Rachael Stoeltje, Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive Christophe Dupin, International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) David Walsh, Imperial War Museum The notion of preserving for the future such a low form of entertainment as film (‘an amusement fit for children and half-wits’) was once dismissed as pointless and unrealistic. In this panel Christophe Dupin looks at the beginnings of the archive movement with the...

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Jean-Louis Bigourdan, Image Permanence Institute/RIT Alex Bliss, Image Permanence Insitute/RIT Implementing the best possible preservation strategy is an intricate and difficult process. IPI worked on an NEH-funded project to create a web-based application called filmcare.org. The objective of the project was to design a tool for self-education and to provide an easy-to-implement decision-making platform for preserving film materials. In...

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Casey Davis, WGBH Educational Foundation Jack Brighton, Illinois Public Media Rebecca Fraimow, WGBH Evain Jean-Pierre, EBU (European Broadcasting Union) Morgan Morel, George Blood Audio/Video/Film The adoption of PBCore in the United States has paralleled the rise of EBUCore in Europe as core metadata standards for audiovisual materials. During the past year, the two communities have formed a working group to explore ways to align PBCore and...

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Sean Savage, Academy Film Archive Stefan Palko, Academy Film Archive Deborah Stoiber, George Eastman House It’s simply not feasible to save all the media consigned to our institutions, and we must inevitably come to terms with our limitations in collection criteria, storage and staffing. In this session, representatives from the Academy Film Archive (AFA) and George Eastman House (GEH) will trace the journey of a hypothetical collection...

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Liz Coffey, Harvard University Amy Sloper, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research Travis Wagner, University of South Carolina Spencer Churchill,   George Eastman House What do you do when a large collection arrives at your archive and it is all labeled not only in a foreign tongue, but also in a completely different alphabet? How do you identify titles and how do you catalog them? Different institutions have found different methods of...

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Joshua Sternfeld, National Endowment for the Humanities Chris Lacinak, AVPreserve Rachael Stoeltje, Indiana University Jean-Louis Bigourdan, Image Permanence Institute Bono Olgado, University of the Philippines Film Institute Recent work suggests that moving image preservation and access is in the midst of a “crisis” with a narrow window for taking action. Limited infrastructural and financial resources, coupled with expanding digital...

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Jan Müller, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, FIAT/IFTA President The presentation addresses the challenges related to the role and function of audiovisual archive institutions as the environment they operate in becomes more and more digital and networked. The context is the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision; a leading audiovisual archive that successfully made the transition to the digital domain. Its ever-growing...

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Pam Fisher   For many years, automated metadata generation for moving image content has been an attractive goal, but largely unrealized in modern systems. This talk combines a review of past initiatives, which help to illuminate requirements articulated over time, and discusses a long term project underway between BAFTA and University College London (UCL) – Video Clarity. This asks the question: “What can be learned by pointing a...

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