Redefining The Audiovisual Archives In The Digital Age
Bangkok, Thailand, 27-31 May 2013
CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
| DR. DANIEL TERUGGI | Keynote Address: What Future For Our Archives? |
 Head of Research, Ina, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel |
Born in Argentina in 1952, Daniel Teruggi has developed his professional career in France, where he lives since 1977. Composer and researcher, he works since 1981 at Ina (National Audiovisual Institute) in Paris. He has been the Director of Ina’s Musical Research Group, GRM, since 1997 and Director for the Research and Experimentation department of Ina since 2001.In the Research domain, he has been actively working on the preservation of audiovisual collections and particularly electroacoustic music. He has been the coordinator of the FP6 European project PrestoSpace, dedicated to the development of new technology for Digital preservation. He is actually coordinating the FP7 European project PrestoPRIME, dedicated to the long-term preservation of audiovisual digital contents. He is member of the Europeana project and Foundation and head of the Preservation and Migration commission at the International Federation of Audiovisual Archives (FIAT/IFTA).
He has composed nearly 80 works, mainly for the concert and always using electroacoustic devices with or without acoustic instruments. He is the author of numerous research articles related to sound and musical perception as well as musical analysis. His music has been performed in more than 30 countries and published in different CD collections. He is founding member of the International Electroacoustic Musical Studies network. PhD in Art and Technology at the University of Paris VIII, Daniel Teruggi, has developed an important educational activity at the Sorbonne University or as visiting professor in Hertfordshire (GB), guest professor at the TU Berlin and Universidad 3 de Febrero (Arg). |
| DR. RAY EDMONDSON | Philosophy and Principles in the Digital Age |
 Archive Associates Pty Ltd |
Ray Edmondson is Director of Archive Associates, a consultancy company (www.archival.com.au). He began his career in archiving in the Film Section of the National Library of Australia in 1968, ultimately becoming the Section’s Director. Described as the ‘moving spirit’ behind the creation of the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) in 1984, he served as its Deputy Director until early 2001, then becoming its first honorary Curator Emeritus.In 1987 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his professional work. In 2003 he received the Silver Light Award of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) for career achievement. In 2010 he received the Life Achievement Award of the South East Asia Pacific AudioVisual Archive Association (SEAPAVAA) and the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Australian Society of Archivists.
Ray writes, speaks and teaches internationally within the audiovisual archiving field. He is active in its federations and forums and writes for its professional journals. Since 1996 he has been involved in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Program, authoring its current General Guidelines and Companion, and serving on its committees, including as current chair of MOWCAP (Memory of the World Regional Committee for Asia Pacific). His monograph Audiovisual Archiving: Philosophy and Principles was published by UNESCO in 2004. His major writings have been translated into nine languages. In 2012 Ray was awarded a doctorate by the University of Canberra for his dissertationNational Film and Sound Archive: the Quest for Identity. |
| ELAINE GOH | Clear Skies or Cloudy Forecast? Challenges in the Acquisition and Preservation of Audiovisual Records in the Digital Environment |
 University of British Columbia |
Elaine Goh is a doctoral candidate at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her research interest is on archival legislation in Commonwealth countries and on organizational culture and behavior.Elaine was a graduate research assistant of the International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) Project from 2009-2011. She is currently involved in the research on Records in the Cloud, supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Prior to starting her doctoral program, Elaine worked at the National Archives of Singapore for about 10 years and last held the position of Assistant Director of Records Management. She was also the Chair of the Asian Research Team in the InterPARES Project from 2003-2006. |
| BENEDICT S. OLGADO | Shifting Paradigms: Sustainability over Rhetoric: A Socioeconomic Management Framework |
 National Film Archives of the Philippines |
Benedict Salazar Olgado is the inaugural and current Director of the National Film Archives of the Philippines. He has worked on cultural projects for various international organizations including UNESCO and ASEAN and for a number of cultural organizations including the Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, Columbia University’s C.V. Starr East Asian Library, and Applashop among others. He started his career in the heritage field as the Senior Administrator for the Southeast Asia Pacific Audiovisual Archive Association.In 2012, he received his Master’s degree in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University. He has been awarded several grants and scholarships from institutions such as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Tisch School of the Arts. In 2011, as one of the leading young audiovisual archivists in the field, he has been named the KODAK Fellow in Film Preservation.
