BAAC conference 2012

Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council
Annual Conference 2012

"From digitization to access and research"

The BAAC annual conference will be held this year in Helsinki, Finland, October 3 - 5, 2012.

The conference will be hosted by the Finnish National Audiovisual Archive (KAVA), Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE), the Finnish Jazz and Pop Archive (JAPA) and the Finnish Institute of Recorded Sound.

The following topics will be discussed at the conference:

- Access and academic research

- Copyright issues in audiovisual archiving

- Engagement of the users: crowd sourcing and other possibilities

- Digitization projects and preservation

- Re-use of archival materials

In addition, there will be presentations and visits to Finnish audiovisual archives. Many Finnish archives have ambitious digitization programs, and KAVA already provides researchers online access to all national radio and television programs aired since 2010.

The conference will be held on the premises of KAVA in Helsinki. The conference language will be English.

Call for papers

BAAC invites proposals for presentations on the themes of the 2012 conference. All proposals must be accompanied by a brief abstract (max. 250 words), and should be sent to zane[at]baacouncil.org before May 31, 2012.

More information: www.baacouncil.org