Digital Archives 2022
Digital Archives, Photo: © Manuela Clemens
The summer school "Digital Archives. Data Literacy and Presentation Strategies in Audiovisual Archives" is a 5-day, practice-oriented course aimed at people working in audiovisual archives as well as at everyone else who is interested in enhancing their knowledge about digital environments and processes related to digital archives.
Date: 5-9 September 2022 | Language: English |
Number of participants: 20-25 | Location: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF / Bundesarchiv Lichterfelde |
Costs: 1030.00 EUR Students receive a discount of 10% percent of the regular price. | Early Bird before 30 April 2022: 930.00 EUR |
Typically, film archives are not archives in the traditional sense, but rather hybrid institutions that, due to their history and the complexity of film rights, often face major challenges when it comes to cataloguing, metadata management, transparency, and accessibility.
The ongoing process of digitalization presents film archives with the necessity of changing their workflows, strategies, and policies and of providing their staff with additional training. In order to support people and institutions with more knowledge, we decided to establish the "Digital Archives" Summer School in collaboration with Bundesarchiv and Deutsche Kinemathek as well as with support from the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). The second edition focuses on the subject of digital curation.
The next Summer School Digital Archives is expected to take place in 2024.
Instructors (Day 1 & 2)
Elżbieta Wysocka
Elżbieta Wysocka currently works as a restorer at Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin. Previously she was working at the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute in Warsaw, Poland. There she has been responsible for digitisation projects and overseeing the Polish National Film Archive's digital collection (since 2010) and supervision of digitization and restoration of the film collection (since 2017). She also guided the development of the Media Asset Management at FINA and made digital workflow and their documentation efficient and interconnected with various departments. She accomplished her doctoral thesis on film and new media art restoration (2012). Passionate about bringing old media back to the audience.
Dr. Sarah Higgins
Dr. Sarah Higgins is a lecturer at Aberystwyth University Department of Information Studies, where she teaches across all programmes, and is Director of the MSc in Digital Information and Media Management. Her research, which won a Certificate of Distinction at the Digital Preservation Awards 2018, focuses on the lifecycle management of digital materials by archives services, libraries and other information professionals. She is currently working on an AHRC funded project to scope needs for a Trusted Digital Repository for Wales, and the Welsh Government Tyfu Dyfi a pilot project supporting and developing agroecology in the UNESCO Dyfi Biosphere Reserve.
Kieran O’Leary
Kieran O’Leary is the Digital Preservation Manager with the National Library of Ireland, currently working as part of a team that is developing workflows for ingesting born-digital objects, such as literary and photographic archives. He spent over seven years working in the IFI Irish Film Archive, initially working on 16mm and 35mm film, but eventually developing workflows and software for ingesting digitised and born digital material, such as Digital Cinema objects, broadcast material, and original camera material. He is interested in the full lifecycle of digital objects, with a particular interest in the implementation of open source tools, providing training, technical and preservation metadata, and writing customised scripts to perform a variety of ingest and pre-ingest preservation actions.
Etienne Marchand
Graduated from EICAR Paris in 2008 after a sound engineer training, Etienne Marchand has since been working on a great variety of archive documents - audio, video and film - and on every aspect of the technical workflows: assessment, physical restoration and cleaning; digitisation using manual and automatic processes; digital restoration and color grading; quality control; conversions and transcoding; media delivery; digital archiving.
In 2015, Etienne joined INA, the curator of French public TV and radio archives, as a multimedia engineer and his current role includes working on strategies for handling digital media intake.
Instructors (Day 2 & 3)
Micky Lindlar
Micky Lindlar studied English, computer science and library and information science. Since 2009, Lindlar has been working in digital preservation, since 2012 at TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology. Active in nestor, the Open Preservation Foundation, the PREMIS Editorial Committee and several other national and international digital preservation networks, Lindlar was awarded the dpc Fellowship in 2020 in recognition of a significant and outstanding contribution to the preservation of digital heritage.
