Archiving The Future - February 2010

Archiving The Future

Archiving the Future took place at York St John University on the 27th and 28th February 2010

Paul Read (FIAF)
Mikko Kutti (National Audiovisual Archive, Helsinki & FIAF)
Thomas Christensen (Danish Film Institute & FIAF)
James Patterson (Director of Archive for Central England)
Professor Vanessa Toulmin (Director of National Fairground Archive)
Heather Powell (BBC)
Mike Best (BestMedia & York St John university)
Robert Lamrock (Channel Development Manager, UTV Archives)
Simon Wood (Head of UK Sales, ITN Source)
Peter Fydler (Head of Sales, British Film Institute - BFI)
Paul Bader (Creative Director, Screenhouse Productions)
Andrew Baker (Managing Director, Rights.TV)
Alex Southern (Head of Education Dept, Yorkshire Film Archive)
Anna Briggs (Education Officer, Yorkshire Film Archive)
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ABOUT THE EVENT

An event for archivists, producers, freelance filmmakers, editors, researchers, production assistants, screenwriters and anyone interested in film.

The event focussed on the subject of archiving by looking predominantly from the perspective of production. The event will inform those within the field of archiving about emerging technologies which could affect the future of their work, but also those in production roles of future practices which they will need to adopt as part of their practice.

The event topics included:

Creative Commons and Online Archives
Commercial exploitation, working with commercial partners
Demonstrating public worth/commercial value of archive
Managing the Public Archive
Emerging Technologies and Archiving the Future
Archive Interface
Cross-skilling across archival formats
Industry awareness, understanding the role of archiving in production workflow
Digital asset management
Metadata systems and methods
New production practices

For any additional information please e-mail creativebusiness@yorksj.ac.uk

This event was held in partnership with Yorkshire Film Archive, supported by Skillset.