Preliminary Schedule
Subject to Change

TUESDAY - NOVEMBER 15, 2011

8:30am - 5:30pm | Foothills I | Separate Registration Required
Workshop: Can My Archive Live Forever?

11:00am - 5:00pm | Austin History Center | Separate Registration Required
Activist Archiving Workshop: Working on the Austin History Center’s 16mm Film Library

WEDNESDAY – NOVEMBER 16, 2011

8:30am - 5:30pm | Harry Ransom Center | Separate Registration Required
A PBCore Cataloging Workshop

12:30pm - 5:30pm | Alamo Drafthouse: Lamar | Separate Registration Required
The Reel Thing Technical Symposium

6:30pm - 7:30pm | Texas Ballroom Foyer
Opening Night Cocktails

8:00pm - 10:00pm | Foothills II
AMIA Fifth Annual Trivia Throwdown!

11:30pm | Alamo Ritz – Free Admission
AMIA Reels Of Steel

THURSDAY – NOVEMBER 17, 2011

7:30am - 8:30am | Main Floor Bar | Pre-registration Required
Newcomer’s Mixer

8:30am - 6:30pm | Texas Ballroom I
AMIA Vendor Cafe & Continental Breakfast

9:00am - 10:00am | Foothills II
Hierarchical Datastructure and Fully-Integrated Workflows in BFI’s New CID system

9:00am - 10:00am | Hill Country C
History Online: Balancing Historical Integrity and Increased Access at Three International Archives

9:00am - 10:00am | Foothills I
Real or Fake: Navigating the Pitfalls of Entertainment Memorabilia Authentication

10:30am – 11:30am | Foothills II
What Should We Do Today: Toward an Interim-Master for the Preservation of Digital
Audiovisual Materials

10:30am - 12:00pm | Hill Country C
Archive and the Commons: Why Archives Should Embrace Openness

10:30am - 12:00pm | Foothills I
The Challenges of Conserving Interactive, Multi-Channel Time Based Media

12:00pm - 1:00pm | Padre Island
Meeting: Access Committee

12:00pm - 1:00pm | Big Bend A-B
Meeting: Cataloging & Metadata Committee

12:00pm - 1:00pm | Big Bend C-D
Meeting: Membership Services Committee

12:30pm - 1:30pm | Harry Ransom Center
Meeting: Moving Image Related Materials and Documentation Committee

1:00pm - 2:00pm | Padre island
Meeting: Advocacy Committee

1:00pm - 2:00pm | Big Bend C-D
Meeting: Independent Media Committee

1:00pm - 2:00pm | Big Bend A-B
Meeting: Preservation Committee

2:00pm - 3:30pm | Foothills II
The Digital Dilemma 2 … It Continues

2:00pm - 3:30pm | Hill Country C
Session of Two Presentations
- Developing a Media Preservation Program at Indiana University Bloomington
- Was That Pill Blue or Red? Tags and Comments for Online Resources

2:00pm - 3:30pm | Foothills I
Texas Moving Image Histories

4:00pm - 5:30pm | Foothills I
Session of Two Presentations
- Archivo Memoria: Preserving Orphan Film in Mexico
- Video Won’t Wait: Regional Orphan TV & Video Preservation in California, New York, and New Orleans

4:00pm - 5:30pm | Hill Country C
Out of Print: the Changing Landscape of Print Accessibility at Film Archives

4:00pm - 5:30pm | Foothills II
We Are What We Repeatedly Do: Applying Aristotle to Quality

5:30pm - 6:30pm | Texas Ballroom I
Cocktails in the Vendor Cafe

5:30pm - 6:30pm | Padre Island
Meeting: Copyright Committee

5:30pm - 6:30pm | Big Bend C-D
Meeting: Digital Issues Committee

7:30pm - 10:30pm | Paramount Theatre
AMIA’s Archival Screening Night

FRIDAY – NOVEMBER 18, 2011

8:30am - 4:00pm | Texas Ballroom I
AMIA Vendor Cafe & Poster Presentations

9:00am - 10:30am | Texas Ballroom 4
AMIA 2011 Plenary

11:00am - 12:30pm | Foothills II
Session of Three Presentations
- 16mm Nitrate Films at the Museo Nazionale del Cinema.
- From Zapruder to History - The Restoration of the JFK Film
- The Attractions are Coming: The SabuCat Trailer Collection at the Academy Film Archive

11:00am - 12:30pm | Hill Country A
Digitization, Reboot!

