FIAT/IFTA World Conference and General Assembly, Vienna October 15-18, 2000
Conference Programme
(Preliminary version, June 20, 2000)

Saturday October 14

13.00-15.00 Programming & Production Commission (P&PC) meeting
(closed)
Meeting room I
Sue Malden (BBC, UK), Chair

13.00-15.00 Training Commission (TrainC) meeting (closed)
Meeting room II
Branko Bubenik (HTV, Croatia), Chair

13.00-15.00 Television Studies Workgroup (TSW) (closed)
Meeting room III
Steve Bryant (BFI, UK), Chair

15.15-17.00 Documentation Commission (DC) meeting (closed)
Meeting room I
Annemieke de Jong (NAA, the Netherlands), Chair

15.15-17.00 Technical Commission (TechC) meeting (closed)
Meeting room II
Alain Goossens (RTBF, Belgium), Chair

15.15-17.00 Optional for other workgroups
Meeting room III

17.15-18.30 Executive Council (EC) meeting (closed)

Meeting room I

Peter Dusek (ORF, Austria), President/ Lasse Nilsson (SVT, Sweden), Secretary General/ Agneta Forsström (FIAT/IFTA office, SVT, Sweden), Administrative Coordinator, Christine Politsch (ORF, Austria), Assistant Administrative Coordinator

20.00- Opening cocktail at the famous Schönbrunn Palace sponsored by Sony UK

Sunday October 15

Plenary Session 1

9.00-10.00 Official opening of the FIAT/IFTA World Conference in Vienna 2000
Grand Ballroom
Chaired by Peter Dusek, President FIAT/IFTA (ORF, Austria)
Opening speech by Peter Dusek, President FIAT/IFTA (ORF, Austria)
Welcome speech by Gerhard Weis, Director of the Conference host organization ORF
Key-note speech: "The future for Archives and Archivists - positive or gloomy" by Carol Owens, Head of Media Data Group (BBC, UK)
Greeting addresses by FIAT/IFTA collaborating Audiovisual Archives and Media organizations.

10.00-13.30 Presentations, screenings and voting for the 2000 FIAT/IFTA Television Archive Award
Grand Ballroom
Chaired by Sue Malden, Chair Programming & Production Commission (BBC, UK) and Karl Maier, Awards Organizer Programming & Production Commission (SWR, Germany)
Three programmes shortlisted by the P&PC pre-jury will be presented and screened for the Conference delegates who are the final jury for the Award:
"Nuestro Siglo - Our Century" by Maria Elena Woods, Producer (TVN, Chile); "Censored dreams - The road to happiness" by Karel Hynie, Producer (CTV, Czech Republic); "100 Deutsche Jahre, Folge 18: Große Brüder - Die Deutschen und die Supermächte" by Thomas Fischer, Producer (SWR, Germany) (There will be no coffee break during this session, but coffee will be served in the Grand Ballroom Gallery during the screenings.)

13.30-15.00 Buffet lunch - Grand Ballroom Gallery

Plenary Session 2

15.00-18.30 Overview on standardization and projects dealing with Media Asset Management
Grand Ballroom
Moderated by Carol Owens, Head of Media Data Group (BBC, UK) and Herbert Hayduck, Archivist & Producer (ORF, Austria)

Projects of EBU and SMPTE towards standardization:

15.00-16.00 EBU-project P/META - Metadata
Speakers: Carol Owens, Head of Media Data Group (BBC, UK); Peter Mulder, Technical Services Consultant (NOB, Netherlands) and several others.

