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"NO TIME, NO MONEY –
MOVING IMAGE AND SOUND ARCHIVING
UNDER EMERGENCY CONDITIONS"


Docent Ph.D. Branko Bubenik
Belina Capul
Paolo Cherchi Usai
Ngo Hieu Chi
Alfonso del Amo García
Ray Edmondson
Nancy Goldman
Crispin Jewitt
Mick Newnham
Dr. Susanne Ornager

Brigitte Paulowitz
Paul Read
Edwin Van Huis

 

Docent Ph


.D. Branko Bubenik (doctor of informatology)
Director of department INDOK for 27 years in HRT (Croatian Radio-Television). Before that he worked for 12 years as a juornalist and cameraman-reporter for TV Zagreb. Gratuated at "Film,Theatre and TV Academy" in Zagreb.
Lecturing "Multimedia and digital archives" at the Study of Archivistics in Zagreb, "Media Technologies" and "Journalist Dokumentation" on Study of Journalistics.
Vice president of FIAT/IFTA,Chair of Training Commission and Executive Council member for the international organisation of TV archives FIAT/IFTA. EBU Project group P/STORE member. Head of AV archive of CIRCOM REGIONAL (European regional TV organisation)

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Belina Capul
Ms. Capul is the current Staff Director of the Motion Picture Division of Philippine Information Agency. She has also served as SEAPAVAA’s Secretary-General for 2 full consecutive terms. She is currently involved with various international, regional and national associations. Among of which is the International Advisory Committee of the Memory of the World Programme of UNESCO, ASEAN-Committee on Culture and Information, and Philippine Society of Film Archivists, etc. She has also organized, participated and presented papers in several conferences and workshops in the country and abroad.

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Paolo Cherchi Usai
Senior Curator, Motion Picture Department, George Eastman House. Director of the Selznick School of Film and Video Preservation, established in 1996. Co-founder of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, established in 1982. Adjunct Professor of Film, University of Rochester. Vice President of FIAF; member of the Board of Directors of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival.

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Ngo Hieu Chi
Occupation:
Senior Manager of Film-Video Preservation, Vietnam Film Institute
Education Background:
Bachelor of Hanoi University, Science Branch of Radio-Electronic Physics,
Doctor of Technical University Dresden-Germany, Science Branch of Photographic Physics.
Working Experiences:
From October 1967 to August 1978: Assistant (for two years) and then Lecturer at the Hanoi Technical University.
From August 1978 to August 1982: Post-student at the Technical University in Dresden - Germany, Doctor of Photographic Physics since June 1982.
From October 1982 to July 1989: Director of Filmlaboratory in Vietnam Army Film Studio.
From July 1989 up to now: Senior Manager of Film-Video Preservation at Vietnam Film Institute.

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Alfonso del Amo García
Was born in 1946. Works in the Filmoteca Española since 1978. Has published several works on conservation and classification of film materials. Is currently Head of the Research Section at the Filmoteca Española. Is member of the FIAF Technical Commission of Preservation since 1999. Was designated Head of this Commission at the Congress of Stockholm and Helsinki (June 2003).

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Ray Edmondson
Director of Archive Associates, a consultancy organisation based in Canberra, Australia. He is the former Deputy Director of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (1984-2001) and was inaugural President of SEAPAVAA (1992-2002). He is currently co-chair of the International Outreach Task Force of AMIA, and a member of the Advisory Board of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at George Eastman House. His writings include the UNESCO publications A Philosophy of Audiovisual Archiving (1998) and “Memory of the World”: General Guidelines (2002). He is a recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia (1987) and the AMIA Silver Light Award (2003).

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Nancy Goldman
Nancy Goldman is Head of the PFA Library & Film Study Center at the
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and is Head of the
FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission. She has worked in the
film archive field since 1980. She initiated and directs CineFiles,
PFA's film document image database; supervises the development of
Treasures from the Film Archives, FIAF's database of silent-era
films; and has taught seminars on film research methodologies and
film cataloguing at institutions such as UC Berkeley, San Jose State
University, and George Eastman House.

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Crispin Jewitt
Head of the Sound Archive at the British Library. He is responsible for holdings that include over a million discs, 180,000 reels of tape, the full range of early audio carriers, and for developing a growing range of access services. From 1999 to 2002 he was President of the International Association of Sound & Audiovisual Archives. He is currently Convener of the Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations.

