La transmission du patrimoine TV/Radio à l’ère numérique
Dr. Christoph Classen, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam
En partant de l’importance contemporaine et culturelle de la radiodiffusion aux XXe et XXIe siècles, le discours d’ouverture traitera des aspects de la transmission, de l’archivage et de l’utilisation des sources audiovisuelles. Outre la description des problèmes et des potentiels du passé analogique, les changements de l’ère numérique seront abordés. Les temps de la « Scarcity », de l’absence de sources historiques, sont-ils enfin révolus au profit d’un âge d’ »Abundance » (Roy Rosenzweig), d’une abondance d’images et de sons ? Si oui, qu’est-ce que cela signifie pour les archives des médias ? Et quelle influence le droit d’auteur et la protection des données ont-ils sur la visibilité du patrimoine culturel audiovisuel à l’ère numérique ?
Dr. Christoph Classen a étudié l’histoire, l’allemand et la psychologie. Depuis 2009, il est chef de projet dans le département « Histoire contemporaine des médias et de la société de l’information » du Centre de recherche historique contemporaine de Potsdam (ZZF). Ses domaines de travail incluent l’histoire des médias, les questions de culture de la mémoire et l’histoire contemporaine germano-allemande.
Publications entre autres: Faschismus und Antifaschismus. Die nationalsozialistische Vergangenheit im ostdeutschen Hörfunk 1945-1953. Köln: Böhlau 2004; Zwischen Pop und Propaganda, Radio in der DDR. Berlin: Links 2004 (Hg., mit Klaus Arnold). Gleiche Gegner? Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler und Gerhard Löwenthal als politische Publizisten im Kalten Krieg, in: Martin Sabrow (Hg.), Das Jahrhundert der Parallelbiographien. Göttingen: Wallstein 2017, S. 27-67.
Who keeps the memory? Shifting responsibilities in the management of broadcasters’ archives.
Brecht Declercq, Flemish Institute for Archiving (VIAA), Ghent, and FIAT/IFTA
As in many countries, the audiovisual heritage of Flanders is spread over many actors of very different kinds: libraries, archives, museums, universities, government bodies, arts institutions, private persons, … but for the vast majority also at broadcasters: regional, commercial and public. Also the challenges will be recognizable to many: carrier degradation, playback technology obsolescence, digital preservation and a sharply increased demand for access by audiences such as education, scientific research, professional media producers and the general public. In 2012 the Flemish government therefore decided to found a new institution: VIAA, the Flemish Institute for Archiving. VIAA does not act as a centralizing body, but as a service provider for already 150 Flemish organisations who manage a significant audiovisual archive. VIAA’s offers its partners free digitisation of their audiovisual material and sustainable digital storage at a very small fee per terabyte. In exchange, VIAA can offer the material on its own, dedicated platforms, e.g. for teachers to use audiovisual materials in the classroom. This presentation will provide more detail about the VIAA-model, but it will also compare this model with other situations and approaches in several European countries. This way we hope to offer a few high level templates of what a national audiovisual heritage landscape can look like and which place broadcasters archives can take in those.
Brecht Declercq, MA, MSc (*1981) is the Digitization and Acquisition Manager at VIAA, the national audiovisual archive of Flanders, Belgium, since 2013. As such he is responsible for the overall digitization strategy of the Flemish audiovisual heritage. Previously he worked for the Belgian public broadcaster VRT for almost 10 years as a radio archivist and a project lead in several digitization, media asset management and access projects. He’s an active voice in the international audiovisual archives world, Secretary-General of the International Federation of Television Archives FIAT/IFTA and outgoing Chair of its Preservation and Migration Commission. He writes, presents, reviews and advises to several European broadcasters and audiovisual archives.
Foto: Marcin Oliva Soto
Digital transformation and the archive: a new perspective on providing online access to audiovisual collections
Johan Oomen, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum
Digital transformation in the audiovisual heritage sector is well on its way. Analogue collections are being digitised, systems, workflows and collection policies are updated to manage the ingest of born-digital collections. Outreach strategies are being designed that to have maximum impact, reaping all the benefits that online distribution offers. At the same time, the age of fake news, privacy violations and centralisation of power, public institutions like audiovisual archives have more and more responsibilities. To offer unbiased access to information to everyone. To act as authoritative custodians of their collections. To operate free from a driving motivation to make a profit. And to stimulate the creative industries, academia, the educational to excel in their efforts to reach their audiences. Many of these aims are in the core of audiovisual archives since their inception decades ago. However, the constantly changing context make it necessary to identify the best way to fulfill them. Archives and user are now inhibiting the same information space. This has fundamental ramifications for strategic decisions on providing online access to collections. This paper examines how archives are starting to use various, complimentary channels to reach out to various user groups. It highlights which new partnerships start to emerge, the role of managing copyrights and how technological advances make it possible to connect collections to users and to other online sources of information.
Johan Oomen is head of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Research and Development department (20 FTE) and researcher at the Web and Media group of the VU University Amsterdam. Oomen and his group are working on research projects that focus on digital heritage in all its facets. Oomen holds an BA in Information Science and an MA in Media Studies. His PhD research focusses on the relation between participatory culture and institutional policy. He has worked for the British Universities Film and Video Council and commercial broadcaster RTL Nederlands and has talked at high profile events in six continents. He is board member of the Europeana Association, the EUscreen Foundation and the PublicSpaces Foundation. He is advisor to the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and the Dutch National research council for cultural heritage.
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Broadcast Archives in Sweden
Eva-Lis Green, Kungliga biblioteket National Library of Sweden, Stockholm, and FIAT/IFTA
An overview of the audio-visual archives in Sweden will be presented with major focus on Public Service Broadcast and the legal deposit of all Swedish Broadcast at the National Library of Sweden.
The content and status for the Swedish Public Service broadcaster SVT (Swedish Television) archive will be described as well as the content and status at the National Library and the legislation for legal deposit. Also in what way the Broadcaster and the Library cooperate will be covered in this presentation.
Eva-Lis Green, National Library of Sweden Head of Digital Collection department, since February 2017. Has a background at SVT, Sweden’s public Service Broadcaster as SVT Media Quality Controller at the Archives and Rights department, Head of Archives and Transmission, Head of Documentation, Information System Coordinator at the Engineering Department and also project manager for different IT-and Media Management systems. Eva-Lis is a specialist in archiving workflows and information systems in the field of media asset management. She is a member of the Executive Council of FIAT/IFTA and of the Media Management Commission. She has been active in different European and national organizations, projects and commissions in the archive and metadata field. Eva-Lis has studied Swedish language, literature and music at Lund University and has also an examination in Librarianship.
Open Archive, Open Data and Open Collaboration
Léonard Bouchet, Head of Data and Archives at RTS Radio Télévision Suisse (French speaking part of the SBC)
Overview of SRG’s national strategy for opening up its archives and how an open approach can benefit the preservation of audiovisual heritage.
Léonard Bouchet, aged 40, currently leads the national group of experts about Data and Archives in the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Since 2016, he is the Head of Data and Archives at RTS Radio Télévision Suisse (French speaking part of the SBC). He has previously lead the Digital Production for RTS and works with passion for public media since 2009.