2008 November Training Symposium - Film Archives - London

*EDCINE/ARCHIVES SYMPOSIUM IN LONDON*

*ONLINE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN AT *http://www.ledoux.be/edcine/

Organised by the Cinémathèque Royale (Brussels) in collaboration with BFI Southbank, a symposium on digitisation and access for moving image archives is scheduled:

*in* *London** on November 24 and 25, 2008*.

The symposium is addressed to archivists and professionals responsible for the archiving, digitizing and distribution of archival materials, and it is part of a series of events planned within the framework of the EU-funded EDCine research project.

For further information on the EDCine project and *Registration* for the London event are available at http://www.ledoux.be/edcine/.

The 2-day program includes tutorials and presentations and will include the following topics covered in the programme:

• *The challenges*
  Archives and cinémathèques face the advent of Digital in preservation and exhibition

• *Film for digital cinema today*
  Cinema film becomes digital film, becomes digital cinema. Explaining cinema archives to film makers, and modern film making to archivists.
• *Digital formats for moving images and audio for access.*
  An archival perspective on of digital file formats and media, hardware and software current and medium term overview
• *Digital technology, DCI, SMPTE and Digital Cinema Packages,*
  The proposed digital cinema systems, and the need for simplified creation of digital projection formats.

• *D-Cinema projection of archive film at original frame rates*
• *Lower than 24fps projection - methods and equipment.
• *Archives requirements and the objectives for EDCine.*
  A two-need system: access and preservation. Maintaining a filmic image from film originals in the cinema, and fast, simple, easy access to lower qualities.
• *An overview of the EDCine Digital Archive System*
• An overview of EDCine System’s concept, architecture and selected file formats.
• *JPEG2000*
  An introduction to JPEG2000, its application in D-Cinema and its advantages in the context of digital preservation of moving image content (film, video)
• *MXF, JPEG2000 and EDCine.*
  An introduction to MXF from the perspective of its application in an archival workflow, and in EDCine/Archives proposed architecture
• *The film (and video) archive and its digital policy*
  Policies and strategies for digital preservation of film collections; EDCine proposed system in a real archival environment: workflows, metadata and areas needing further research.
• *Looking ahead another hundred years.*
  The basis of the EDCine System is JPEG200, MXF and SOAP. How will this take us into the future?
• *Open forum*

*Speakers will include:*

• *Nicola Mazzanti, EDCine, Cinematheque Royale de Belgique, Belgium*
• *Paul Read, EDCine, UK*
• *Arne Novak, Fraunhofer IIS, Erlangen, Germany*
• *Luis Nunes, MOG Solutions, Oporto, Portugal*
• *Paul Collard, Ascent Media, London*
• *Siegfried Foessel, Fraunhofer IIS, Erlangen, Germany*
• *Florian Scheich, Fraunhofer IIS, Erlangen, Germany*
• *Helle Absalonsen. Pepper Post, London, UK*

If you need further information about the content of the training, or about EDCine, you can contact:

Nicola Mazzanti, coordinator EDCine for the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique
Email : nicola.mazzanti.95@virgilio.it