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Welcome to the FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2000
Media Asset Management
for the 21st Century
"Content is King, Metadata is Queen
and
Archiving Reigns overall"
On behalf of the FIAT/IFTA Executive Council, the Österreichische
Rundfunk (ORF) and the 2000 Conference Organizing Committee we are
happy to welcome you to the annual FIAT/IFTA World Conference and this
year also, FIAT/IFTA General Assembly in Vienna!
"An der schönen blauen Donau ..."
The conference is hosted by the National Television of Austria - Österreichische
Rundfunk ORF in Vienna and held at the Parkhotel Schönbrunn, conveniently
located in Vienna near the Schönbrunn Palace and the ORF premises.
This four day conference programme starts on Sunday October 15th and
ends with a dinner and ceremony in the evening of Wednesday October 18th
where the winners of the FIAT/IFTA Awards - The Television Archive Award
and The Innovation Award - are presented.
We are happy to have the ORF and Vienna as host organization
and venue for this year's conference, since it confirms FIAT/IFTA as
the true World Organization on the audiovisual archiving scene - two
years ago in Florence, Italy and last year in Santiago de Chile. Another
reason for Vienna is of course celebrating the long membership of ORF
in FIAT/IFTA, since it has been a member contributing significantly to
the development of our organization and serving as an important and generous
inspiration for other audiovisual archives.
Open to all with an interest in audiovisual archiving
This FIAT/IFTA World Conference is as usual open to all, FIAT/IFTA-member
or not. In this issue of the FIAT/IFTA Newsletter - that you also will
find at our web site - you will find a first version of the conference
program as well as registration and hotel reservation forms. Non-members
who wish to receive information should contact the FIAT/IFTA office
(Administrative Coordinator Agneta Forsström, ifta@svt.se),
the local host organization ORF, Christine Politsch, archiv@orf.at)
or check our website. There you will also find the most recent update
of information concerning the conference, links to our sponsors etc.
Theme of this year's FIAT/IFTA World Conference The theme
of this year's conference, "Media Asset Management for the 21st Century
- Content is King, Metadata is Queen and Archiving reigns overall",
should be considered as a natural follow-up of the World Conference last
year in Santiago. It will certainly give audiovisual archivists, librarians,
academic researchers, technicians and vendors a unique opportunity to
share a wide range of knowhow from presentations of interesting audiovisual
archive collections to the very latest accomplishments in digital audiovisual
archiving. Not to mention the valuable opportunity to meet colleagues
from all over the world.
You will probably find the programme very compressed with
sometimes parallel plenary sessions and workshops or parallell workshop
series. This arrangement reflects the long expressed wish of many members
not to have over-long events and also make it possible to arrange an
individual conference agenda in line with personal preferences and make
it effective.
The FIAT/IFTA 2000 Vienna Conference Organizing Committee
The FIAT/IFTA COC consists of the Secretary General, Treasurer, Commissions
and Workgroup Chairs and representatives of the host organization.
Lasse Nilsson (SVT, Sweden), Chair, Secretary General
FIAT/IFTA, lasse.nilsson@svt.se
Peter Dusek (ORF, Austria), President FIAT/IFTA, Host organization
coordinator, archiv@orf.at
Agneta Forsström (SVT, Sweden), Administrative Coordinator, ifta@svt.se
Christine Politsch (ORF, Austria), Assistant host organization
coordinator, archiv@orf.at
Steve Bryant (BFI, UK), Television Studies Workgroup, steve.bryant@bfi.org.uk
Branko Bubenik (HRT, Croatia), Training Commission, Conference
programme, b.bubenik@hrt.hrb
Wolfgang Dehn (SWR, Germany), Executive Council, Budget, wolfgang.dehn@swr-online.de
Alain Goossens (RTBF, Belgium), Technical Commission, Conference
programme, ags@rtbf.be
Tedd Johansen (NRK, Norway), Latin American Regional Group, Conference
programme, tedd.johansen@nrk.no
Annemieke de Jong (NAA, the Netherlands), Documentation Commission,
Conference programme, asmdejong@naa.nl
Sue Malden (BBC, United Kingdom), Programming & Production Commission,
Conference programme, sue.malden@bbc.co.uk
Karl Maier (SWR, Germany), Programming & Production Commission,
Awards responsible, karl.maier@swr-online.de
Conference Sponsors and Exhibitors 2000
The International Federation of Television Archives FIAT/IFTA would like
to thank the following sponsors for their generous support of the 2000
Vienna World Conference and General Assembly. We want at this stage
emphazise that we are negotiating with a number of companies and organizations
about sponsors agreements and this list is at this moment not at all
complete.
