Second
Century Forum
How
can Internet Help Archives to Address the Challenges of the Second Century
of Cinema
Session
chair: David Francis
Co-chairs: Paolo Cherchi Usai, Pat Loughney
In
previous 2nd Century Forum’s we have talked a lot about digital
preservation. There is another aspect of the digital revolution that
is easier to understand and can offer significant help to film archivists
on a day to day basis now - the World Wide Web.
Everyone
has their favorite sites. In this years Forum we would like to hear
about your’s and understand why you consider it so valuable. Please
bring the web address so that we can put it up on the screen while you
are making your brief remarks. When you arrive in Ljubljana let either
Paolo Cherchi Usai, Pat Loughney or David Francis know which site you
have chosen to talk about.
We
would like to illustrate as wide a range of sites as possible so we
are interested in those that offer technical advice, filmographic information,
cataloging methodology, etc. We would prefer them to be in English or
French but if there are sites in other language that have universal
value, we want to include those as well. In addition we would like you
to tell us a bit about your own archive’s web site if you feel
that it contains information that would be valuable to the film archive
community as a whole. There will also be brief presentations on FIAF’s
web site and those of UNESCO, AMIA, SEAPAAVA etc.
This
years Forum is an appetizer for something more elaborate that we are
preparing for next year.. Then we are going to take a frank view of
all the initiatives that FIAF has championed over the years to see how
useful they have been to Members. We will consider whether they are
still relevant in today’s world , whether they need to be developed
further or whether they should be shelved and replaced by new projects.
You are getting advance warning because the success of this session
will depend on your informed participation.