Dwight Swanson, Center for Home Movies Skip Elsheimer, A/V Geeks, Center for Home Movies Jasmyn Castro, National Museum of African American History and Culture Pamela Vadakin, California Audiovisual Preservation Project The Home Movie Registry is an online portal that aggregates the catalog records and digitized files of amateur film and video in one central location.  The Registry is a curated search engine for amateur films.  It doesn’t...

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  Speaker presentations are posted as they are received.   Conference Sessions Access, Outreach & Use Stream Posters Screenings   Annotating and Mapping Ephemeral Films of National Socialism in Austria Lindsay Zarwell, US Holocaust Memorial Museum Take a glimpse into everyday life in Austria before and during the Holocaust, and see what amateur filmmakers who were there saw. The “Ephemeral Films Project: National Socialism in...

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DAS addresses the full life cycle of the media asset – from content creation to rights management to assuring asset preservation – with speakers and case studies that address what works in the real world. Click here for  more about AMIA’s DAS events.     Wednesday | November 18, 2015 DAS Portland Opening Keynote & Welcome Keynote:    Erik Weaver, The School of Cinematic Arts’ Entertainment Technology Center Erik Weaver will...

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There will be two Poster Sessions at AMIA 2015 – with a slate of great presentations!  Check your program for the individual poster schedule.   Collaborative Method for Overcoming the “Lack Of”: Case Study of Japan Ann Adachi-Tasch, Collaborative Cataloging Japan A collaborative method for the cataloging and preservation of postwar Japanese experimental moving image offers great potential for resolving several issues...

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AMIA Announces Keynote Speakers for Digital Asset Symposium Program Will Run Simultaneously with AMIA Annual Conference LOS ANGELES (October 15, 2015) – The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) has enlisted keynote speakers Erik Weaver and John Downey for the Digital Asset Symposium (DAS), which takes place Nov. 18-19 in Portland, Ore., at the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower. This year marks the first time that DAS will run...

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  Co-Curators: Casey E. Davis, Project Manager, American Archive of Public Broadcasting WGBH Educational Foundation Johan Oomen, Manager, Research and Development Department, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Rebecca Fraimow, Archivist, WGBH Educational Foundation Endorsements: John Tariot, Chair, Copyright Committee Ariel Schudson, Chair, Access Committee Thelma Ross, Former of the Cataloging and Metadata Committee, supports the...

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Please note that this is a preliminary schedule and is subject to change. Events may be added or times changed.

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Preliminary Program Sessions This list will be updated and is subject to change.  Times and dates of each session will be posted in the next few weeks.  For a full list of workshops available, click here.   Wednesday | 8:00am – 12:00pm Film Archives and Digital Humanities: Tools, Resources, Pedagogy Chairs Dimitrios Latsis, University of Iowa/The Internet Archive Rick Prelinger, UC Santa Cruz/Prelinger Archives/Internet Archive...

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