Program
Saturday - November 15

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8:30 am - 10:00 am
New Media Distribution Technologies

Chair:
Stephen Parr - San Francisco Media Archive/OddballFilm+Video

Speakers:
Joel S. Bachar - Microcinema International
Angelo Sacerdote - Bay Area Video Coalition
Brian Newman - Tribeca Film Institute
Jonathan Marlow - San Francisco Cinematheque

This session will be to examine the newest media technologies including and content creation tools and examine new methods of “medialess” distribution including online and cellular delivery. This session will provide clear options for independents as well as small archives to distribute their works in new ways consistent with the ever-evolving technologies of today and the future. Panelists will also examine and recommends methods of archiving and preserving this media for the future. A companion screening will further illuminate the media’s potential. Sponsored by Independent Media Interest Group and Access Committee.

8:30 am - 10:00 am
New Database Tools for Conservation Management

Chair:
Catherine Cormon - Nederlands Filmmuseum

Speakers:
Catherine Cormon - Nederlands Filmmuseum
Reto Kromer - reto.ch Ltd
Benjamin Moskowitz - Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University

The three database systems presented in this session have all been recently developed by archivists. They link together several aspects of audiovisual archival work, and offer capabilities for the management of conservation, a function often overlooked in available databases. These tools are designed to support the performance of many tasks, ranging from inventory to assessment, prioritization, selection, research, decision-making, preservation and de-accessioning. All three systems are devised to integrate conservation work into the information system.

8:30 am - 10:00 am
Gently Down the Stream II: Update on Moving Image Streaming Projects

Co-Chairs:
Ruta Abolins - Univeristy of Georgia Libraries
Sheila McAlister - University of Georgia Libraries

Speakers: Ruta Abolins - Univeristy of Georgia Libraries
Sheila McAlister - University of Georgia Libraries
Craig Breaden - University of Georgia Libraries
Barbara McCaskill - University of Georgia
Christina Davis - University of Georgia

This session will focus on the Civil Rights Digital Library and how the project was created, the project partners involved, the research needed, the metadata creation, the moving image preservation, and the creation of streaming media. This project is more than one web site but several — an educational portal, a site for producers and others to locate footage, and an on-line library to the movement, and a site specific to one part of the movement. Our goal is to highlight the regional holdings available here in the state of Georgia and to demonstrate how partnerships and the use of the same footage (over 30 hours worth), across distinctly different websites creates a rich experience for users, educators, and students.

10:30 am- 12:00 pm
Models of Online A/V Archives: Business, Technology,
Mission, and Workflow

Chair:
Jack Brighton - WILL AM-FM-TV

Speakers:
Karen Cariani - WGBH Educational Foundation
John Lynch - Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Jonathan Marmor - Thirteen/WNET

In the YouTube era, people increasingly take for granted public access to moving images. But a successful online A/V archive takes more than uploading clips. This session will present case studies of extensive online collections from the CBC/Radio-Canada Digital Archives, WGBH/Boston, Thirteen/New York, and the Vanderbilt Television News Archive. Presenters will discuss business models, mission, organization, and technologies used in each case, providing insight into the range of online archives and how they are maintained.

10:30 am- 12:00 pm
A Queer Sort of Collaboration:
Building LGBT Moving Image Collections

Chair:
Kristin Pepe - Outfest - Legacy Project

Speakers:
Kristin Pepe - Outfest - Legacy Project
Andrea Leigh - Library of Congress
Lynn Kirste - Academy Film Archive
Michael C. Oliveira - ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
Brent Phillips - The Fales Library

The preservation and collection of LGBT moving images have historically posed unique challenges for traditional archives. Building collaborations between queer organizations and archives has opened avenues for working together on preservation projects and the archiving of unique LGBT work. This panel will focus on the potential models for dealing with the various technical, logistical and theoretical issues around collaborations between organizations and archives, with a queer bent. Short clips from films in each collection will be featured. Co-sponsored by the AMIA LGBT Interest Group and the AMIA Diversity Task Force.

10:30 am- 12:00 pm
Mobile Media Screening

Co-Chairs:
Stephen Parr - San Francisco Media Archive/OddballFilm+Video
Melissa Dollman - Schlesinger Library Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

Cell phones and mobile media tools are now part of our viewing environment. This screening features an international selection of cell phone and Flash media shorts and digitally made works for mobile media and the web. Works are drawn from the Tribeca Film Institute, San Francisco’s Disposable Film Festival, Microcinema International’s Mobile Exposure’s Film Festival and the SF Bay Area Video Coalition’s Media Youth Program as well as selected independent and regional media makers. The screening will challenge and entertain, educate and inform viewers to the diversity and evolution of mobile media. Co-Sponsored by the Digital Initiatives Committee & the Access Committee.

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Open Source Collection Management Meeting (Open to all)

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Membership Committee Meeting

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Regional Audiovisual Archives Interest Group Meeting

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Interest Group Meeting

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Publications Committee and Academic Archival Interst Group Meeting

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Education Committee Meeting

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Digital Initiatives Committee Meeting

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Digitizing Video 101

Chair:
Rick Prelinger - Prelinger Archives

Speakers:
Rick Prelinger - Prelinger Archives
Jim Wheeler - Digital Forward
Angelo Sacerdote - Bay Area Video Coalition
David Rice - Democracy Now
Skip Elsheimer - AV Geeks and Image Fortress

As analog videotapes deteriorate and playback machines fall out of production, video digitization is becoming an urgent archival priority. Despite the proliferation of relatively inexpensive and simple tools, many archivists do not yet understand digitizing procedures, workflows and considerations. This session will provide advice and experience on the first steps of digitizing analog videotape collections and briefly discuss how collection usage can expand after digitization.