11:00am - 12:30pm | Foothills I
The Current and Future State of Moving Image Archival Education

12:30pm - 2:30pm | Texas Ballroom 4 | Pre-registration Required
AMIA Awards & Scholars Luncheon

2:30pm - 3:30pm | Foothills II
Building a Preservation Solution for the BFI’s Master Film Collection

2:30pm - 3:30pm | Hill Country A
Free Public Access by Monetizing Content? A Successful Non-Profit/Corporate Model

2:30pm - 3:30pm | Foothills I
Tools for Collection Assessment and Determining Preservation Priorities

4:00pm - 5:30pm | Foothills I
Educating Film Preservation: Building Future Audiences

4:00pm - 5:30pm | Hill Country A
Fatally Flawed Film Formats

4:00pm - 5:30pm | Foothills II
Long Term Access to AV Material: Estimating the Costs

5:30pm - 6:30pm | Big Bend A-B
Meeting: Education Committee

5:30pm - 6:30pm | Big Bend A-B
Meeting: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Committee

5:30pm - 6:30pm | Foothills I
Meeting: Open Source Committee

8:00pm - 9:30pm | Foothills II
Home Movies of Silent Film Stars

9:30pm - 11:00 pm | Town Lake Gazebo
Seeding the Clouds: Film on Fog

SATURDAY – NOVEMBER 19, 2011

7:30am - 8:30am | Padre Island
Meeting: Projection and Presentation Committee

8:30am - 10:00am | Foothills I
Session of Three Presentations

- One Size Fits All: Bringing Old and New Films Online
- Secure Media Network: Building a Digital Repository for a Diverse Coalition of Analog Video Collections
- Video Archiving From Start-up to First Migration: A Report

8:30am - 10:00am | Foothills II
IMAP Presents: Case Studies in Independent Media Preservation

8:30am - 10:00am | Hill Country A
The American Archive Content Inventory Project: Methods, Challenges and Next Steps

9:00am | Paramount Theatre
Screening: We Can’t Go Home Again

10:30am - 12:00pm | Hill Country A
Access to Three Family Collections: How’d We Do It?

10:30am - 12:00pm | Foothills I
Film Reportage of the Southwest in the Silent Film Era

10:30am - 12:00pm | Foothills II
Non-custodial Approaches to Video Archiving: Perspectives from Human Rights Collections

10:45am | Paramount Theatre
Screening: Passages from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake

12:00pm - 1:00pm | Big Bend C-D
Meeting: News, Documentary & Television Committee

12:00pm - 1:00pm | Padre Island
Meeting: Nitrate Committee

12:00pm - 1:00pm | Big Bend A-B
Meeting: Small Gauge and Amateur Film Committee

12:00pm - 1:00pm | Foothills I
Publications Committee: Get it in Writing - Publishing in The Moving Image, the AMIA Tech Review and the AMIA Newsletter

1:00pm - 2:00pm | Padre Island
Meeting: Awards and Scholarships Committee

1:00pm - 2:00pm | Big Bend C-D
Meeting: International Outreach Committee

1:00pm - 2:00pm | Big Bend A-B
Meeting: Publications Commitee

1:00pm | Paramount Theatre
Amateur Night: Home Movies from American Archives

2:00pm - 3:00pm | Hill Country A
Preservation & Access for Next Generation Archives

2:00pm - 3:00pm | Foothills I
Getting Your Archival Films Online: One Archive’s Story

2:00pm - 3:00pm | Foothills II
Really, What Are You Going To Do With That?: Preservation Perspectives on
Unconventional Moving (and Not Moving) Images

3:00pm | Paramount Theatre
Screening: Word is Out: the Stories of Some of Our Lives

3:30pm - 5:00pm | Texas Ballroom I
AMIA General Membership Meeting

5:30pm - 6:30pm | Texas Foyer
AMIA Closing Night Cocktails

8:00pm | Paramount Theatre
AMIA Restoration Screening

 

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