Safeguarding Our Audiovisual Heritage: A World Challenge
30-09-2004 (Paris)
The preservation of the analogue film heritage and constraints and possibilities offered by the digital media is on the agenda of the annual conference of the International Federation of Film Archives FIAT/IFTA, a close partner to UNESCO in its action in the area of audiovisual archives, that takes place in Paris, France from 15-19 October 2004.
Hosted by the French Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA), and under the patronage of the President of the French Senate, the conference covers themes relating to the preservation of analogical heritage as well as the constraints and possibilities offered by digital media. Among the working sessions are:
Selection: why and how to assess the value of our archives?
A memory in danger: what will remain of our audiovisual and sound heritage by 2020?
Migration towards digital formats: how to design a migration strategy, which technical options?
Digital future: what impact will digital archives have on our activities, what can we expect from new technologies?
In addition, there will be special sessions or workshops, including a debate on the digital future assembling technology providers and users, and special visits to the Inathèqu e consultation room at the Bibliothèque nationale de France or to the INA Archive Department in Bry-sur-Marne.
UNESCO works to help in developing audiovisual archival infrastructure, trained professionals and accepted professional reference points to ensure the safeguard and preservation of the audiovisual heritage of humanity.
In 2003, UNESCO’s General Conference adopted a “Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage”, a declaration of principle designed to assist Member States in preparing national policies to preserve, and provide access to, digital heritage.
FIAT/IFTA was set up in Rome in 1977, by ARD (Germany), BBC (UK), INA (France) and RAI (Italy). With 180 members in over 70 countries, FIAT/IFTA is presently the most important professional organization in the field of broadcasting archives. Its membership is drawn from public and commercial broadcasters, national audiovisual archives and technical companies catering to the broadcasting industry.
FIAT/IFTA is also a member of the Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA), an umbrella group of organizations whose primary objective is the support of professional audiovisual archive activities, and whose membership is primarily institutional and international (worldwide or regional).
In addition, there will be special sessions or workshops, including a debate on the digital future assembling technology providers and users, and special visits to the Inathèqu e consultation room at the Bibliothèque nationale de France or to the INA Archive Department in Bry-sur-Marne.
UNESCO works to help in developing audiovisual archival infrastructure, trained professionals and accepted professional reference points to ensure the safeguard and preservation of the audiovisual heritage of humanity.
In 2003, UNESCO’s General Conference adopted a “Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage”, a declaration of principle designed to assist Member States in preparing national policies to preserve, and provide access to, digital heritage.
FIAT/IFTA was set up in Rome in 1977, by ARD (Germany), BBC (UK), INA (France) and RAI (Italy). With 180 members in over 70 countries, FIAT/IFTA is presently the most important professional organization in the field of broadcasting archives. Its membership is drawn from public and commercial broadcasters, national audiovisual archives and technical companies catering to the broadcasting industry.
FIAT/IFTA is also a member of the Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA), an umbrella group of organizations whose primary objective is the support of professional audiovisual archive activities, and whose membership is primarily institutional and international (worldwide or regional).
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