FIAT/IFTA Seminar - Metadata as the Cornerstone of Digital Archiving

The sixth in the seminar series ‘Changing sceneries, Changing roles’ will be held at The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, The Netherlands, from 16-17th of May 2013.
 
Since 1997, the Media Management Commission organizes a series of seminars for AV-documentalists, archive policy-advisors, middle management and other AV-archive staff under the series title  "Changing Sceneries, Changing Roles." The main theme of these seminars is always: the consequences of the technological developments for the work of AV-archive staff. The theme for 2013 will be: "Metadata as the Cornerstone of Digital Archiving."
The two days of the seminar will be divided into four sessions that will each consist of a keynote address, two case studies/concrete projects and panel discussions. 
 
The four types of metadata developments that will be addressed in the four sessions are:
  1. Automatically generated metadata;
  2. Linked (meta)data;
  3. Preservation metadata;
  4. User-generated metadata.
Details for the programme can be found on the website. Four experts from the field will give keynote addresses:
  • Lora Aroyo (Associate professor Intelligent Information Systems, Web and Media Department of Computer Science at the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands) on user generated metadata;
  • Rebecca Guenther (Premis Editorial Committee / Library of Congress) on preservation metadata;
  • Cees Snoek (Computer scientist at the University of Amsterdam, who leads a research team working on the development of a smart search engine for digital video: the Media Mill Semantic Video Search Engine) on automatically generated metadata;
  • Seth van Hooland, who holds the chair at the Digital Information and Communication Science Department of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

If you have any questions please contact mmc2013@beeldengeluid.nl or check the conference website at http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/MMCSeminar2013 
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