The cultural challenge to globalisation : what is at stake for television archives?

HOOG, Emmanuel. "The cultural challenge to globalisation : what is at stake for television archives?". In FIAT/IFTA. Second Asian seminar on audiovisual archives, Building up a national audiovisual memory : a day after day challenge, 9th May 2005, Kuala Lumpur [Online]. FIAT/IFTA, 2005 [Accessed April 5th 2007]. Available at <http://www.fiatifta.org/aboutfiat/news/old/2005/hoog_may_2005.html>

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[...]Globalisation can be a good thing for archives.

What strikes me today is that all the archives in the world, in Malaysia or Algeria, just as in France or the United States, are faced with the same technological developments and the same issues: preservation, selection, access and the advent of digital technology, which has forced us to stop and think again, in terms of both technology and archive management. Migration is the only way. What technological choices should we make? How should we organise the migration of archived programmes? How should we reorganise archive collection, storage and access procedures? This is what we are going to address in this afternoon's workshop dedicated to digital archiving.

Being faced with the same questions means being able to share knowledge and good practices and work together to find the solutions. Our salvation lies in cooperation, international cooperation. We must not remain isolated. As an example, I would like to recommend you to join the International Federation of Television Archives (FIAT/IFTA), the top professional organisation in the world of television archives. IFTA brings together the world's biggest archive centres (such as BBC, CBS, CNN, CCTV, Doordarshan, France Télévisions, …) and top experts, and they are all determined to advance the cause of archives. It was IFTA, for example, that last October launched an Appeal to save the world's audiovisual heritage, an appeal that has already collected some 8,000 signatures in 87 countries and that will be officially presented to the United Nations next September. During the Asia Media Summit, there is a stand where you can sign the Call for the preservation of the world broadcast heritage...

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TITLE: The cultural challenge to globalisation : what is at stake for television archives?

CREATOR: HOOG, Emmanuel

SUBJECT: Cultural diversity, culture, digitization, FIAT/IFTA, Globalisation, radio archives, television archives

DESCRIPTION: Explains why broadcast archives have a part to play in the debate about globalisation. Presents the dangers which threaten these archives and reveals how and why globalisation is an advantage for audiovisual archives.

PUBLISHER: FIAT/IFTA

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DATE: 2005-05-09

TYPE: text (position paper)

FORMAT: html

IDENTIFIER: http://www.fiatifta.org/aboutfiat/news/old/2005/hoog_may_2005.html
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LANGUAGE: En

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COVERAGE: International

RIGHTS: © FIAT/IFTA