Report From the International Federation of Television Archives (FIAT/IFTA) World Conference

From the BBC Research Blog:

The International Federation of Television Archives, FIAT/IFTA, celebrated 40 years 1977-2017 at the recent Annual World Conference 2017 in Mexico City hosted by the Fonoteca Nacional (Mexican National Sound Archive), TVUNAM (Television Station of the National Autonomous University of Mexico ) and SPR (The Public Broadcasting System of the Mexican State). Despite the aftermath of one of the most devastating earthquakes in 32 years, television production and broadcast archivists from all over the world, demonstrated their solidarity with the hosts and the city to support, share knowledge, expertise and ideas from within our current digital media archive industry.
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There were sessions on “Media Asset Management and Metadata Enrichment”, “Managing Large Amounts of Data”, which focused on automation and data driven methodologies. RTVE Spanish public service broadcaster presented an interesting case study on their comparative analysis of cloud provider’s automated generation of descriptive metadata.
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There were sessions on “Media Asset Management and Metadata Enrichment”, “Managing Large Amounts of Data”, which focused on automation and data driven methodologies. RTVE Spanish public service broadcaster presented an interesting case study on their comparative analysis of cloud provider’s automated generation of descriptive metadata.

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See Also: Day 3 at FIAT/IFTA Mexico: an Invitation to Prepare the Future (via FIAT/IFTA)

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