by the French Embassy and Expertise France, to restore and digitize over 100 Iraqi films. The project involves training Iraqi professionals in film assessment, inventory, restoration, and digitization techniques.

Objectives include creating a digital film library accessible for education and research, raising societal awareness on film preservation, and preserving Iraq's cultural legacy. The methodology encompasses film selection, evaluation, restoration, and digitization, coupled with community engagement. The project aims to ensure the continuity of Iraqi visual memory, contributing to the larger Iraq Archive Project, preserving the nation's heritage for future generations and global appreciation.
Speakers
WK

Wareth Kwaish

Project officer of the Iraqi Archive Project
Friday October 18, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
  Parallel Session, Session 1

11:30am EEST

Crossing Borders Archives: The circulation of stock shots in audiovisual media
Friday October 18, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
In the contemporary landscape of news media, we encounter a realm where simulation and stereotypes pervade, shaping our perception of reality. Understanding the visual language of news media is crucial for unraveling how representations are meticulously crafted. It's posited that the visual narrative across various media platforms has become increasingly uniform, a trend significantly influenced by the reliance on stock shots. This practice has seen a noticeable uptick in the last two decades, paralleling the archival turn in media production. Rather than consistently sourcing new material, the efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and digital advancements have led journalists to frequently repurpose stock shots for visual narratives in their reporting.

The ANR CROBORA project, in collaboration with prominent entities like Ina, Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana, and Mediaset, seeks to cast light on the repetitive and emblematic use of stock shots in audiovisual media. By amassing a collection of 35,000 stock footage reflecting European integration from two decades of French and Italian television broadcasts and selected web narratives, the project endeavors to analyze this corpus of mediatized visual memory. A sophisticated visualization platform and analytical tools have been developed to navigate this extensive and diverse dataset, addressing the challenges of collecting, organizing, annotating, and visualizing a large-scale and varied collection of audiovisual content.

This communication aims to delve deeper into the methodologies of data collection, annotation, and explorative analysis, leveraging both metadata and the audiovisual data itself. Through our data-driven approach, our research highlights the construction of collective imagination through the media's repetitive imagery, investigating how audiovisual production reinforces stereotypes, thereby influencing cultural dynamics and visual culture.
Speakers
SS

Shiming Shen

Côte d'Azur University
Shiming SHEN is currently a PhD student and Temporary Teaching and Research Associate (ATER) in Communication Studies at Université Côte d’Azur. Funded by ANR CROBORA, her research project studies the principles of media semiotics and digital humanities to delve into conventional... Read More →
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Matteo Treleani

Côte d'Azur University
Matteo Treleani is a semiotician and media analyst and Associate Professor in Media Studies at the Université Côte d’Azur (UCA). He holds a PhD in history and semiotics of texts and images from Paris Diderot University (2012) which was funded by the Institut national de l’audiovisuel... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
  Parallel Session, Session 1

11:30am EEST

Evaluation of Speaker Diarization Systems: Developing an app for testing and documentation
Friday October 18, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida
In the audiovisual archive of the Bayerischer Rundfunk, speaker diarization systems are used to extract metadata from audio content. These systems can automatically annotate who spoke when in an audio stream, but yet their performance does not match the one of an archivist given the same task. That calls for evaluation. Therefore, as the final project of my traineeship, I have developed an application for testing the speaker diarization systems used in the Bayerischer Rundfunk, introducing scores and error rates.

As of yet, an interactive prototype has been built, showcasing a user interface for the application. Furthermore, it has been laid down how to access the speaker diarization systems via API, and several Python scripts have been written for converting mining results as well as importing metrics from an open-source benchmarking toolkit. This toolkit provides a set of classes to compare the output of speaker diarization systems to perfectly annotated reference data. Finally, a series of tests has been conducted which has proven the concept to be applicable for reproducible testing.