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Mick Newnham
Acting Manager of the Research & Conservation Group (RCG) at ScreenSound Australia, the National Screen and Sound Archive.
RCG engages in original research on issues surrounding the long-term preservation of audio-visual media such as film, magnetic tape and optical discs.
Mick joined ScreenSound Australia in 1988, prior to this Mick worked for the University of NSW at the ADFA University College, Department of Chemistry.
During his career at ScreenSound Australia Mick has worked in the film repair area and was the technical manager of the motion picture duplication laboratory. Mick has also been active in providing technical training in audio visual media preservation throughout Australia and the South East Asia Pacific region.
Mick is the current Chair of the SEAPAVAA Technical Committee, a member of the FIAF Technical Commission, a member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Preservation Committee and a member of the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials (AICCM) PHOTON Photographic Special Interest Group.

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Dr. Susanne Ornager
Education:
Ph.D. Data Linguistic, Copenhagen Business School (1999). University degrees in Computer Science (1984) and in Theory of Science (1982). MLSc, Royal School of Library & Information Science (1977) and B.A. Archaeology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (1973).
Working activities:
Speaker at several international conferences in Asia, Pacific, Europe and United States on development and use of online information systems, image retrieval, user needs assessments, marketing etc.
Adviser for Communication and Information in Asia & the Pacific in UNESCO New Delhi, India. Professor, Head of Department for Knowledge Organisation, the Royal College of Librarianship, Copenhagen, Denmark. Chief Librarian, the Academic Library of the Royal College of Librarianship and Lecturer at the same university.
For three years employed as an Associate Expert in Information Services and Systems in UNESCO's regional office in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Consultant work for different international organizations. Working places Europe, Asia and Africa. Areas of responsibility: System analysis and design; Establishment of computerized information services; and Training courses in computer software packages.
Research:
Main areas of research: Image storage and retrieval; Subject analysis and indexing; Thesaurus construction and use; marketing and user interfaces.
Publications:
Journal articles and reports about: Digitising pictures; Image databases; Library automation; Network developments; and Thesaurus construction.
List of publications – examples:
Year: 2003
Title: Development of ICT for library and information professionals: a training package for developing countries in Asia and Pacific from UNESCO. In: Program: electronic library and information systems, vol. 37, no. 2, 2003, pp. 109-112.
Year: 2000
Title: Report on Unesco’s meeting of experts for preparation of a training package on library automation/ICT for developing countries. In: Program electronic library and information systems, vol. 34, no. 4, 2000, pp. 397-401.
Year: 1999
Title: Image archives in newspaper editorial offices. A service activity. In: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science: Digital Libraries: Interdisciplinary Concepts, Challenges and Opportunities, CoLIS 3, Dubrovnik, Croatia 23-26 May, 1999.
Year: 1998
Title: Images and concepts : Indexing and retrieval of documentary photos. In: Classification Research in the Electronic Information Era. Papers presented at the 49th FID Pre-Congress, Jaipur, 11-13 October, 1998, pp. 2-10.

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Brigitte Paulowitz
Born in Austria in 1968, I studied German Literature before entering the
profession of filmarchiving. I worked for a year at the German
Filminstitute in Frankfurt/Germany, participated in the L. Jeffrey Selznick
School for Film Preservation at the George Eastman House and then worked at Haghefilm Laboratories in Amsterdam before taking my current job at the Austrian Filmmuseum in Vienna.

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Paul Read
Born 1938, studied chemistry, biology and maths at University College, London. Joined Kodak Ltd research, later managing an international Kodak motion picture training school in the UK and the USA. Director of a London film lab in the 1970's. Independant consultant since 1979 with clients throughout the world, recently including Soho Images, Digital Film Lab, facility and laboratory companies, rights holders and collections, insurance companies and the courts, on technical management, digital and film post-production and restoration. Currently consultant to the EU FIRST project, member of the Technical Commission of FIAF, and an EBU film scanning group. Several books and numerous papers (including with Mark-Paul Meyer, Restoration of Motion Picture Film). Lectures on digital technology for modern film post-production, and archive film restoration, for archive and media masters degree courses.
ReadHF@aol.com

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Edwin van Huis
Born in 1958, he is the Director General of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, and has been since 1996. Before that he was Managing Director of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and worked for the Ministry of Culture in the Netherlands. He is a Master of Science in Business Administration from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and a Master of Science in Biology from the University of Florida (USA) and the University of Utrecht.

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