Los Archivos Sonoros y Visuales en America Latina

Seminario Internacional, Mexico City

Due to the success of the international seminar in Mexico City in November 2001 initiated by the FIAT/IFTA Latin American Regional Group (LARG), Radio Educacion has decided to set up a new seminar in Mexico City in May 2003. The aim of the seminar was finally decided during the workshop for Latin Americans at the FIAT/IFTA conference in Turkey, Antalya in October 2002.

The host for the seminar is CONACULTA / Radio Educacion in Mexico City. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA), UNESCO and Federation Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF) are also invited to participate.

The target group for the seminar are Latin Americans but any FIAT member who is interested can join. Officially FIAT is dedicated to work for the seminar. Unfortunately, this year there is no sponsor supporting the event. The seminar in Mexico City in November 2001 was sponsored by Ascential Software, USA, a former FIAT member.

The preliminary programme for the seminar has been made by Radio Educacion : Lidia Camacho, Directora General, and Perla Olivia Rodriguez Resendiz - both participated at the FIAT conference in Antalya last year. The preliminary programme so far contents interesting lectures about radio, sound and television archives. The audiovisual archives in Mexico will be presented. FIAT members like Annemieke de Jong, Tedd Urnes (former Johansen), Richard Wright, Amira Arrata,... will be lecturing.

The venue in Mexico City. The dates are May 19-23, 2003. For those of you who do not speak Spanish, English translations will be provided.

Welcome to Mexico.

Tedd Urnes (former Johansen) - tedd.johansen@nrk.no
Chairman of The Latin American Regional Group (LARG)

Lidia Camacho

Perla Olivia Rodriguez, Tedd Urnes, Lidia Camacho and Amira Arratia

Preliminary programme overview

Monday, May 19th

• Opening session
• Magisterial Conference : The Sound Patrimony as Memory of the World
  Dr. Abdelaziz Abid, Head Manager of the Memory of the World Programme of UNESCO
• The profile of the Sound Archives in Mexico
  Chair: Lidia Camacho, Head Manager of Radio Educación

Tuesday, May 20th

• The Present Situation of the Sound Archives in Mexico
  Chair: Rocío Micher, Vicepresident of the National Network of Educative and Cultural Radio and TV Broadcasters of Mexico
• Basic Works of a Sound Archive
  Chair: Dolores Beístegui, Head Manager of Mexican Institute of Radio, IMER
• Projects & Proposals of Sound Documentation
  Chair: Fernando Escalante, Radio UNAM.

Wednesday, May 21st

• Challenges of the sound archives in Mexico
  Chair: Olga Durón, Radio Educación
• Rules of Cataloguing of the International Association of Sound Archives (IASA)
  Chris Clark, British Library, England
• The bridge from the analogical to digital
  Chair: Perla Olivia Rodríguez, Radio Educación

Tuesday, May 22nd

• Present situation of the television archives in Mexico
  Chair: Iñaki Alzurgaray, President of the National Network of Educative and Cultural Radio and TV Broadcasters of Mexico
• Magisterial Conference: The archives in the audiovisual environment
  Chair: Enrique Strauss, Head Manager of Channel 22
  Speaker : Tedd Urnes, NRK, Norway

Friday, May 23rd

• Projects & Proposal of Audiovisual Documentation
  Chair: Omar Chanona, Bellas Artes
• Crossing the digital breach
  Chair: Lucina Jiménez, Head Manager of CENART
• Closing session

Workshops

• Sound Restoration
  Instructor: Dietrich Schuller, Austria
• Cataloguing of sound archives
  Instructor: Chris Clark, England
• Sound archives and new technologies
  Instructor: Albretch Haefner, Deutschland
• Strategies for the organization and handling of television archives
  Instructor: Tedd Urnes, Norway
• Use and application of metadata in audio-visual archives
  Instructor: Annemieke de Jong/Holland and Kevin Bradley/ Australia
• Systems of digital storage in media libraries
  Instructor: Rainer Hubert, Austria