Using the application, single versions of speaker diarization systems as well as different speaker diarization systems can be compared quality-wise. This will make it easier to decide whether to implement said services, and secure the audiovisual archive's data quality.
Speakers
FH

Frank Hebestreit

Bayerischer Rundfunk München
After completing the "Texte.Zeichen.Medien" master's program in Literary Studies at the University of Erfurt, Frank Hebestreit started his traineeship at Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich in co-operation with the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt. In late 2023, he graduated as... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 3

12:00pm EEST

Enhancing SECAM Video Quality: A Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network Approach
Friday October 18, 2024 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida
A Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network (RCNN) is being introduced to rectify inherent flaws in the SECAM format, a system extensively utilised for archiving and production from 1967 to the 1980s in many countries. Videos, preserved on archived magnetic tapes,  like two-inch tapes that encapsulate the full bandwidth of the composite signal, and U-Matic format tapes that conserve colour using a “colour under” scheme.  

These systematic artefacts, originating from past technological choices rather than ageing, were barely perceptible on 65 cm CRT TVs during their broadcast era. However, they are now deemed unacceptable for display on contemporary technology.

In the PAL format, traditional signal processing techniques enhanced the demodulation and separation of luminance and chrominance. Yet, these methods, such as linear filtering with comb filters or FFT domain filtering, are incompatible with the FM modulation of colour in SECAM. To our knowledge, no technology was previously available to enhance the quality of demodulated composite SECAM video. The proposed RCNN tackles systematic imperfections like blurring (resolution loss), mutual crosstalk between chrominance and luminance, 12.5 Hz colour flicker, and chroma and luma noise. The flicker of horizontal lines is a consequence of the unfiltered vertical sampling of chroma in the SECAM standard.

To train the RCNN, a degraded dataset was generated by processing recent videos through a physical SECAM modulator/demodulator chain. The RCNN also transforms interlaced frames into progressive images, thereby enhancing visual quality and rendering them more suitable for further processing by other super-resolution AI techniques. The processing is executed at a rate of several frames per second on a recent GPU on the already demodulated image YDrDb. This enables the treatment of programmes that have already been digitised and compressed, without requiring access to the original composite video.
Speakers
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Louis Laborelli

INA
Louis Laborelli joined INA research department in 1992 to work on computer assisted animation and later moved to video processing. Holder of a Magistere (Master) in computer science and engineering from Nice/ Sophia Antipolis University and an MBA from Sorbonne (IAE) he contributed... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2024 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 3

12:00pm EEST

The Big 'M' in GLAM: Planning and Performing Media Migrations for AV Collections
Friday October 18, 2024 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado
Migration is a key preservation action for digital collections. It is unavoidable; challenges like planned hardware obsolescence, format obsolescence, and the staggering storage needs of digital data are some of the issues that pose risks to the long-term accessibility of born-digital materials. It is not a walk in the park. Successful migration requires significant technical expertise, support, and planning. Irrecoverable data loss can easily occur if it is not performed well. For a process that is so unforgiving, it is naturally a daunting task for many, particularly for those embarking on it for the first time. Using several case studies, this presentation seeks to consolidate lessons, identify considerations, and provide guidance to those embarking on the great migration.
Speakers
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Matthew Yang

New York University
Matthew is Research Fellow at the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Network (DPOE-N) and Audio Preservation Intern at CUNY TV. He worked in digital preservation and film restoration at the Asian Film Archive in Singapore where he successfully managed restorations that premiered... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2024 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 2

12:00pm EEST

The magic of opening up the archive; what’s up with that data in the magic hat?
Friday October 18, 2024 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
The mass-scale digitisation project Images for the Future project, concluded in 2014, allowed an important part of Dutch audiovisual heritage to be digitised and preserved. The promised land of wide accessibility for the public however could not be reached at that time due to copyright restrictions limiting the re-exposure of our archival treasures.  

