Screening the Future 2011 Highlights

On the 14th & 15th of March 2011, more than two hundred audiovisual archivists, librarians, museum professionals, film makers, advocates and policy managers working in cultural heritage gathered at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision for the Screening the Future 2011 conferenceIn focusing on the questions, what are we preserving, how can we fund our future, where do AV archives meet IT, how can we valorise our archives, and how will we keep our archives in good shape, Screening the Future presented a number of benchmarks, issues and challenges, and delivered a range of guidelines, workflows and standards for the preservation of our audiovisual heritage. Screening the Future 2011 was also marked by the inauguration of the PrestoCentre Foundation.

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Video Registrations

Creating Preservation Scenarios, Understanding Risks and Estimating Costs
Matthew Addis (IT Innovation) & Richard Wright (BBC R&D)

How Few Copies?
David Rosenthal (Stanford University; LOCKSS Project)


Building Workflows for Digitsation and Digital Preservation

The Library of Congress Experience
James Snyder (Library of Congress)

Memnon and DR
Michel Merten (Memnon) & Tobias Golodnoff (DR)

A Case Study: Images for the Future
Tom de Smet (Sound and Vision) & Paul Collard (Deluxe 142)

Workflows for Digitisation and Digital Preservation
Jim Lindner (Media Matters)

Introduction to Transcoding: Tools and Processes
Skip Elsheimer (A/V Geeks) & Dave Rice (Audiovisual Preservation Solutions)


Towards a New Enlightment - Moving Images, Recorded Sound, and the Promise of New Technology
Peter Kaufman (Intelligent Television)

Big Data, Linked Data
Paul Miller (Cloud of Data)

The Reliability, Authenticity and Trust (RAT) Pipeline from Produce to Consumer in Audiovisual Archiving
Seamus Ross (Faculty of Information, University of Toronto)

Scaling up, Scaling Down: Making the Most of What We Have
Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive)

European Research and Funding Opportunities
Javier Hernandez Ros, Head of Unit Cultural Heritage and Technology Enhanced Learning (European Commission DG Information Society and Media, Directorate Digital Content and Cognitive Systems)

Innovation and Culture
Antoine Aubert (Google)