TRAINING COMMISSION: LOOKING AHEAD

• The first point concerns the planned cooperation with the International Music Centre (IMZ). It is an international organisation for music departments in television organisations or national institutes, such as museums or music libraries, and it collects all recordings in the classical field, i.e. opera, ballet, concerts, song and jazz. The IMZ Centre in Vienna also has a computerised data base where thousands of titles from all over the world are registered. What has been missing until now is the verification that all these recordings are actually available (sometimes live broadcasts were listed), who has the rights, on what formats the concerts or operas were produced, etc. This data could now be revised and/or corrected with the help of FIAT members. As a first step in this direction the IMZ in Vienna will supply a list of the cities in which IMZ as well as FIAT members are employed. Then we will try to encourage the heads of the music departments and archives to a cooperate in the verification and correction of the existing IMZ data. If all goes well, we hope to be able to present a first partial success in Budapest.

• The second main point would be a regional conference for Eastern and Middle European television archivists. Our colleagues in Athens have announced a regional conference for the beginning of April. Further details will be given directly to the colleagues in Hungary, Croatia, Albania, Bulgaria and Rumania in due time.