Since the EU Copyright Directive introduced mechanisms that allow for out-of-commerce works to be published on cultural heritage portals, unless rights holders opt-out, Sound & Vision started to prepare the potential mass-scale publication of content. However, incomplete, erroneous, or conflicting information complicates the selection of material suitable for public release. Additionally, inconsistent metadata quality and lack of standardization for diverse audiences obstruct efficient and appropriate online publication. In this presentation the audience is invited at Sound & Visions kitchen table to take a closer look at how we analyse collection-assets’ data to establish (i) if they can be labled as an Out of Commerce work, (ii) if they are technically ready for publication and (iii) what metadata changes are potentially needed in order to present them in an understandable way to a wider audience.
Speakers
avatar for Tim Manders

Tim Manders

Advisor, Beeld & Geluid
Tim Manders works at the Exploration department of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. He works on all kinds of metadata related topics varying from operationalising automatic annotation techniques to safeguarding knowledge about the history of Sound & Vision’s changing... Read More →
avatar for Marjolein Steeman

Marjolein Steeman

Senior Media Manager Optimisation, Beeld & Geluid
Marjolein Steeman is Preservation Officer at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. In this function she guards sustainable access to the content of the national audiovisual archive; working on preservation planning, and a range of projects on transforming metadata. For the... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2024 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
  Parallel Session, Session 1

12:30pm EEST

AI-deas in action. Transforming roles in ATRESMEDIA Archive
Friday October 18, 2024 12:30pm - 1:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida
In addition to being a tool, technology has a transformative power. And in the field of audiovisual information management, traditionally based on a high investment in human resources, the use of algorithms has a substantial impact. After a first phase mainly focused on the use of automatic transcription and facial recognition tools, the ATRESMEDIA Archive is now evolving into the use of new generative AI. A technological project framed in a broader objective such as the transformation of the profile of the professionals who work in the Archive. What will be the identity of this new profile, its survival and its place in the ecosystem of television production, are the main incentive to actively promote and monitor from the Archive itself a technological change that sooner or later will in any case be unstoppable
Speakers
avatar for Eugenio López de Quintana Sáenz

Eugenio López de Quintana Sáenz

Head of Archives, ATRESMEDIA
Eugenio López de Quintana is Head of Archive at Atresmedia, where he has been actively involved in the definition, development and implementation of in-company archive management systems and the overall processes required for the network’s transition to digital. He is a former... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2024 12:30pm - 1:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Florida Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 3

12:30pm EEST

Keeping Up with Contemporary History: The Romanian Revolution as a Site for Audiovisual Experiment
Friday October 18, 2024 12:30pm - 1:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado
It is by now widely acknowledged among scholars that television as a medium played a pivotal role in the unfolding of the Romanian Revolution of 1989. This assertion is commonly understood to highlight the significance of the Romanian Revolution as a historical event that was broadcast in real-time, thus marking the inauguration of a new era in the history of media. It also implies the gradual change of status of the Romanian Television as an institution during those days, from catalyst of popular discontent to agent of large-scale manipulation.

This paper will thus be developed around two axis. The first one will posit that the symbolic supremacy of the Revolution among neighbouring countries and its endurance over time predominantly rely on the creation of the creation of what Cahiers du cinéma film critics Serge Daney and Serge Toubiana referred to as “trademark images” – convenient clichés which “prevent any other image from being seen” (no. 268-269), while helping to create an easily recognisable, sellable image of the event. By examining theoretical frameworks proposed by Traverso or Siani-Davies, this first axis will uncover those sequences that conform to a sensationalist revolutionary imagery.

The second axis will provide a corrective to this reading. It will highlight precisely those images which do not conform to preconceived schemes. It will aim to show both the occurrences in which the newly liberated television attempted to incorporate the democratic regime into its audiovisual treatment (a more egalitarian distribution of speeches, panoramic movements showing the personnel behind cameras, etc.) and those that depict the revolution as a site of hesitancy, confusion, and mistakes – in short, as an authentic bearer of contradictory possibilities for the future. The complexity of the event will emerge according to the capabilities of live broadcasting within a nascent free television, providing a valuable lesson of reportage for generations to come.
Speakers
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Victor Morozov

