AMIA/IASA 2010 Joint Conference
Tuesday - November 2
Preliminary Program
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Print the Preliminary Program [PDF]8:00am - 5:00pm Separate Registration Fee Required
Workshop: Cataloging and Metadata for Moving Images [Two Days]
Chair: Karen Barcellona - Academy Film Archive
Speakers: Andrea Leigh - Library of Congress
Linda Tadic - Audiovisual Archive Network
Amy Lucker - New York University
Rebecca S. Guenther - Library of Congress
Randal Luckow - Turner Broadcasting
Janis L. Young - Library of Congress
Nancy Goldman - Pacific Film Archive Library & Film Study Center
Grace Agnew - Rutgers University Libraries
Jane Otto - Rutgers University LibrariesA two-day workshop providing an overview of cataloging practices, content standards, and metadata schemas used in describing digital and analog materials in all media environments. Sessions will focus on management of resources through their life cycles; the differences between descriptive, structural, and administrative metadata (including rights and preservation metadata); an introduction to the use of file wrappers with examples from the broadcast industry; and a discussion of the role of the librarian in digital asset management. Sense will be made of the alphabet soup that includes RBR, MARC, DC, MODS, METS, PREMIS, FIAT, IPTC, MPEG7, MPEG21, MXF, RDA, FIAF, CEN, DACS, and EAD.
Sessions will include dynamic presentations encompassing film, video, digital, and broadcast materials with interactive exercises and clips. A special half-day hands-on session will describe genre/form thesauri available for describing moving image works, and provide an overview of the the Library of Congress' genre/form project for moving images, including how the genre/form headings are used symbiotically with Library of Congress Subject Headings to describe both what a work is and what it is about. Presenters include well-respected experts in the field who take care to design sessions that are highly engaging and reflect the most current developments in audiovisual archiving.
8:30am - 12:30pm Separate Registration Fee Required
Workshop: Digital Preservation for Audiovisual Collections: OAIS and All That
Chairs: Marius Snyders - Nat Inst for Sound and Vision
Richard Wright - BBC R&DSpeakers: Waltre Allasia - Eurix
Nan Rubin - Community Media Services / NDIIPP Project Preserving Digital Public Television
The workshop will cover the strategy, workflow and architecture for digital preservation of audiovisual content -- and present PrestoCentre, the new European Audiovisual Competence Centre supporting audiovisual preservation. Content of the workshop will include: (1) digitisation: most audiovisual content remains on discrete carriers, on shelves. The workshop will summarise: conservation; how (and when) to digitise; formats and encodings; metadata and preservation metadata. (2) digital preservation: what to do with files (and with digital content not yet in files: DV, DVD, DAT). There is extensive digital library and digital preservation technology -- OAIS and all that, but much of that technology only works on text, and needs a lot more consideration to be effective on audiovisual content. Format of the workshop: a) state of the art reviews: concise explanations of best practice, in particular the Preserving Digital Public Television project (Channel 13 and New York University) and related work implementing OAIS for broadcasting. b) case studies: examples of the situations real archives face c) questions from the floor: participants' own situations, and questions.
9:00am - 5:00pm - Separate Registration Fee Required
Chair: George Blood - Safe Sound Archive
Chances are if you have an advanced degree in archives, libraries or museum studies you don't have much training in sound preservation. If you studied sound or motion image, sound preservation may also be new. This workshop starts at the beginning, and takes the student through digitization ("what do all those numbers mean"), includes a session on assessment -- with a hands-on period with media, digitization and metadata!! We'll show how sound is digitized, how files are constructed, discuss metadata standards and their implementation. We'll wrap up looking at long-term planning, obsolescence monitoring, and other topics relevant to all digital preservation.
