AMIA 2013 Preliminary Program

The Preliminary Conference Program is available for download –  download the 2013 Preliminary Program here, or click here to see it online.

There is a lot of special programming this year – here’s a sample:

The Daily Plenary and Continental Breakfast
The daily plenaries will feature sessions that provide big picture perspectives, innovative insights, and broad outlooks on current issues of interest to the entire audience. Plenary sessions will bring together all conference delegates at the first session of every morning.

Thursday . November 7
8:00am – 9:00am | Salons 1-5 | Breakfast 7:45am – 8:15am
Conference Welcome & Scholars Breakfast
and Welcome to Virginia:  Virginia, Mother of Movies?

9:00am – 10:00am | Salons 1-5
The Future of Film Stock for Archival Preservation

Friday . November 8
8:30am – 9:15am | Salons F-J | Breakfast 8:15am – 8:45am
Morning Plenary:  Preserving in Post: Contemporary Practices in Television Restoration

Saturday . November 9
8:30am – 9:30am | Salons 4-5 | Breakfast 8:15am – 8:45am
AMIA General Business and Membership Meeting

9:30am – 10:15am | Salons 4-5
Morning Plenary:  AMIA/DLF Hack Day – Results and Solutions

Magnetic Media Stream
Curated by Peter Brothers of SPECS BROS. in conjunction with AMIA’s Magnetic Media Crisis Committee, the Magnetic Media stream will include sessions focused on magnetic media, an issue of concern for many institutions.

Friday . November 8
11:00am – 11:30am | Salons 1-3
A/V Artifact Atlas: Creating a Common Language for Audiovisual Errors

11:30am – 12:00pm | Salons 1-3
QC Tools: A Report on Open Source Tools for the Quality Control of Digitization

2:00pm – 3:00pm | Salons 1-3
The End of Analog Media – The Cost of
Inaction and What You Can Do About It

3:30pm – 4:30pm | Salons 1-3
The Monster in the Closet:
Grappling with Videotape Collections

4:45pm – 5:45pm | Salons 1-3
The Essentials – Identifying the
Best Source for Your Preservation Efforts

Saturday . November 9
10:30am – 12:00pm | Salons 1-2
Preservation Action Plan for VHS

AMIA/DLF Hack Day on Wednesday
This full-day event will bring together audiovisual archivists and developers for an intensive day of creativity and problem solving. At the start of the day, archivists will articulate some of their challenges and goals. Participants will then split into teams comprised of archivists and computer programmers, working together to create simple tools and applications intended to solve specific needs within the community. Solutions will be presented at the Saturday morning plenary session.