Barbara K. Fischer
The cultural manager Barbara K. Fischer works on the digital transformation of the GLAM sector. At Wikimedia Deutschland, she founded the hackathon Coding Da Vinci, among other things. As a member of the EUROPEANA Networkassociation, she is committed to capacity building and data literacy in the cultural heritage sector. She is involved in the opening of the Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) at the Arbeitsstelle für Standardisierung an der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek and initiated the WikiLibrary Manifest. Her vision is to strengthen the Semantic Web through the application of standardised standards data in metadata of different domains. (March 2022)
Dr. Adelheid Heftberger
Dr. Adelheid Heftberger is deputy head of the Film Archive in the Bundesarchiv in Berlin. In the past, she worked as a researcher, curator, and archivist at Brandenburg Center für Media Studies in Potsdam and at the Austrian Filmmuseum in Vienna. She holds a PhD in Slavic Studies and obtained an Master degree in Comparative Literature from the universities of Innsbruck and Vienna. In 2016, she completed her M.A. of Library and Information Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is head of the FIAF Cataloguing & Documentation Commission and actively supports the Open Science movement.
Paul Duchesne
Paul Duchesne is a software engineer with the Open Science Lab at the Technische Informationsbibliothek in Hannover, specialising in Wikibase and Linked Open Data for cultural data. He is an active member of the FIAF Linked Open Data Task Force, including contributing heavily to the forthcoming FIAFcore ontology for film archives.
Instructors (Day 3 & 4)
Oliver Hanley
Oliver Hanley is a film preservationist, curator and researcher. Since graduating from the University of Amsterdam's Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image professional M.A. programme in 2008, he has worked at the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin (2008-2011), the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna (2011-2016) and, most recently, the Film Heritage programme at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam (2016-2021). He is a member of FIAF's Programming and Access to Collections Commission (PACC) and curator of the Bonn International Silent Film Festival together with Eva Hielscher.
Dr. Claudy Op Den Kamp
Dr. Claudy Op den Kamp is Principal Academic in Film, and faculty member at the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management. During the 2022 Spring semester, she is a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.
She holds a PhD (Art & Media) from the University of Plymouth on the relationship between copyright ownership, access to archival film, and film historiography. She is a graduate of the University of Amsterdam (Film & Television Studies) and the University of East Anglia (Film Archiving). She has worked as Haghefilm Conservation’s Account Manager; as a Film Restoration Project Leader at the Nederlands Filmmuseum, and as a senior research assistant in the DIASTOR project at the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich.
Jürgen Keiper
Jürgen Keiper works for Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen, where he is responsible (among other things) for the DFFB Archive website, the "Wir waren so frei" online archive as well as the conceptual and technological implementation of the RomArchive storytelling platform. He also focuses on research in the field of standardization and gives lectures on the subject of storytelling. Together with Chris Wahl, he hosts the blog Memento Movie.
(Bild: Jürgen Keiper)
Prof. Dr. Giovanna Fossati
Prof. Dr. Giovanna Fossati is the Chief Curator of Eye Filmmuseum and Professor of Film Heritage and Digital Film Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She recently led the research project The Sensory Moving Image Archive. Boosting Creative Reuse for Artistic Practice and Research and she is currently participating in the project Narratives from the long tail. Transforming access to audiovisual archives. She is the author of From Grain to Pixel (2009 and 2018 – revised edition), co-author of Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema (2015) and Exposing the Film Apparatus (2016), and co-editor of The Colour Fantastic (2018) and the special issue of The Moving Image journal on “Activating the Archive” (2021).
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The Summer School "Digital Archives" is organised by the Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF (Filmuni Summer School) in cooperation with the Bundesarchiv and the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin and with the support of the FIAF Cataloguing & Documentation Commission. It was conceived by Dr. Adelheid Heftberger, Jürgen Keiper and Prof. Dr. Chris Wahl.