16.00-16.30 Coffee - Grand Ballroom Gallery

16.30-17.50 EBU-project P/FTA - Future Television Archives
Speakers: Horst Schachlbauer, (IRT, Germany); Giorgio Dimino, (RAI, Italy); Andreas Ebner, (IRT, Germany); Jürgen Heitmann, (SRT, Switzerland)

17.50-18.10 Examples of Integration Archives-Production - The Dutch Digital Platform project
Speaker: Arjo Van Loo, Teamleader Information and Digitization (NAA, Netherlands)
The ¹DIGITAL PLATFORM¹ is a cooperate pilot project of 10 Dutch public broadcasting companies, the Netherlands Broadcasting Production Company and the NOS. The project aims at developing a complete, integrated digital environment that facilitaes the production, distribution and archiving of broadcastquality multimedia programme and provides acces to the distributed audiovisual archives of the broadcasting companies.

18.10-18.30 The SMPTE Dictionary
Speaker: Mike Cox, Consultant (Mirador Techniques, UK)
This is an thorough update and expansion on the topic Mike Cox introduced at the World Conference in Santiago last year.

20.00- Heuriger in the Neustift Vineyards sponsored by EMC2, UK

Monday October 16

Plenary Session 3

9.30-10.30 Producers´s needs in a digital environment
Grand Ballroom
Moderator: Philippe Van Meerbeeck (VRT, Belgium), Editor
Speakers: Producers of programmes shortlisted for The Television Archive Award - Karel Hynie (CTV, Czech), Thomas Fischer (SWR, Germany) and Maria Elena Wood (TVN, Chile) and Einar Gjaervold, winning producer of Innovation Award 2000 (NRK, Norway) and ORF producer Walter Erdelitsch. Further producers may be added.

11.00-11.30 Coffee - Grand Ballroom Gallery

11.30-13.00 EU-projects:

SWR/Czech projects
Speakers: Karl Maier, Head Corporate Controller (SWR, Germany) and Vit Charous, Head of TV-Archives (CTV, Czech)

Praesto
Speaker: Sue Malden, Chair Programming & Production Commission (BBC,UK)

Euromedia
Speaker: Rainer Kellerhals (Techmat, Germany)

ECHO - European Chronicles On-Line
Speaker: Pasquale Savino, Project leader (CNR, Italy).

CAPMED
Speaker: Still to be confirmed

13.00-14.30 Buffet lunch - Grand Ballroom Gallery

Workshops series 1

14.30-15.25 1. African Archives Project
Grand Ballroom
Moderator: Peter Dusek, Head of Archive (ORF, Austria), President FIAT/IFTA
Opening speakers: Paul Fannoy, - "African News Reels in Belgium - Status of Preservation, Documentation, Copyright Problems"
Joachim Senekovic, former director of the Austrian Wochenschau - "Kenya - News Reels produced in Vienna"

15.30-16.30 2. Latin American Regional Group (LARG) I (This workshop will be in Spanish language only)
Grand Ballroom

Moderators: Tedd Johansen, Chair LARG - Latin American Regional Group (NRK, Norway) and Paulina Montaldo Ortiz, Archivist & Producer, Member LARG (TVN, Chile)
This work will cover several areas of interest to audiovisual archvists with an emphasiz on developing the FIAT/IFTA Latin American network
En el orden del dia: Problemas de conservacion de soportes; Digitalizacion de imagenes archivos digitalizados; Cooperacion e intercambio de informacion entre Archivos Latinoamericanos; El tratamiento de los soportes antigues; Problemas de control de los fondos; El Derecho de Autor; Acceso de los investigadores academicos a los archivos de television en todo el mundo; Como hacer el archivo lucrativo: Archive programming; Politica de preservacion de cintas de video.

16.30-17.00 Coffee - Grand Ballroom Gallery

17.00-18.30 3. Latin American Regional Group (LARG) II (This workshop will be in Spanish language only)
Grand Ballroom
Moderators: Tedd Johansen, Chair LARG - Latin American Regional Group (NRK, Norway) and Paulina Montaldo Ortiz, Archivist & Producer, Member LARG (TVN, Chile)

See workshop 2 above for details.

