Conference Schedule
This is a preliminary schedule and is subject to change
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| 10:00AM – 5:00PM | AMIA/DLF Hack Day |
| 10:30AM – 5:00PM | Community Archiving Workshop |
| 1:00PM – 5:00PM | Workshop: Linked (Wiki)Data for All: Connect Your Collections to the Web |
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| 8:30AM – 10:30AM | Keynote & Opening Welcome |
| 11:00AM – 11:30AM | Archiving Community Television: The Austin Community Television Recordings Collection |
| 11:00AM – 12:00PM | Increasing Equity in the Field Through Preservation Fellowships and Training |
| 11:00AM – 12:00PM | TBD [Iron Mountain] |
| 11:30AM – 12:00PM | Inside the Seattle Art Museum’s Historic Media Collection |
| 12:30PM – 1:30PM | Tour: University of Pittsburgh Archives & Special Collections |
| 2:00PM – 12:00AM | Animation is a Team Sport: Successes and Challenges of Archiving Animation |
| 2:00PM – 3:00PM | Black Films Project at the Library of Congress |
| 2:00PM – 3:00PM | Calling All CAWs!: The CAW Training of Trainers (TOT) Project |
| 2:30PM – 3:00PM | Screening: What Was Left Behind |
| 3:15PM – 3:45PM | A Report on the AMIA 2021 Demographic and Salary Survey |
| 3:15PM – 4:15PM | Experimenting with Machine Learning for TV Restoration: Doogie Howser, M.D. – A Case Study |
| 3:15PM – 4:15PM | Screening: Rediscovering Pittsburgh Filmmakers: Films/Videos from the 1970s & 1980s |
| 3:15PM – 4:15PM | The Copyright Claims Board: New Choices for Archives and Libraries |
| 4:30PM – 5:30PM | Collaborative Partnerships for Preserving Magnetic Media |
| 4:30PM – 5:00PM | Don’t Get Crushed: Riding the Mobile Video Tidal Wave |
| 4:30PM – 5:00PM | Media Ecology Project NEH Grants Report: Early Cinema; Accessible Civil Rights |
| 4:30PM – 5:30PM | Screening: The Moving Image Presents: In Search of Bigfoot: Recovering George A. Romero’s Jacaranda Joe |
| 5:00PM – 5:30PM | Making African Academic Resources Accessible (MAARA) – Nine Years On |
| 5:00PM – 5:30PM | Queer Radio with Attitude: Digitizing Houston’s LGBT History |
| 6:00PM – 7:00PM | Opening Night Reception |
| 7:30PM – 9:00PM | Trivia Night |
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| 9:00AM – 5:30PM | The Pavilion |
| 9:30AM – 10:30AM | Balancing Act(ion): Navigating Restoration and Preservation Challenges in NMAAHC’s Recent Archival Projects |
| 9:30AM – 10:30AM | DV Rescue: the Community Speaks |
| 10:00AM – 11:00AM | Global Perspectives |
| 11:00AM – 12:00PM | Automating Direct Digital Transfers: Technology, Collaboration and Challenges |
| 11:00AM – 12:00PM | Missing Movies and Finding Films: Identifying and Navigating the Challenges |
| 11:00AM – 12:00PM | The Challenges of Digitization and Digital Preservation in an Unstable Context: the Brazilian Experience |
| 12:00PM – 2:00PM | Poster: 100 Most Influential Film Preservation Projects/Restorations |
| 12:00PM – 2:00PM | Poster: All is Not Lost: Preserving “Lost Films” |
| Poster: Assessing Community-Based Audiovisual Archives | |
| Poster: Enter the robot! A case study in optical media migration | |
| Poster: Unearthing Moving Image Instances of Student Protests in Production Elements | |
| 2:00PM – 3:00PM | Anywhere and Everywhere: Practical Advice for DIY Tape Digitization |
| 2:00PM – 3:00PM | Oral Histories Capturing Knowledge About Changing and Obsolete Technologies |
| 2:00PM – 3:00PM | Restoring the Sara Gómez Documentaries at the Vulnerable Media Lab |
| 3:15PM – 4:15PM | Community Cataloging with the South Side Home Movie Project |
| 3:15PM – 4:15PM | De-Mystifying LTO, or, LTO for the Masses |
| 3:15PM – 4:15PM | Universal Music Archive and the Restoration of Guns N’ Roses |
| 4:30PM – 5:00PM | How Lossless is Lossless |
| 4:30PM – 5:00PM | Performing the Archive: Digital Spaces & Folkstreams |
| 4:30PM – 5:30PM | The AMIA Pathways Fellowship: Meet the Fellows |
| 5:00PM – 5:30PM | Is 4K OK? |
| 5:00PM – 5:30PM | Report on the First Year of Home Movie Days in Iceland |
| 7:00PM – 9:30PM | Archival Screening Night |
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| 9:00AM – 2:00PM | The Pavilion |
| 9:45AM – 10:45AM | Film Cleaning: Further Research from the AMIA Preservation Committee |
| 9:45AM – | Grant Reports |
| 9:45AM – 10:15AM | Hack Day Awards |
| 9:45AM – 10:45AM | Invaders from Mars – A Nightmare of Restoration |
| 11:00AM – 12:00PM | Airtable Archives Show & Tell |
| 11:00AM – 12:00PM | The 6K Restoration of Orson Welles’ Chimes At Midnight: The Restoration Process, Its Problems and Solutions |
| 11:00AM – 12:00PM | This Is How We Do It: An Archival Sustainability Case Study at the University of Illinois |
| 12:00PM – 2:00PM | Poster: Adolf Nichtenhauser: Documenting the History of Movies and Medicine |
| Poster: Archival as Survival: Preserving Forgotten Stories through Community-led Archives | |
| Poster: DIY Public Broadcasting Preservation with the PBPF Fellows | |
| Poster: Taking Stock: Providing Access to an Architecture Museum’s Audiovisual Collection | |
| Poster: What I’ve Learned: Film Digitization as a Fellow | |
| 2:00PM – 3:00PM | AMIA Open Forum |
| 2:00PM – 3:00PM | Behind Blue Eyes: Covert NYPD Surveillance of Political Activism |
| 2:00PM – 3:00PM | Conserving South Asian Cinema Collections in North American Archives |
| 3:15PM – 3:45PM | “Hey mom, look what I can do”: Performing “Film Reconstructions” with Undergraduate Students |
| 3:15PM – 3:45PM | Envisioning the Future of Audiovisual Preservation in India |
| 3:15PM – 4:15PM | Resurrecting the 1970s Guerrilla Television Movement |
| 3:45PM – 4:15PM | Developing Undergraduate Learning Objectives in Media Archiving and Preservation |
| 3:45PM – 4:15PM | GYN on Super 8: Accessing Reproductive Health Information |
| 4:30PM – 5:30PM | American Archive of Public Broadcasting: Managing Risk for Access |
| 4:30PM – 5:30PM | The Pursuit of Happiness (1983) |
| 4:30PM – 12:00AM | Virtual Bench: An Experimental Application of Artificial Intelligence for Archivists |
| 6:00PM – 7:00PM | Closing Night at AMIA 2022 |




