2014 Poster Presentations

2014 Poster Presentations

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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Archival Screening Night Submissions

Archival Screening Night Submissions

Have you ever encountered material in your collections that you wish you could share with all of your colleagues in the field? Have you ever wished you could watch that print on the big screen instead of on a flatbed? Have you ever wondered how a full theater would react to that unusual test pattern video? If so, consider submitting your findings and preservation efforts to the 2014 edition Archival Screening Night at this year’s AMIA...

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AMIA Cataloging & Metadata Workshop

October 7-8, 2014 | Savannah, Georgia The 2014 edition of this bi-annual two day workshop includes new content and offers attendees—past and future alike—a workshop that emphasizes practical implementation of a variety of tools, including tools currently in development. It incorporates more hands-on exercises than ever before and addresses how the attendee can concretely integrate new models for description into their current workflows and...

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Workshops

Workshops

Workshop schedule is subject to change. All workshops must meet a minimum attendance by September 1, 2014.  Any workshop that has not met minimum attendance may be cancelled.  Should a workshop be cancelled, any registration fees for the workshop will be refunded.   TUESDAY . October 7, 2014 8:00am – 5:30pm . Pre-registration required Workshop: Small Gauge Projection and the Art of Projector Maintenance and Repair Chair and Speakers Taylor...

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Tips for Session Chairs

2014 Tips for Session Chairs (pdf) BEFORE THE SESSION Contact Your Speakers Before the conference contact your speakers to ask them if they have any questions about their presentation. Make sure your speakers know the date and time of their presentation. Ask them to give you a short biography with the relevant curriculum vitae material so that you can introduce them properly. Be Prepared It is assumed that the session chairperson is familiar...

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Announcing the first AMIA/DLF Hack Day!

Announcing the first AMIA/DLF Hack Day!

AMIA will host its first ever hack day on November 6, 2013 in Richmond, VA. The event will be a unique opportunity for practitioners and managers of digital audiovisual collections to join with developers and engineers for an intense day of collaboration to develop solutions for digital audiovisual preservation and access. It will be fun and practical…and there will be prizes! This year’s hack day is a partnership between AMIA and the...

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Updated Conference Program

Updated Conference Program

  Updated October 10, 2013 Please note – times and sessions subject to change Download the Program   Tuesday . November 5, 2013 8:00am – 5:30pm | Requires Separate Registration Tour: Packard Campus of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center 8:30am – 12:30pm | Capital | Requires Separate Registration A/V Tech Basics for Archivists Speaker: Eric Wenocur, Lab Tech Systems Audio and video equipment is complex and specialized. There are...

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