Audiovisual Archives in the 21st Century

This conference will take place in Ghent, on Wednesday 13 and Thursday 14 October 2010 in the frame of the International Film Festival of Ghent.
The detailed description of the event can be found here, together with all information regarding registration, meeting venue and background information.
The registration will close on 20 September. As room is limited, please register early to avoid disappointment.

Europeana Open Culture Conference

From the conference website...

14-15 Oct 2010 | Amsterdam

Europeana Open Culture 2010 conference will focus
on how museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual
collections can create public value by making digital,
cultural and scientific information openly available.

Europeana invites cultural institutions, information
professionals, application developers and technology
researchers to explore the risks and rewards of
openness - of code, data and content - and work together
towards Open Culture.

The Europeana conference is a free annual event which
highlights current challenges for our sector and looks for
practical solutions for the future. It connects the main actors
in cultural and scientific heritage in order to build networks
and establish future collaborations.

Film, History and WWII

Going to war, 1939-45: Film, history and the Second World War

22-23 October 2010

From the IHR website...
"The Second World War remains the most filmed historical
phenomenon of modern times. Neither cinemagoers nor film
producers seem to tire of epic battles at sea, on land and in the
air, heroic POW adventures, and dramas set on the Home Front.
The world at war at mid-century is a defining moment in our
modernity, and film has become one of the main media through
which we locate ourselves in relation to the recent past.
But the Second World War was also the heyday of cinemagoing in
societies throughout Europe and North America, and the war itself
brought about major changes in the technologies and uses of film,
from the amateur camera to the official government newsreel and short.
So the role of film in war needs to sit alongside our understanding of the
representation of war in film. With this aim in mind the latest
IHR Winter Conference has assembled a distinguished cast of film directors
and film historians to discuss, debate and view the war on screen."

The full conference programme is available here.

Keeping it in context

First EUscreen International Conference on
Content Selection Policies and Contextualisation

(Info from EUscreen website)...
4 August 2010, 8:54 am
Date: 7-8 October 2010.

Location: Casa del Cinema. Largo Marcello Mastroianni 1,
Rome, Italy.

EUscreen has organized a two-day conference on content
selection policies and contextualisation in the audiovisual domain,
to be held in Rome on October 7 and 8 2010. The conference will
focus on contextualisation of audiovisual material, especially in the
academic field. The conference programme is still under construction,
but the first day includes a plenary session focussing on
contextualisation of audiovisual material with keynotes and
presentations of use cases.
The second day comprises two workshops: one on European IPR
legislations in the audiovisual sector and the impact on the exploitation
of audiovisual and television archives, and one on best practices and
guidelines for digitising audiovisual heritage.

Best Archives on the Net

Best Archives on the Net

The Best Archives on the Net awards - re-purposing descriptive data.

The Smithsonian example sounds very interesting and useful. So much for one-size-fits-all collections management solutions.