Call for papers FIAT/IFTA Vienna Conference

The International Federation of Television Archives FIAT/IFTA World Conference and General Assembly, October 15th-18th, 2000

Parkhotel Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria

CALL FOR PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS AND EXHIBITORS

Vienna - Schönbrunn - ORF

The FIAT/IFTA Vienna World Conference Organizing Committee invites you to submit proposals for papers, presentations, work shop topics to be considered for inclusion in the year 2000 conference program. Exhibitors and sponsors of the event are also warmly welcomed.

The conference is this year generously hosted by Österreichische RundFunk - ORF - and held at the newly renovated Parkhotel Schönbrunn, just beside the famous Schloss Schönbrunn and its beautiful parks.

The conference ends with a grand ceremony and a closing dinner where the winners of the both TV-archive awards - FIAT/IFTA Television Archive Awards respectively The FIAT/IFTA Innovation Award - are presented. Open to all

This FIAT/IFTA World Conference is as usual open to all, FIAT/IFTA-member or not. The conference programme and registration form will be mailed to members in the beginning of April. All conference information will also be available at the FIAT/IFTA web site.

Nonmembers who wish to receive printed information should contact the FIAT/IFTA office (Administrative Coordinator Agneta Forsström, ifta@svt.se).

Conference language

The official conference language is English and all conference documentation should be submitted in English. No translation services to other languages will be at disposal.

Conference theme and programme

The working bodies of FIAT/IFTA - The Commissions and Work Groups (Documentation, Programming & Production, Technical, Training, Latin American regional group and the Televisions Studies work group) are responsible for setting up the conference programme via the work within their areas of responsibility coordinated by the Secretary General in a Vienna Conference Organizing Committee. This VCOC met in Vienna in February and produced the framework of the conference programme as the basis for the call for papers.

Proposals should address the main conference theme. The theme of the conference is "Media Asset Management for the 21st Century - Content is King, Meta data is Queen and Archiving reigns overall". It is of course not a coincidence that the conference theme contains several of the audiovisual medias "buzz words" of today. It also reflects the media market´s - as well as the manufacturers´s of technical equipment - booming interest in all the aspects of audiovisual archiving.

The conference will start with the screenings and voting for the Archive Award. The first plenary session on Sunday afternoon will then try to give an overview of current standardization on the audiovisual archiving area with examples on integration archives-programme production.

The first plenary session on Monday morning will deal with systems and analysis - opportunities for archives and programme production, especially the needs of the latter in a digital environment as well as new standards for professional training.

We can also see these session followed by workshops on "cross media" problems dealing with radio/TV/stills/text/online services/Internet. And we already know there will be workshops on Latin American archives as there will be on African archive projects. The copyright aspects on archiving are always present, this time as workshops.

Tuesday morning plenary session will mainly be dedicated to overviews of current technologies on storage, encoding, standards and migration. Also running implementations of what we have seen lately as presentations on our conferences.

On Wednesday we hope to find topics connected to the Televisions Studies in the programme as well as the FIAT-IASA work on radio archiving and the still present analogue technology we have to continue living with for still a long time.

This is to give you a very brief overview for your proposals for inputs to the programme in plenary sessions and work shops.

Deadline for proposals

A summary of your proposal (maximum of 200 words) together with a brief personal résumé should be e-mailed to the FIAT/IFTA office before April 30th. When you have submitted a proposal you should receive a confirmation receipt either by e-mail or by fax. If you don´t get this within a week from mailing us, please contact the FIAT/IFTA office.

During May your proposal will considered for inclusion to the programme and you will be informed about our decision before the end of the month.

Instructions for proposals of conference papers, presentations and workshops

The Conference Organizing Committee asks you to include the following information proposing papers, presentations and workshops:

Paper/Presentation/Workshop proposed by: Your data - Institution/Mailing Address/Phone/Fax/e-mail.

A 200 words description on the subject, title, it´s purpose and significance, session type (paper/presentation/lecture/panel/workshop), session chair/moderator, intended audience or level, required audiovisual equipment.

Proposals should be mailed or e-mailed before April 30th to:

International Federation of Television Archives FIAT/IFTA, c/o Sveriges Television, S-105 10 Stockholm, Sweden

Fax: +46 8 663 1232

Phone: +46 8 784 5740

E-mail: ifta@svt.se

/ Lasse Nilsson,Secretary General FIAT/IFTA, Agneta Forsström, Administrative Coordinator FIAT/IFTA