Workshops series 2

14.30-15.25 1. UMIDS - Unique Media ID`s
Meeting room 1
Moderators: Annemieke de Jong, Chair Documentation Commission (NAA, Netherlands) and Mike Cox, Managing Director (Mirador Techniques, UK)

15.30-16.30 2. Crossmedia - Radio/TV/Stills/Text/On-line services/Internet
Meeting room 1
Moderators: Roberto Rosetto (RAI, Italy), Head of Technical Department, Member Technical and Programming & Production Commissions and Sven Allerstrand, General Director, former President IASA (ALB, Sweden)

16.30-17.00 Coffee - Grand Ballroom Gallery

17.00-17.45 3. Conferences and Seminars evaluation from an archivist training viewpoint
Meeting room 1
Moderators: Jacqueline Gupta (BBC, Bristol, UK), Head of Archives, Member Training Commission

17.45-18.30 4. Ways and ideas to use archives in 24-hour news production projectst
Meeting room 1
Moderator: Vits Charous, Head of Archives (CTV, Czech)

20.00-00.00 Lordmayor´s of Vienna reception for the FIAT/IFTA World Conference & General Assembly
Vienna Town Hall

Tuesday October 17

Plenary Session 4

9.00-13.00 Systems, analyses and running implementations
Grand Ballroom
Moderators: Alain Goossens, Head of Radio & TV Archives, Chair Technical Commission (RTBF, Belgium); Gerhard Stanz, Member Technical Commission (ORF, Austria)
Speakers: Eugenia Martin Giraldo, Head Television Programmes Archive (Telecinco, Spain) - "The digital archive of Telecinco"; Ana Franqueira, Head Audiovisual Archives (SIC, Portugal) - "From production to 'paperless' and 'tapeless' audiovisual archiving: system's compatibility"
The Telecinco project is aiming at managing big volumes of videotapes and also all other types of information related to the production: scripts, production and broadcasting rights available from one single archive and accessible through a navigator.
The SIC Television Archives project deals with the introduction of a paperless system for news archives, in what concerns standardisation and integration of descriptions with the news-room production system and international news agencies.
The presentation also deals with issues relating to data management for the "digital era", the preparation and organization of information and tapes for inclusion in a new digital system.

10.30-11.00 Coffee - Grand Ballroom Gallery

Speakers: Brian Lynch, Written Archives (RTE, Ireland) & Bríd Dooley, Project leader (RTE, Ireland) - "RTE Archive Project 1996-2002. Stages in Transforming a Legacy Archive".
To preserve and enhance the value of its 40 years of Archive material, RTE has initiated a project which re-integrates its diverse and nationally important collections into a common digital format. The presentation traces how separate strands - engineering and IT, knowledge and rights management and physical conservation have been brought together into a unified project.

Digital News (contributions from several news broadcasters like CNN, SWR, ORF, SVT, BBC and others)
Speakers: Robert Fischer & Ulla Kreuder, ?professional title (SWR, Germany) - "TV - newsroom concept"; Robert Fischer & U. Höflein (SWR, Germany) - "Radio- and print archivs in the digital world"; Others yet to be decided.

Automated indexing - new theory and new tools in speech recognition
Speaker: Researcher from Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)
This presentation of speech and image recognition for automatic indexing starts from a sophisticated technology called "Informedia" developed for the product "Mediasite".

13.00-14.30 Buffet lunch - Grand Ballroom Gallery

14.30-15.25 Open Forum
Moderator: Peter Dusek, President FIAT/IFTA (ORF, Austria)
Presentation of New Members.
Franz Patay, Dr. (IMZ, Austria) - "Endangered Archives", IMZ Homepage Project.

15.30-18.30 FIAT/IFTA General Assembly
Chair: To be appointed by the delegates
Introduction by Lasse Nilsson, Secretary General (SVT, Sweden) See separate agenda.

