AudioVisual Heritage and the Digital Universe
Speakers and Presentations

New Web-Based Technology for Environmental Monitoring of Moving Image Collections	James M. Reilly Director, Image Permanence Institute Rochester Institute of Technology
Open Source Archival Repositories and Preservation Systems	Kevin Bradley Curator of Oral History and Folklore and Director of Sound Preservation at the National Library of Australia
HF-Bias Signal Pick-Up & Pre-processing for Wow & Flutter Correction of Analogue Magnetic Tape - Analyses and Limitations in Practical Application	Nadja Wallaszkovits Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna - Heinrich Pichler Audio Consultant, Vienna
Video Archiving: On the Way to the IT-World	Franz Pavuza and Julia Ahamer Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Quality Control in Digital Cinematography	John Galt Senior Vice President, Advanced Digital Imaging, Panavisio
The EDCINE Project for Archives: A System for Conservation and Access Based on MXF and JPEG 2000	Arne Nowak Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Germany Luís Nunes MOG Solutions, Portugal
Film Archives: Needs and Requirements in the D-Cinema Age	Nicola Mazzanti Consultant, Film Archiving and Preservation, FIAF Technical Commission Paul Read M.Sc., Ph.D., FBKSTS. Paul Read Associates (UK), Consultant Film and Digital Cinema Post-Production FIAF Technical Commission
Preserving Digital Public Television
Part One An Overview of MXF and the Search for the Video File Wrapper	Dave MacCarn WGBH-TV Thomas Edwards PBS Carl Fleischhauer Library of Congress
Part Two Designing the Repository	James Bullen, Unni Pillai and Brian Hoffman Digital Library Team, New York University
Images for the Future	Giovanna Fossati Curator, the Nederlands Filmmuseum
New Tools for Film Sound Restoration	Robert Heiber President, Chace Audio
Migration of 1.5 million Hours of Audio-Visual Material at the Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images	Martin Jacobson Head of Technology and Development, Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images
Spatial Resolutions: Restoring Motion Pictures in 4K	Daniel DeVincent Director of Digital Imaging, Cineric, Inc.
Tools for Audio Preservation: The Sound Directions Project	David Ackerman Lead Engineer for the Harvard College Library’s Audio Preservation Service Mike Casey Co-chair of the ARSC Technical Committee and Associate Director for Recording Services, Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University
Archiving and Delivery of Student Portfolios	Dirk Matthews Assistant Director, Portfolio Center Columbia College Chicago
Assessment and Prioritization: Recent and Current Research and Development Projects	Introduction by Chris Lacinak AudioVisual Preservation Solutions
Part I - Assessment PrestoSpace/CRCDG	Léon-Bavi Vilmont Project Manager, PrestoSpace “Media Condition Assessment” Work Package CRCDG – Centre de Recherches sur la Conservation des Documents Graphiques
Part I - Assessment The Preservation of Magnetic Tape Collections – One Perspective	Jean-Louis Bigourdan Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology
Part I - Assessment The Preservation of Magnetic Tape Collections – Another Perspective	Tanisha Jones New York University
Part II - Prioritization The Field Audio Collection Evaluation Tool	Michael Casey Indiana University
Special Collections Material Survey Instrument	Janet Gertz Columbia University
The Task Force on Selection for Digital Transfer	Dietrich Schueller Director, Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences IASA Technical Committee
Non-Contact Surface Metrology for Preservation and Sound Recovery from Mechanical Sound Recordings	P. J. Boltryk, M. Hill, J. W. McBride, A. Nascè School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK N. Bewley , W. Prentice British Library Sound Archive, London, UK
Archiving Meets Automatic Speech Recognition - Curse or Blessing?	Christophe Kummer NOA Audio Solutions
Digital Storage Options - a Transitional Perspective How Current Storage Technologies Can Facilitate Longevity and Access	Richard Hess Vignettes Media John Spencer President, BMS/Chace Jim Wheeler Media Forward
Using Audio Description Text for Shot-by-Shot Indexing of Films	James M Turner Université de Montréal Suzanne Mathieu Université de Montréal
Metamorphosis of a Digital System: A Retrospect to 7 Years of Growing Experience for Audio Digitizing	Hermann Lewetz Austrian Mediathek, Vienna
Automated Workflows in Mass Audio Archiving	Rob Poretti Sascom, Toronto
Save Our Audiovisual Memory (SAM)	Frédéric Dumas French National Audiovisual Institute
Archival Cylinder Box: An ARSC Design and Engineering Project	Bill Klinger Association for Recorded Sound Collections
The James A. Lindner Prize The James A. Lindner Prize shall be awarded to an individual, group of individuals or an organization for research, which by its originality, breadth and scope, is having or may potentially have a major impact on the technology of the preservation of moving images and/or recorded sound. Awarded jointly by SEAPAVAA, AMIA and IASA the prize will be funded with an endowment established by James A. Lindner, an internationally respected authority on preservation and migration of magnetic media. The award will consist of a cash prize and a certificate of recognition.