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Archiving: A perfect storm?
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  • Content Creation and Innovation
    Date/Time: 12 Sep 2009
    17:30-18:30
    Chair: Sue Malden
    Chair of the Federation of Commercial Audio Visual Archives
    FIAT
    UNITED KINGDOM
    Speakers
  • Tony Ageh, Controller of Archive Development, BBC
  • Marcos Gonzalez-Flower, Global Head Of Media Consulting, Siemens IT Solutions and Services Ltd , UNITED KINGDOM
  • Kevin Schaff, CEO, Thought Equity Motion, U S A
  • Jean-Luc Vernhet, Director, Marketing and Sales, Ina - Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, FRANCE

    Session Details

    In the year of the credit crunch, do we turn to the archive to fill the schedule? Do file-based workflows really delivery on the promise of lower costs and increased flexibility – or is there a critical mass required? IPTV: a low-cost route to the viewer or a low-cost route to the pirate? How do you balance the long term archival and quality requirements with short term commercial drivers?

    In this panel session a group of experts will share their views and kick-start the debate. Taking an all-round view, we will look at the technology of restoration and protection and the skills of branding, distribution and rights management.

    On the way we will look at the experiences of both a well-funded, commercially focused broadcast archive to see where the commercial realities lie, and consider a much “poorer” archive to see how they can climb the digital mountain.

    Whether you regard your archive as a cultural heritage or an asset to be exploited, this session is bound to make for compelling debate.


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