16.30-17.00 Coffee - Grand Ballroom Gallery

Evening Optional - Opera
Reservations has to be made on beforehand

Wednesday October 18

Workshop series 3

9.00-9.45 1. Television Studies Workgroup
Grand Ballroom
Moderator: Steve Bryant, Chair Television Studies Workgroup (BFI, UK)
Opening speaker: Andris Kesteris, National Archives of Canada - "Multicultural Context"
The acquisition, preservation of and access to multicultural programming through the example of joint project between The National Archives of Canada and CFMT International, Canada's first multilingual television system. This presentation describes the activities of a state as opposed to production archive. It relates the advantages as well as limitations of such an operation, while referring to current technology and procedures.

9.50-10.30 2. FIAT/IFTA-IASA Radio Archives
Grand Ballroom
Moderator: Peter Dusek, President FIAT/IFTA (ORF, Austria)
Opening speakers: Albrecht Häfner & Per Holst (IASA)

10.30-11.00 Coffee - Grand Ballroom Gallery

11.00-12.00 3. Analogue Techniques: Preservation-Migration, IT-shift
Grand Ballroom
Moderator: Alain Goossens, Head of Archives (RTBF, Belgium), Deputy Chair Technical Commission

12.05-13.00 4. Access to Video Archives via "very low bit rate". Preview, video formats and related questions.
Grand Ballroom
Moderator: Gerhard Stanz, Member Technical Commission, (ORF, Austria)

Workshops series 4

9.30-10.45 1. Innovation Award Winner screening and discussion with producer of "In Praise of Weather - Aere Vaere Vaeret", Einar Gjaerevold (NRK, Norway)
Meeting room 1
Moderators: Sue Malden, Chair Programming & Production Commission & Karl Maier, Awards organizer Programming & Production Commission (SWR, Germany)
The innovation Award jury wrote: "... this programme will encourage to develop ideas for creating programmes using archive footage of many other such simple aspects of life that could be used in the same innovative way..." and they also wondered if "... archives bother to keep this sort of material? We thought that not so many do. This programme should encourage people to ensure that footage reflecting the everyday things of life is retained in our archives..."

10.45-11.15 Coffee - Grand Ballroom Gallery

11.15-12.15 2. Stills...!
Meeting room 1
Moderators: Camillo Foramitti, Archivist (ORF, Austria) & Uta Tshernuth, Archivist (ORF, Austria)
This workshop will contain several contributions from member´s stills archives.

12.15-13.00 3. An overview of the Balkan audiovisual archiving situation with emphasize on professional training
Meeting room 1
Moderator: Peter Kardjilov, Head of Archives (BNT, Bulgaria), Member Training Commission

13.00-14.30 Buffet lunch - Grand Ballroom Gallery

14.30-15.30 4. Rights
Meeting room 1
Moderator: Sue Malden, Chair Programming & Production Commission (BBC, UK)
Opening speakers: Mr. Rumphorst, Rights expert (EU), Stephen Johansen, Rights expert (NRK, Norway), Sylvie Forbin, (EU)

Plenary Session 4

15.30-18.00 Moderator: Peter Dusek, President FIAT/IFTA (ORF, Austria)

15.30-16.00 Television Studies Workgroup
Grand Ballroom
Speaker: Steve Bryant, Chair Television Studies Workgroup (BFI, UK)

16.00-16.30 Coffee - Grand Ballroom Gallery

16.30-17.00 What is the future of Archivists?
Grand Ballroom
Speakers: Paul Fiander, ?professional title (BBC, UK) - "BBC Information & Archives Digital Future";
Philippe Aigrain, (EU Commission)

17.00-17.30 Summing up the Conference
Grand Ballroom
Moderator: Peter Dusek, President FIAT/IFTA (ORF, Austria)

20.00- FIAT/IFTA Awards Ceremony and Closing Dinner sponsored by Informix Software
Vienna Technical Museum

Thursday October 19

10.00-18.00 Inaugural meeting of the new elected FIAT/IFTA Executive Council
Meeting room 1
Chair: President of FIAT/IFTA
Meeting administration: Agneta Forsström (FIAT/IFTA office, SVT, Sweden), Administrative Coordinator, Christine Politsch (ORF, Austria), Assistant Administrative Coordinator