Submitted by Richard Ranft on Fri, 10/09/2010 - 01:33
The 41st Annual IASA Conference will be held jointly with AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists) at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel in Philadelphia November 2-6, 2010, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Please find all conference information as well as the submission form on the conference website at www.iasa-conference.com
hashtag: #iasamia10
Submitted by Richard Ranft on Thu, 05/08/2010 - 19:49
The (U.S.) Federal Agencies Audio-Visual Working Group would like to inform readers of a user-community technical meeting pertaining to digital target formats for video preservation reformatting. The meeting will coincide with the IASA/AMIA joint conference in Philadelphia and will be held on November 1 from 3-6 pm, final location to be determined. The hope is that technically oriented persons from interested organizations will attend.
Submitted by Richard Ranft on Thu, 05/08/2010 - 18:41
The UNESCO World Day for AV Heritage is approaching. The following information comes from the CCAAA, and May Yu, the IFLA Representative for the UNESCO World Day. Could you please inform your members accordingly and encourage them to let us know of their activities?
The official theme for 2010 World Day is "Save and Savour Your Audiovisual Heritage - Now!"
Submitted by Richard Ranft on Tue, 03/08/2010 - 19:04
We're all producing audiovisual files, but has anyone ever seen one? Where do they live? Can you point to one? Will you flip a switch or click on an icon and find nothing but a puff of smoke, or an error message? Do you know about the encoding and metadata inside the file, and the wrapper around it all? Do you know how to deal with 'compression' (data reduction) - when to avoid it, how to live with it, how to escape it, and what the roadmap is for your own audiovisual files?
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