The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) and
the Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council (BAAC) announce the

First Call for Papers

IASA-BAAC Conference in Riga, Latvia

15-20 September 2007

The theme of the IASA-BAAC 2007 conference is:

"Building an Archive for the Future"

The conference will address themes associated with the tasks audiovisual
archives are facing in a world undergoing rapid changes. It is essential
that archives develop new ways to meet future demands. Analogue and digital
collections will coexist for a while yet, depending on the resources made
available for the preservation of analogue material, the digitization
process and the management of digital content. Digitization is now
recognized as the way to go to save our audiovisual heritage, but the
issues of future migration and the sustainability of digital archives still
need to be addressed.

Digitization gives archives possibilities of delivering content via new
digital platforms thus distributing the content not only to the traditional
users but to whole new groups of audiences. At the same time, ideal open
access depends on the successful development of copyright legislation. Only
then will large-scale dissemination of content be possible. Gradually,
archives will become an even more integrated part of society.

IASA and BAAC invite proposals for papers of not more than twenty minutes
duration that address one or more of the following sub-themes:
* Role of the archives in the future
* Sustainability of archives
* Is there a need for contextualisation of AV archives?
* How to create better access to the archives
* Are the archiving principles changing?
* Legal issues (legal deposit, copyright, freedom of speech etc.)
* How to train and educate the future archivists
* How to build an archive: technical issues and options
* Content migration
* Preservation of metadata
* Small scale archives
* Towards integrated archives
* Selection policies - a necessity?
* Archiving of webpages

Proposals must be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 150 words.
The deadline for this first call for papers is 15 December 2006.
Contributors will be notified during March 2006 of the Programme
Committee`s decision.

Please send your abstract together with your name, organisation, contact
address, telephone and e-mail address to:

Per Holst

IASA Vice-President
Chair, Programme Committee

E-mail: per@dr.dk
c/o
DR (Danish Broadcasting Corp.)
Archive and Research Centre
Radio Archives
DR Byen
Emil Holms Kanal 20
DK-0999 Copenhagen C
Denmark
Phone: +45 3520 554

IASA: http://www.iasa-web.org  
BAAC: http://www.baacouncil.org/index.php?m=2

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