FIAT/IFTA World Conference
Lisbon, 12th-15th October 2007
"Exploring new worlds. Archives meet the interactive challenge"
Outline of the programme :
Friday 12 October 2007
15.00 - 18.00 : Registration in Sana Lisboa Hotel
13.00 - 15.00 : Commission meetings in Sana Lisboa Hotel
15.00 : Executive Council meeting in Sana Lisboa Hotel
19.00 : Opening cocktail in Sana Lisboa Hotel
Saturday 13 October 2007
08.00 – 12.00 : Registration in Sana Lisboa Hotel
09.30 - 10.30 : Plenary - Conference Opening
Welcome by host and FIAT president
Greetings from sister organisations and partners
Keynote speech - What do we mean by interactive? What are the current & future trends facing our archives?
10.30–11.00 : Coffee break
11.00-13.00 : Plenary - Exploitation of Media archives - new demands and new challenges
11.00 - 12.00 : A panel discussion on the strategies and objectives of a range of archives addressing the needs of different challenges, audiences and markets in the new interactive environment: Participants from archive from BBC, RAI, INA, ITN, CBS, RTE, B&G, Hungary will address a pre-determined list of questions addressing exploitation of contents: Outline consumer trends: video on demand, access programs on all levels of use. Why are there different offers for different audiences/markets ? i.e. commercial, educational public. Segmenting the market. How to re-present material once it is digitized for different markets.
12.00 - 12.45 : Partnership initiatives - between libraries and institutions: cooperation models such as the DR project with Danish archives & libraries and the European Digital Library project.
12.45-13.30 : What are the key issues to be addressed in the Interactive world: Rights, Accessibility, legal issues, identifying new revenue streams. Presented by FOCAL International speakers
13.30-15.00: Lunch
15.00-17.30 : Workshops- continuing the theme of Exploitation of Media archives - new demands and new challenges
15.00-16.00 : Workshop 1 in Plenary room: A SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges) analysis of issues facing archives in the new digital interactive world. Led by the FIAT P&P Commission.
15.00-16.00 : Workshop 2 in Workshop Room 1: Different kinds of partnership examples - DR TV ; and Sony.
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30 -17.30 : Workshop 3 in Plenary room: Detailed examples of Open access projects from BBC and RTE
16.30-17.30 : Workshop 4 in Workshop Room 1: A panel of users explaining what they want from archives - What are their expectations
15.00-17.30 : Workshop 5 in Workshop room 2 : Latin American Workshop.
19.00: Viewing of FIAT Television Archive entries
Sunday 14 October 2007
09.30-11.00: Plenary - Media technology and its impact on Media archives. What are the drivers?
Industry representatives should be part of a panel discussion - challenge them with our issues (You tube, Google, Sony, etc.)
11.00 - 11.30: Coffee break
11.30-13.30 : Plenary - Overall theme is Media technology and its impact on Media archives. What are the results?
Issues to be discussed from a metadata / media management point of view:
Dilemmas caused by user generated content and metadata
User generated content from the public.
Tagging vs. cataloguing
Growing amount of content makes authenticity check very difficult.
How reliable is non-professional creation of audiovisual content? Quality control inside the community. - "Rip 'n mix culturist" should present his/her views.
The consequences of convergence of distribution, media, consumer vs producer
Traditional borders between distributing channels are torn down? (TV content on mobile devices etc.).
New distribution channels and platforms create new programme genres! - (How) are they archived?
Interactive TV and TV archives.
Tools give the possibility to multi-task jobs
Will we archive the programme or the mediaobjects?
Results of MMC seminar in Vienna
13.30-15.00: Lunch
15.00 : Workshops - continuing the theme of Media technology and its impact on Media archives
15.00-16.15: Workshop 6 in Plenary Room: Led by FIAT MMC. Outsourcing is solving all the problems? (Outsourcing storage, cataloguing, digitising, etc.?) - Case studies, quality discussion
15.00 -16.15 : Workshop 7 in Workshop Room 1 : Modern technologies: The end of the physical archives? Experiences from fully digitised (radio) archives
15.00-16.15 : Workshop 8 in Workshop Room 2 : African Workshop
16.30 : Excursion and visit to Portuguese archives
18.30: Return to hotel
Monday 15 October 2007
09.30 -11.30: Plenary - Academics and Media archives :"Interactions between Archives and the Academic Community" (chaired by Steve Bryant) with contributions from Claude Mussou on INA study of which academic disciplines are using archive materials; Peter Dusek and Alexander Hecht on the MA in archival sciences at Vienna University; Bert Hogenkamp on the archiving of Parliamentary recordings; (trailing a workshop); Steve Bryant on the BFI Channel Four Conference; Pelle Snickars of The Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images ; A local academic on the Portuguese situation (trailing a workshop); Brief update on Video Active. The plenary is a general collection of issues relating to aspects of archive interactions with academics and two of the subjects covered will lead to workshops.
11.30-12.00: Coffee break
12.00 -13.00: To be filled
13.00-15.00: Lunch
15.00 Workshops
15.00 - 16.30 : Workshop 9: In Plenary Room: Archiving Parliamentary recordings. Chair: Bert Hogenkamp. Potential contributors: Peter Dusek, Steve Bryant, Mauro Zaccaria (European Parliament)
15.00-16.30 : Workshop 10: In Workshop Room 1: Portuguese TV Archives and academic access (or the study of Portuguese TV History). Potential contributors: Prof. Carlos Abrantes; Ana Franqueira of SIC; Hilario Lopes of RTP; Aleksander Lavrencic of TVS Slovenia. Or Video Active update
15.00-16.30: Workshop 11: In Workshop Room 2: Training Workshop led by Prestospace experts
16.30-17.00: Coffee break
17.00-17.30 : Review of the conference and 30th Anniversary celebration
19.00: Coaches leave hotels for closing dinner
20.00: Closing dinner and FIAT Television Awards presentation at Belem Bar Café - http://www.belembarcafe.com/site/
As an Affiliate organization, FOCAL Members can take advantage of the same registration fees as FIAT members.
Before 31st July 450 Euros, after 31st July 500 Euros.
FOR REGISTRATION: http://www.fiatifta.org/conferences/conferences/past/lisbon_2007/index.html
