The DAEFH Final Study examines the challenges and the opportunities that Film Heritage Institutions are facing in relation to collection, storage and long-term preservation of digital film material, digital restoration, digitization and integration in Europeana, and access to collections.
Based on the evaluation of the current situation, of the future trends and on a precise cost/benefit analysis, the Study proposes the Commission, the Member States and the Film Heritage Institutions a list of actions necessary to ensure a wider access to the cinema of the past, and the conservation of the cinema of the future.
The proposed actions include a precise calendar of legal/organizational/technical changes that are required to ensure that film archives will continue to perform their role in the digital era and their cost. The Study also proposes legal/organizational/technical changes that are required to ensure that film archives will continue to perform their role in the digital era and their cost.
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The written contributions which were sent in during the Public Consultation in the period between 17 July to 30 September 2011 can be downloaded here.
During the DAEFH Final workshop organised at the Royal Film Archive in Brussels on the 20th of September, the preliminary results of the Study were presented and discussed by large audience of cinema archivists, technologists and representatives of the European cinema industry.
Presentations of the workshop can be downloaded by clicking on each speech below.
Introduction
Mari Sol Pérez Guevara, Audiovisual and Media Policy, European Commission
Cinema is Digital
Paul Read, Film and Digital Technologist
Methodology and Structure of the Study
Juliane Schulze, Senior Partner peacefulfish
Collection & Acquisition
Nicola Mazzanti, Royal Belgium Film Archive expert
Digital Preservation, the challenges of preserving digital data
Jean-Charles Hourcade, Red Cat Technologies President
Digitisation & Access
Nicola Mazzanti, Royal Belgium Film Archive expert