Olgado is also currently an adjunct faculty at the College of Mass Communication in the University of the Philippines, Diliman. He is affiliated with a number of professional organizations including the Association of Moving Image Archivists where he chairs the International Outreach Committee. He is also a member of the Southeast Asia Pacific Audiovisual Archive Association and the Society of Filipino Archivists for Film. |
| ANDREW MARTIN | Refreshing the Archive: Experience in Archiving, Restoring and Content Exchange with LTFS |
 DAMsmart Media Migration |
Andrew Martin is responsible for the technical operation of the DAMsmart Media Migration platform, which includes collection digitisation, digital storage and delivery, and customer systems integration.Andrew has over 15 years experience in the broadcast industry and within the Audiovisual archive community working with clients from National and State Institutions, non for profit organisations, production houses and sporting associations.
He refined his technical expertise working as the Digital Media Specialist with the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, where he researched and developed standards for encoding analogue material for preservation, the web, production and cinema. Andrew has formal qualifications in Audiovisual Archiving from Charles Sturt University and in 2007, he established DAMsmart’s media migration platform in Canberra. Andrew has interests in digital preservation, and integrating archiving projects into communication for development programs (C4D). |
| KOVEN LO | Use of RFID Technology in the Hong Kong Film Archive |
 Hong Kong Film Archive |
Koven LO is the Assistant Curator (Conservation) responsible for the conservation of films and film-related materials of the Hong Kong Film Archive since 2008. He started his career as an assistant conservator in museums since 1996. He graduated from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology with a Chemistry first degree and holds a Master degree in Conservation from the University College London.In 2009, he started his professional training in the area of film preservation and restoration by attending the Film Preservation Certificate Program of the George Eastman House in Rochester, USA. From 2009 to 2013 he took part in the restoration of Confucius (1940), Colourful Youth (1960), Wong Fei-hung’s Whip that Smacks the Candle (1949), The Story of Wong Fei-hung, Part Two (1949) and Nobody’s Child (1960). |
| PAUL JONES | Migration Strategies, File Formats and Storage Medium |
 Front Porch Digital |
As International Sales Manager for Front Porch Digital, Paul Jones is responsible for Asia/Pacific sales of the DIVASolutions suite, which provides an integrated workflow for migrating, managing, and monetizing media content on-site or in the cloud.Jones has been with Front Porch Digital for more than four years and has been instrumental in helping to drive the company’s market share up by 80 percent. After completing his technical education in the U.K. he began working for broadcast equipment vendors and has extensive experience working with analog video workflows, facilities undergoing digital migration, and the complex file-based workflows of today. Jones is responsible for the operations of the Front Porch Digital office in Singapore, and has been working in the Asia/Pacific region for more than 20 years. |
| JAN MULLER | The Reinvention of the Audio Visual Archive |
 Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision; FIAT/IFTA |
Jan Müller (1967) studied commercial economics in Amsterdam and at INSEAD. He is the CEO at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid). He started there in april 2009, after 20 years of working in the advertising industry. He previously worked in senior positions at a number of network agencies and was a partner at JWT Amsterdam and member of the board at TBWA Amsterdam. The last 6 years before he moved to Sound and Vision, he was the CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi in the Netherlands and member of the board of Saatchi & Saatchi Europe.Currently, he is president of FIAT/IFTA (International Federation of Television Archives) and chairman of the Dutch Media Literacy programme. He is also president of the PrestoCentre Foundation (the international competence centre for digital preservation) and vice president of the Dutch National Coalition for Digital Preservation and Sustainability. The link with his previous field of work he retains in his role as chairman of the Dutch Advertising Archive and member of the board of the Dutch Press Musuem. He wrote a book about innovation in advertising and has published several articles in the trade press about advertising, creativity and media. |
| MICK NEWNHAM | Yin and Yang: AV Media Preservation Meets Social Media |
National Film and Sound Archive, Australia and ROD BUTLER |
Mick Newnham is currently the Manager of Conservation, Preparation and Research, at the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) based in Canberra, Australia. In his role as a researcher Mick engages in original research on issues surrounding the conservation and long-term preservation of audiovisual media such as film, magnetic tape and optical discs.From 2000-2005 Mick was the Chair of the of the South East Asia Pacific Audio Visual Archives Association (SEAPAVAA) Technical Committee and from 2005-2008 Mick was on SEAPAVAA’s Executive Council.