9:00am - 5:00pm
IASA Committees and Sections
Each session will start with a committee-relevant paper presentations (TBA).Stream 1
9:00-11:00 Training and Education Committee
11:00-13:00 Technical Committee
13:00-15:00 Research Archive Section
15:00-17:00 Discography CommitteeStream 2
10:00-12:00 Organising Knowledge
(previously Cataloguing and Documentation)
12:00-14:00 Broadcast Archives Section
14:00-16:00 National Archives Section9:00am - 5:00pm - Separate Registration Fee Required
Speakers: Bruce Gordon - Bruce Gordon - Harvard University, Ed Kuhn Loeb Music Library
Alan Burdette - Indiana University - Archives of Traditional MusicHarvard and Indiana universities have cooperated earlier in a project called "Sound Directions - Digital Preservation and Access for Global Audio Heritage", the results of which are available online in the form of a booklet of 'Best Practices for Audio Preservation' as well as a toolkit. Their respective institutions continue to cooperate and develop solutions in low- budget and open-source software for audio/audiovisual heritage, which are offered here in a hands-on, how-to workshop for implementation in your archive, within the themes of preservation, access and collection management.
1:00pm - 5:00pm -Separate Registration Fee Required
Tour: Centuries of Beauty - A Cultural Philadelphia JourneyTake a journey through Philadelphia's cultural treasures. We will board our deluxe transportation for a tour of the outdoor sculpture, murals and architecture that make Philadelphia a cultural beauty. Next, visit the Rodin Museum, housing the largest collection of Rodin's major works outside of Paris, including bronze castings, plaster studies, drawings, prints, letters and books. The final visit is to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, America's thrid largest art museum with more than 300,000 works of art in 200 rooms, with objects dating from the third millenium BC. All guests will receive an Audio Tour and two hours to explor the mseum at your own pace. And if you finish early - you can visit the Rocky Balboa statue at the bottom of the Museum's steps. Includes trasnportation, admission to the Rodin Museum and Philadelphia Museum of Art including audio tour, professionally trained tour guide, taxes and gratuities. A minimum of 40 guests are needed to guarantee the tour.
1:30pm - 5:30pm Separate Registration Fee Required
Speakers: Nadja Wallaszkovits - Phonogrammarchiv - Austrian Academy of Sciences
The workshop discusses the basic approach to digital audio restoration, focussing on an archival perspective: Starting with a critical assessment of the source material and it's artefacts, exemplified by means of measurements, spectral analyses and audio examples, the workshop outlines the implication of different signal processing procedures and compares the professional guidelines of classical restoration in cultural heritage with daily practice in the audio world. A wide knowledge about the original source and its production process, storage conditions and re-recording influences is essential to properly decide if and how artefacts should be restored in a historically and ethically accurate way. Finally the discussion addresses ethical and aesthetical questions and traces the various stages between restoration, re-issue, re-mastering and reinterpretation.
5:30pm - 8:00pm Separate Registration Fee Required
Penn Museum After Hours ReceptionPenn Museum Archive is hosting a reception for visiting AMIA and IASA members! Featured at the reception will be an exhibition of production stills from Matto Grosso (1931), one of the earliest sync sound documentary films. A museum sponsored expeditionary film which takes place in interior Brazil, Matto Grosso will also be screened continuously on monitors in one of the galleries. Matto Grosso was restored with a grant from NFPF in 2008.8:00pm - Separate Registration Fee Required
Tour: Midtown Pub CrawlJust steps from the Loews hotel is Midtown Village - Philadelphia's newest trendy neighborhood. Abuzz with new life, guides will discuss the background of several restored turn-of-the-century buildings that now serve as the backdrop for Philadelphia's new hub of eating and drinking establishments. One of the pubs we'll vist will be McGillin's Olde Ale House. McGillin's threw open its doors the year Lincoln was elected president. The beer taps have been flowing since 1860, making it the oldest continuously operating tavern in Philadelphia - even outlasting Prohibition. Includes tour guides, pub-crawl, tax and gratuity. Does not include drinks. Guests will be returned to the hotel at the conclusion. A minimum of 34 guests are needed to guarantee the tour.
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