A main part of the FIAT/IFTA World Conference and General Assembly will
be an extraordinary Exhibition of the Audiovisual Manufacturers. The
planning status mid-June comprises more than 120 square metres exhibition
space. Amongst others, a demonstration of new digital workflows for archivists
will also be shown. We want to thank the following exhibitors for their
participation:
Alcatel, Austria, Website: www.alcatel.com
Austrian Airlines, Austria, Website: www.aua.at
Compaq, Germany, Website: www.compaq.com
CSC, Austria, Website:www.csc.at
EMC2, UK, Website: www.emc.com
G€rtler, Germany, Website: www.guertler.de
IBM, Germany, Website: www.ibm.com/solutions/media
Informix, USA, Website: www.informix.com
KirchMedia, Germany, Website: www.kirchgruppe.de/en/pub
ásterreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), Austria, Website: www.aua.at
Siemens, Austria, Website: www.siemens.com
Sony, Great Britain, Website: www.pro.sony-europe.com/data
Tecmath, Germany, Website: www.tecmath.com
X-Art, Austria, Website:www.x-art.at
Conference Registration
For registration, use the form in this issue of the FIAT/IFTA Newsletter.
The registration form should be sent to the FIAT/IFTA office under the
address at the form.
Payment should be made in advance by bank transfer or check (see registration
form).
Registration Fees
Member of FIAT/IFTA (first delegate) - US$ 210
Member of FIAT/IFTA (from second delegate and on) - US$ 180
Accompanying persons (not attending the conference) - US$ 100
Non-members - US$ 300
Single-day registration FIAT/IFTA members - US$ 80
Single-day registration non-members - US$ 100
Registrations after October 1st will be charged an additional
20% of the fee
The Registration Fee includes:
- Admission to all open Conference Sessions,Workshops and Open meetings
- Opening Reception/Cocktail Saturday evening at Schžnbrunn Palace
- Closing Dinner and Award Ceremony at Vienna Technical Museum
- Lunches and Coffeebreaks according to the Programme
- Conference facilities according to information in the programme
Closing dinner and FIAT/IFTA Awards Ceremony
 The
FIAT/IFTA Conference traditionally ends with a closing dinner and the
FIAT/IFTA Awards Ceremony, where the winners of the Television Archive
Award and the Innovation Award are presented and receive their prize
checks and certificates.
This year the venue of this very special event is the Vienna Technical
Museum. In honor of the 60th anniversary of Kaiser Franz Josefäs ascent
to the throne, a decision was made in 1908 to establish the Technical
Museum of Trade and Industry. The Museumäs collection currently comprises
the National Cabinet of Manufactured Products, the Technical Cabinet,
the Collection of Models and other collections which were united in the
Technological Cabinet in 1842.
In July of 1994 a renovation and expansion project was begun and completed
nearly three years later in March of 1997. Practically the whole building
has been redecorated and the exhibitions have been newly structured.
It is going to be a maybe unusual but impressive place for the closure
of the conference.
Check out the museum on the web: www.tmw.ac.at/
Hotels & Rates
We have made special agreements for the delegates with the following
hotel:
Parkhotel Schönbrunn
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the conference venue. This hotel is located in the heart of a the cultural
and touristic area of the city, in the immediate vicinity of the the
famous imperial summer residence Schönbrunn Palace and its parks.The
hotel was originally built 1907 as the guest house of the emperor Franz
Josef. The hotel is recently renovated. Almost 400 rooms, all equipped
with bath/shower, WC, telephone, TV, minibar etc.
 The
communications are excellent whether you prefer arriving by car or public
transport. See map below.
Also check the website: www.bestlodgings.com/sites/schonbrunn/
Address: Hietzinger Hauptstr. 10-20, A-1131 Wien, Austria Phone:
0043 1 878 040 - Fax: 0043 1 87804 3220 E-mail: parkhotel.schoenbrunn@austria-trend.at Website:
www.austria-trend.at - if you want to check out the place more closely!
Cards accepted: American Express, Visa, Master Card, JCB, Diners Club
Ways of Payment Hotel rooms are payed for directly to the respective
hotel.
How to get there
Bus shuttle from the airport to "Wien Mitte" (Hilton hotel), approx.
25 minutes/ATS 70; directly from there with metro "U4" in direction "Hütteldorf" to
the station "Hietzing", approx. 10 minutes/ATS 30; take the escalator
and then walk straight out of the building (don't turn in any direction
- just walk straight ahead) - outside you can see the Parkhotel Schönbrunn
on the left.
Cancellation
There will be no refunds for conference cancellations after October 1st
2000. Before that date there is a cancellation fee of US$ 50. Hotel
cancellations after October 5th will be charged at a one night rate
if not replaced by another delegate
General Conference Information
The theme of the FIAT/IFTA World Conference and General Assembly 2000
is "Media Assset Management for the 21st Century - Content is King,
Meta Data is Queen and Archiving Reigns overall" and Vienna seems to
be quite a perfect place to discuss such a topic: being one of Europe's
cultural treasures, the city looks back on a long history and heads
towards an exciting future in the heart of Central Europe.
