The conference offers three parallel session tracks as well as workshops, screenings, receptions and the Vendor Cafe. More information will continue to be posted. If you register now, you will be able to adjust your registration as new events are added. Also – OnWednesday, November 18th, there will be a half-day Reel Thing Technical Symposium from 12:30pm – 5:30pm. Opening with a keynote address on Wednesday, November 18th (after...
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See who’s already signed up to exhibit this year! www.amiaconference.net/2015-vendor-cafe-exhibitors/ The 2015 AMIA Conference is right around the corner! 2015 is our 25th anniversary – at a meeting in 1990, the decision to form AMIA was made at a meeting in Portland. So celebrating our 25th anniversary in Portland seems especially fitting! The Vendor Café is scheduled for two days – Thursday, November 19th and Friday, November...
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You are the leader of the session. As the chair, you introduce the speakers, ensure the session proceeds according to schedule, and facilitate any dialogue between the presenters and the audience – all while maintaining a friendly and relaxed environment. Many presenters (and chairs!) are nervous before their presentations, so it falls to the chair to put everyone at ease –the more prepared you and your speakers are, the easier it is to feel...
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Thank you for serving as a Session Chair for the 2015 Annual Conference! Much of the success of the conference rests on the efficient and consistent execution of our presentations, workshops and sessions. We know that a well-prepared Session Chair can help ensure that the speakers give high quality, trouble-free talks and that the audience appreciates the entire session. Your program coordinator is available to guide you through the...
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Speaker presentations are posted as they are received. The 2014 program offered a daily stream of curated programming, you can click directly to those presentations .. The Open Source Digital Preservation and Access Stream focused on the use of open source software that is in current significant use within digital preservation and access systems. Curated in collaboration with AMIA’s Open Source...
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The Thursday morning Keynote and the daily plenaries will feature speakers 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. AMIA welcomes Ian MacKaye as the 2014 Keynote speaker Ian MacKaye is currently the front man of The Evens and formerly of the influential...
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This year, the Conference will offer evening screenings at the hotel on Friday and Saturday night. In addition, AMIA will offer a Community Screening on Saturday afternoon for the families in Savannah. FRIDAY . October 10 7:15pm – 8:00pm It Happened in 16mm: A Night of Regional Film The Small Gauge Amateur Film Committee and the Regional Audiovisual Archives Committee are co-sponsoring a small gauge screening event...
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Poster presentations will be held from 12:00pm – 2:00pm on Thursday and Friday, October 9-10th in the Regency Ballroom as part of the Vendor Cafe. Doris Chase and the WCFTR: Creating a Culture of Collaboration at UW Madison Willie Thurlow, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research/UW-Madison The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research’s Doris Chase collection comprises numerous film...
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