World heritage in danger : audiovisual memory fades away in silence

HOOG, Emmanuel. "World heritage in danger : audiovisual memory fades away in silence". In FIAT/IFTA. FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2004 : Safeguarding our audiovisual heritage, a world challenge, 15th-19th October 2004, Paris [Online]. FIAT/IFTA, 2004 [Accessed February 2nd 2007]. Available at <http://www.fiatifta.org/conferences/conferences/past/paris_2004/16_oct_hoog_eng.html>

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The Annual Conference of the International Federation of Television Archives, held in Paris from October 15th to 19th, will be the largest gathering of audiovisual memory managers on the planet. The challenge: safeguarding the images and sounds that testify - at least as much as the written word - of our era. 80% of the world's archives are endangered. This holds true for rich countries like the United States, whose leaders, unaware, refuse to take interest in the preservation of their audiovisual heritage, not deemed financially viable. This is also the case in developing countries, due to the cost of these operations. Can we stand by and allow the audiovisual heritage of the twentieth century to fade away forever?
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Listing what we risk losing is impossible. Not all the regions of the world are struck with the same intensity. In addition to the digital divide often described , there is also the rupture of memory. Main regions at risk: South America, Africa, the Near East and South-East Asia. Many countries such as the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Germany and Sweden are implementing safeguarding programmes . Conversely, the poor countries of the South are losing entire chapters of their audiovisual archives . Cultural diversity is in danger. For although audiovisual heritage is above all an indispensable crucible, a guarantee of identities and history, it is also the mirror of our societies, of our daily life, our passions and our emotions...

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TITLE : World heritage in danger : audiovisual memory fades away in silence

CREATOR : HOOG, Emmanuel

SUBJECT : audiovisual heritage, deterioration, digitization, International Federation of Audiovisual Archives (FIAT/IFTA)

DESCRIPTION : Defines what threaten our audiovisual heritage, shows the stakes of digitization and presents the actions conducted in the world to stop this threat.

PUBLISHER : International Federation of Television Archives (FIAT/IFTA)

CONTRIBUTOR :

DATE : 2005

TYPE : Text (Position paper)

FORMAT : html

IDENTIFIER : http://www.fiatifta.org/conferences/conferences/past/paris_2004/16_oct_hoog_eng.html

SOURCE : FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2004 : Safeguarding our audiovisual heritage, a world challenge

LANGUAGE : En

RELATION : is Version of "Une mémoire audiovisuelle qui s'estompe en silence" (French)

COVERAGE : International

RIGHTS : © FIAT/IFTA