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Licensing in the Digital Era: ASCIL GRID 2.0

Chair:
Max Segal - ACSIL / Home Box Office

Speakers:
Max Segal - ACSIL / Home Box Office
Allison Smith - WGBH TV
Lee Shoulders - Getty Images
Jessica Berman-Bogdan - Global ImageWorks, LLC.

The ACSIL Grid is a revolutionary new way of thinking about licensing. It is designed to create a new paradigm for licensing stock footage clips and whole programs, and may be extended to music as well. Today most archives base their licensing on the technical platforms used to deliver content to viewers: broadcast, cable, Internet, VOD, mobile devices, etc. In the new digital era, where programs migrate and morph from platform to platform, this system can be difficult to use, with confusing rights language and licensing practices that change rapidly. Some points to note on the Grid: 1) The ACSIL Grid provides clear language to think about content in a new way. 2) Licensing is determined by completion of the grid’s seven categories. 3) The ACSIL Grid is a universal licensing structure. 4) The Grid allows the license to be defined by the customer, rather than the licensor. 5) The ACSIL Grid is flexible and able to handle any kind of licensing situation.

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Accessive Speed: Giving Moving Images to the Public
in Challenging Times

Co-Chairs:
Carolyn Faber - Midwest Media Archives Alliance
Sara Chapman - Media Burn Independent Video Archive

Speakers:
Geoff Alexander - Academic Film Archives of North America
Alex Cherian - San Francisco Bay Area TV Archive, San Francisco State University

Amidst challenging copyright issues, shrinking budgets and rapidly evolving technologies some small archives have initiated creative corporate, technological and academic partnerships to provide online access to moving image collections. This panel will present the work of several archives in various stages of designing, implementing and maintaining online access to their collections. Newsfilm, independent documentary video and academic film collections are front and center for this presentation and lively discussion. Co-sponsored by the Access Committee and the Independent Media Interest Group. Sponsored by the Independent Media Interest Group and the Access
Committee.

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Access That Pays For Itself: Ethics, Legalities and Logistics of Licensing Amateur Films

Chair:
Leah Churner - New York University

Speakers:
Lynne Kirste - Academy Film Archive
Nancy Watrous - Chicago Film Archives

Kelli Hix - Country Music Hall of Fame and MuseumAs small stock footage libraries approach extinction, archives with home movie and amateur film collections are increasingly asked to provide historical moving image material to documentary filmmakers and other media producers. What are the ethical and legal ramifications for repurposing personal films? How can licensing generate revenue for infrastructure? Archivists from four important institutions will address their own licensing strategies and explore best practices for deposit agreements, cataloging, and responding to producers’ requests.

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
From the Edit Room to the Archive: Saving DV

Chair:
Mona Jimenez - Moving image Archiving and Preservation Program - New York University

Speakers:
Mona Jimenez - Moving image Archiving and Preservation Program, New York University
Ben Moskowitz - Elmer Holmes Bobst Library,
New York University
Peter Oleksik - Moving image Archiving and Preservation Program - New York University
Heather Lyon Weaver - Video Editor/Preservationist

Are you (or should you be) collecting hard drives containing projects files, graphics/sound/video files for ‘born digital’ video (DV) works? This session will demystify the process of computer-based editing of small format DV, revealing not only what’s produced in terms of masters and elements, but also key files such as edit decision lists and XML. Learn how to de-construct a production’s “archive”, and about the difficulties and opportunities in capturing information necessary to maintain the look and feel, integrity, and completeness of these works over time. The feasibility of integrating archival practices into production workflow will be explored, as well other possibilities for creator-archivist collaborations. Examples will be drawn from independent productions including from the grassroots collective Deep Dish TV.

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Future Directions: Electronic Publishing

Chair:
Dan Streible, New York University

Speakers:
Christina Lane, University of Miami
Alisa Perren, Georgia State University
Mark Williams, Dartmouth College

This panel looks at evolving forms of scholarly analysis and publication about moving images. No longer “new” exactly, online publications enable different modes of discourse and interactivity, but also present challenges that printed journals never knew. Is the long-desired form — journals with embedded moving images that illustrate their texts — now at hand?  What advancements (or losses) are electronic journals providing study of moving images and sound? Will they last? 

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Closing Night Cocktail Party

Please join us for AMIA’s eighteenth closing night and say goodbye until next year.

9:00pm - 10:30pm
Tour: Haunted Pub Crawl

After you've had a chance to have some dinner at any of Savannah's great restaurants, guides will meet the group for a creepy pub-crawl. Visit some of the city's many pubs and explore stories of ghosts, mystery and intrigue as you stroll around the Historic District. You'll stop along the way for spirited libations. You will be returned to the hotel at the conclusion of the tour. Pre-registration is required with a separate registration fee.

 

 

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