Trinity College Dublin
Victor Morozov - Bachelor’s degree in Film and Drama Studies at Université Grenoble-Alpes in Grenoble, France, and at Trinity College Dublin (1 year Erasmus academic exchange). Master’s degree in Film Studies at Université Paris VIII Vincennes–Saint-Denis in Paris. Currently... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2024 12:30pm - 1:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Colorado Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session, Session 2

12:30pm EEST

The Four Commandments for automated event description: Changing the traditional approach to the documentary process
Friday October 18, 2024 12:30pm - 1:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
We propose a brief presentation of four conceptual elements that may underpin an automated cataloging process of archival materials, summarizing them through a free adaptation of the biblical Commandments. The chosen ones are:
 
• Thou shalt describe events about all things.
• Thou shalt univocal identify the event in linked properties and relationships.
• Thou shalt use equivalences to transform the captured external data into your metadata  standards.
• Thou shalt describe the documents in cascade.
 
These four theoretical pillars arise from an idea that challenges the traditional approach to the documentary process by reversing the object of analysis, which almost always has focused on the document. Therefore, the first and main commandment relies on this thought, and encourages us  to do it the other way around,  going from the analysis of the documents that report events to analyse events captured in documents... And let's see what happens.
 
The second commandment, and based on the experience of the semantic web, indicates that events must be defined as unique concepts described in properties and relationships, which are linked to other concepts contained in controlled vocabularies.
 
The third statement focuses on the capture of external data applying the principle of equivalence based on the transformation of these data into metadata with the desired standardized form in order to assign each concept its equivalent in the field where it is represented.
 
And finally, the fourth commandment suggests the process of describing documents in cascade mode. That is, to use the common metadata of an event and replicate them in all the documents that refer to it.
Speakers
avatar for Ferran Aragó

Ferran Aragó

Audiovisual Documentalist & Researcher, CCMA-TV3
I'm graduated in History, with mention in Contemporary History and in Information and Documentation Sciences. Currently, and due to a reckless impulse, I'm pursuing a PhD in Journalism and Applied Communication at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). For 19 years, I've worked... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2024 12:30pm - 1:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucharest - Arizona
  Parallel Session, Session 1

1:00pm EEST

LUNCH BREAK
Friday October 18, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
Friday October 18, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Break, Lunch Break

2:00pm EEST

Discussion Round Tables
Friday October 18, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
















Friday October 18, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session

3:30pm EEST

AFTERNOON BREAK
Friday October 18, 2024 3:30pm - 4:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
Friday October 18, 2024 3:30pm - 4:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Break, Afternoon Break

4:00pm EEST

Save Your Archives
Friday October 18, 2024 4:00pm - 4:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
Friday October 18, 2024 4:00pm - 4:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Plenary Session

4:30pm EEST

TBA
Friday October 18, 2024 4:30pm - 5:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
RAI Film Digitisation Project ? Neck-deep in the digital oil?
Friday October 18, 2024 4:30pm - 5:00pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Parallel Session

5:00pm EEST

Closing Session
Friday October 18, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
Moderators
avatar for Virginia Bazán Gil

Virginia Bazán Gil

Deputy Director TVE Archive, RTVE
Virginia Bazán-Gil is Deputy Director of the TVE archive at RTVE Archive, where she is in charge of innovation projects connected with automatic metadata creation and image recognition tools mainly for the archive but working with other business areas of the company, such as Innovation... Read More →
Speakers
avatar for Brecht Declercq

Brecht Declercq

President - Head of Archives, FIAT/IFTA - RSI
Brecht Declercq (MA, MSc) is the President of FIAT/IFTA, the world association of media archives, and Head of Archives at RSI, the public broadcasting of Italian-speaking Switzerland. From 2013 until 2022 he was responsible for the preservation of the Flemish audiovisual heritage... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
  Plenary Session

5:30pm EEST

Closing Drinks
Friday October 18, 2024 5:30pm - 6:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest
Friday October 18, 2024 5:30pm - 6:30pm EEST
Hotel Sheraton Bucarest Calea Dorobanți 5-7, București 010551, Rumanía
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