Introducing Vienna
The Habsburg emperors once ruled a huge empire from Vienna. The city
is still dominated by the castles and places of the imperial seat:
every year hundreds of thousands come to marvel at Schoenbrunn, the
magnificent imperial summer residence. Visit the Imperial Coach Collection,
the Palm House and the Butterfly House. Admire Belvedere Palace, the
magnificent state rooms in the Hofburg, and the imperial crown in the
Treasury. Emperor Franz Joseph ordered the demolition of the city walls
130 years ago. In their place the Ringstraße was built - the
showplace of the monarchy. Bordered by such important buildings as
the State Opera, the Museums of Fine'Arts and Natural History, Parliament,
City Hall and Vienna University.
Vienna can also been seen as the world's capital of music.
It provided a golden monument for its "Waltz King" Johann Strauss the
genius of three-four time, an inspired musician in a long line of great
composers: Haydn and Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, Mahler and Schoenberg,
all worked here. A city with splendid concert halls, such as the Golden
Hall in the Musikverein, from which the Philharmonic's New Year's Day
concert is broadcast every 1st of January. Stars from all over the world
love to appear here: in the State Opera; the Volksoper; the Konzerthaus.
Location and transportation
Vienna is the capital of Austria in the very center of Europe. A
very old and at the same time modern city with an efficient subway (U-banh),
opera (of course!), modern hotels and restaurants. Not to mention the
cosmopolitan shopping streets that would rival any in the world.
German of the very special Viennese kind is the language and English
is generally spoken in this city housing so many International Organizations
and events.
Since Vienna is in the very center of Europe, it is very close by car
or train to other capitals and metropolitan areas as Munich, Milan, Budapest,
Bratislava and Prague. For air transportation it features a large and
modern International Airport - Schwechat - only 26 km from the city and
connected by bus and commuter train to downtown Vienna. Not to forget
the exellent network of subways and streetcars all over the city.
Local time is GMT +1 hour.
Climate/Temperature
For the daily weather forecast, check for example this
website
Electric Currency
Electric voltage is 220 volts, 50 cycles (220v 50Hz). The use of appliances
or electric devices designed for 110V needs the use of a transformer.
Though most travel appliances like notebook computers have an auto
volt ( 110V-240V) transformer that will adapt to Austrian electricity.
Check before leaving office!
Banking/Currency/Shops open hours
Money can be exchanged in hotels, exchange bureaux and banks. Banks are
open to public between 8.00 am - 12.30 pm and 1.30 -3.00 pm, Monday
thru Friday. Most shops in Vienna are open 9.00 am - 6.00 pm Monday
thru Friday and 9.00 am - 1.00 pm on Saturdays.
Visas and Passports
All foreigners require a valid identity document. For EU citizens applies
certain rules, but all other foreigners require passports and for a
few countries also visas. Be sure to check the current situation for
your country at your local Austrian representation before departing.
Useful information on the Web
The FIAT/IFTA website: www.fiatifta.org -
check out any new information concerning the Vienna conference. General
tourist information on Vienna: info.wien.at/e/index.htm
Want to be a member of FIAT/IFTA?
If you want to join FIAT/IFTA and need more information, check out our
website at http://www.nb.no/fiat. There you also find the application
forms.
Or contact the FIAT/IFTA office, c/o SVT Tevearkivet, 105 10 Stockholm,
Phone: +46 8 784 5750, Fax: +46 8 663 1232, e-mail: ifta@svt.se.
Also at your disposal for information: The Secretary General
Lasse Nilsson (address as FIAT office) and the President Peter Dusek,
c/o ORF, Documentation and Archives, Würzburggasse 30, A-1136 Vienna,
Phone: +43 1 87878 12380, Fax: +43 1 87878 12739, e-mail: archiv@orf.at
Membership fees
Full membership 1250 Swiss Francs - for Television Archives (and Audiovisual
Archives holding broadcast material)
Associated membership 750 Swiss Francs - for Audiovisual Archives and
organizations dealing with Audiovisual Media
Supporting membership 5000 Swiss Francs - Manufacturers of products and
systems for the audiovisual archiving area
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"I have the honor
to present to you" are the famous words spoken by Octavian in the poetic
scene in "Der Rosenkavalier" as he gives Sophie the silver rose. With this
quotion I would like to begin my invitation to the FIAT/IFTA World Conference
and General Assembly 2000 in Vienna. As FIAT/IFTA President and Head of
the ORF Archives, I this time hold double functions. Being an ORF employee
- my team and I stand for the Local Organization Committee - and also in
the name of the ORF Managing Director, Gerhard Weis, I announce this invitation
to the FIAT/IFTA World Conference and General Assembly in Vienna from October
14th-18th 2000. 
After
all, the ORF is the main sponsor that, along with representatives of the
industry such as Compaq, Tecmath, Informix, Sony, Gürtler, EMC2 and
AUA, provide the respective social venue. Being the President of FIAT/IFTA
I hope to be able to publish an attractive conference program that is organized
by the FIAT/IFTA Commissions and Secretary General Lasse Nilsson and is
steadily developing into an important dialogue between the audiovisual
industry and the users. The conference theme refers to the new century
and is also very poetic: "Media Asset Management for the 21st Century -
Content is King, Metadata is Queen and Archiving Reigns overall." 