Mick has contributed to the work of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) Technical Commission, the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Preservation Committee and the International Organization for Standardization’s TC 42 WG 5. TC-42 WG5 develops standards and recommended practices for the care of audio visual materials. Since 1995 Mick has been providing consultancies and training in audiovisual preservation and collection management on behalf of organisations such as UNESCO, SEAPAVAA and ASEAN. These consultancies have been conducted throughout Australia, SE Asia, USA, Europe, the Caribbean, Mexico, West Africa and India. Mick is a lecturer and tutor in audio visual preservation with the Charles Sturt University on-line course “Preservation of AV Materials”. |
| KAREN CHAN | A Redefined Archive: The Asian Film Archive from Concept to Reality |
 Asian Film Archive |
Karen Chan started working in audiovisual archiving at the National Archives of Singapore 15 years ago. Her work experiences since then include curating exhibitions for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, working in corporate communications at the Singapore National Arts Council, and teaching English and History at the secondary school level.In 2006, Karen joined the Asian Film Archive (AFA) as a pioneer staff, later becoming its Archivist, managing the acquisition and preservation of its collection. Since 2010, she has been the Acting Director of the AFA. Apart from overseeing its operations, Karen helms the AFA’s outreach department, developing and teaching film literacy and preservation courses to educators, students, and the general public.
She is also currently a councillor on the Executive Council of the Southeast Asia Pacific Audiovisual Archive Association. |
| EROS ARBILON | On the Road and Online: Developing Avenues for Access and Advocacy |
 National Film Archives of the Philippines |
Eros Arbilon is currently a senior archivist at the National Film Archives of the Philippines (NFAP) serving as its operations manager. He started his career in audiovisual preservation as a film archiving associate with the Alexis Tioseco Internship Program in 2010. After which he became an apprentice under Ricky Orellana, the archivist at the Mowelfund Film Institute.In 2011, when NFAP was established, Arbilon was one of its pioneer archivists. In the same year, he underwent training on digital preservation at the Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA) in France.
Arbilon handles film trafficking and technical support for the advocacy programs for the Film Development Council of the Philippines. He also currently serves as a board member of the Society of Filipino Archivists for Film (SOFIA). |
| LEO KATIGBAK | The Film Archive: Dealing with Digitization and Restoration |
 ABS-CBN Film Archives, Philippines |
Former Studio 23 Managing Director Leo Katigbak was appointed Head of ABS-CBN’s Special Projects under the Office of the President in March 2008 reporting directly to President Charo Santos-Concio. He is tasked to oversee proper management implementation of assigned key projects and corporate strategies that have direct impact in advancing the company’s total business imperatives.In August 2012, he was appointed head of the newly-formed Content Management Group and formally initiated the film restoration project under the ABS-CBN Film Archives. In addition to this, he has oversight over the Licensing Group and TV Food Chefs.
Leo has been with the company since 1987, starting out as writer/editor/director/producer before moving to the corporate side of the business in 1992. He started the ABS-CBN Archives and concurrently worked in ABS-CBN Acquisitions prior to his assignment in STUDIO 23 as Head of Programming / Acquisitions, and subsequently, Head of Studio 23. |