No Time to Wait 6! Call for Proposals

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2	No Time to Wait 6: Call for Proposals
3	A 3 day conference on the intersection of open media, standardization, and audiovisual preservation.
4	Specify the names of the speakers associated with your proposal and provide a description. Also select if it is a "lightning talk" (short 10-15 minute specific presentation), "presentation" (25-40 minute), "panel" (a 45 minute mix of presentations and group discussion) or "roundtable" (a 25-35 minute group discussion amongst many panelists on a specific theme). If you'd prefer to propose or discuss an idea for the conference program without using this form, please feel welcome to contact us at info@mediaarea.net. The Call for Proposals is open until August 29th. The theme this year is "Transparency, Teaching & Trust" highlighting the need to work in a way that sensible to onlookers, advocate broadly for open solutions, and respond to the challenge to sustain and evolve workflows with consideration to the perspectives of all involved. Proposals may be for onsite (live at Sound and Vision) or online or a mix. For online presentations, we require a pre-recorded presentation. We will provide a live introduction and facilitate a live Q&A session between you and the audience after the presentation. Questions? Please, see and add to the FAQ section on the next tab or contact us at info@mediaarea.net.
5	Speaker(s)	Title	Description	Type	Onsite / Online
6	Paul Duchesne	FIAFcore	Present the ongoing work around the development of an ontology for mapping linked open data from film archives (https://github.com/FIAF/FIAFcore). Demonstrate mapping and querying existing archival data.	Lightning Talk	Onsite	-
7	Dave Rice	Deck Control!	Traditionally, the digitization of video tapes involves a one-way assembly line of a tape player doing its best to play a tape and a computer trying its best to record all the audio and video that it receives. This presents focused a projects where the computer isn't simply the passive recipient of the player's data but acts of the conductor of the entire process, including functions like repacking, re-reading, and verification and response during digitization.	Presentation	Online	-
8	John Daniel & Joanna White	Preserving off-air TV using open source tools	The BFI is designated as the UK’s National Television Archive and since 2016 we have recorded channels 24/7 using the automated Redux system developed by the BBC 15 years ago. Redux is now end of life and over the last year and a half a small team from the BFI National Archive have been developing a replacement solution which we are pleased to share at NTTW6. STORA (System for Television Off-air Recording and Archiving) could not have been created without amazing open source software that includes VLC, FFmpeg, MediaInfo, libdvbtee and CCExtractor. This presentation will give an overview of what's needed to supply the MPEG-TS streams, and introduce the 9000 lines of code making up 49 open source scripts used to schedule, record and preserve the off-air TV content and metadata.	Presentation	Onsite	-
9	Mattias Wadman	fq - jq for binary formats	Introduction to fq (https://github.com/wader/fq), a binary version of jq. fq is a tool for querying and working with binary formats, including many media formats like containers and codecs. Some history and background why it was created, quick intro to the jq language, what fq adds compared to jq and finish with a demo poking around and debugging some media file issues.	Presentation	Onsite	-
10	Stefania Oikonomou & Katerina Zourou	Open innovation initiatives for cultural heritage preservation during conflict	The outbreak of the war in Ukraine has brought a heavy toll to the country’s cultural heritage. Soon, citizen communities and cultural heritage organisations in Ukraine and abroad launched open, participatory initiatives to help protect and preserve cultural assets. The need to take immediate action to safeguard Ukrainian cultural heritage has empowered people to engage in a common cause while skills-sharing has become a solid practice among volunteers. This had (and still has) an impact on cultural heritage institutions’ resilience to embrace bottom-up action in a responsive and collaborative fashion. This unique situation is at the origin of our lightning talk, which can be seen as a critical reflection on participatory cultural heritage. The presentation is grounded around 4 key themes, which will be discussed in light of concrete examples: technology and the diaspora; forms of activism; immediacy and action, and the role of culture to bridge dichotomies. Further on, we outline the (openly accessible) results of an analysis we conducted on participatory, bottom-up open innovation practices that we have carried out from March to May 2022. This lightning talk brings to the forth critical views stemming from the EU-funded project eCHOIng (Recovery of cultural heritage through higher-education driven open innovation, https://echoing.eu/ ).	Lightning Talk	Online	-
11	Radoslav Markov	Direct video tape capture - new way for video capture	We review the ways for capturing videotape direct from videohead and further fully digital signal processing and what benefits this bring in digitization process	Presentation	Onsite	-	Affiliation Bulgarian academy of science
12	Evanthia Samaras	Findings from a doctoral research project to investigate film and TV visual effects records and archiving practices	Following from a NTTW lightening talk in 2018, this presentation will provide the outcomes of my doctoral research project to document and explore records and archiving practices in the international film and TV visual effects industry. I will present how visual effects companies are currently managing their records, and the main challenges affecting the industry and collecting institutions from being able to preserve VFX records. I will also outline my recommendations to improve achiving practices to help ensure this important part of our media culture and history is preserved.	Presentation	Online	-
13	Alexandru Stan	Take a CUHE - enabling multi-perspective exploration of digital collections	Isights from the CUHE project, which aims to develop and demonstrate a web-based application based on AI recommendations that will allow cultural heritage professionals (e.g. museum curators, archivists) as well as researchers to explore existing media and cultural heritage digital collections in a more holistic way and allow them to more easily curate new galleries or create digital stories and exhibitions which can showcase and share the new insights gained. The project targets a key infrastructure for researchers and heritage professionals: Europeana.	Lightning Talk	Onsite	-
14	Dr Jimi Jones and Karin Hodgin Jones	This Is How We Do It: An Archival Sustainability Case Study At The University Of Illinois	What happens to the devices that host digital objects – hard drives, monitors, computer peripherals, storage media – when it’s time to upgrade our digital preservation environments and workflows? Each step of the production and stewardship of digital objects requires devices and software that have relatively short lifecycles and multiple drivers toward ever faster obsolescence. These devices flow out of our digital repositories and contribute to the fastest growing waste stream of the 21st century, “electronic waste” or e-waste. This panel will feature professionals from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, who will discuss how the digital asset management practices at the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL), a high-throughput video production unit, help to minimize its "e-waste footprint." CITL employs a system called the Curricular Asset Warehouse (CAW), which is a suite of software that serves as the backbone of Instructional Media Resources (IMR) production and archival needs. CAW uses several open-source software tools to be an all-in-one production, cataloging, preservation and discovery tool. A key sustainability of CAW is its ability to scan collections and extract extraneous files and transcode video files to smaller sizes. Karin Hodgin Jones will talk about CAW as a case study in sustainable management of large volumes of digital video and image content production and preservation, within an institutional purchasing and waste management paradigm with foresight into the drivers of device obsolescence to mitigate future costs and redundancies. Jimi Jones will talk about how CAW's role in the digitization and preservation workflows at CITL are an effective strategy for minimizing CITL's digital storage needs and, by extension, the amount of electronic waste produced by the department. Jimi will show participants how the CAW software works during the session. Jimi will also give an update about his forthcoming book about the standardization of FFV1, JPEG2000, Matroska and MXF. Participants will leave this session with real-world solutions that they can implement in their institutions.	Presentation	Online	-
15	Michael Richardson and CELLAR WG	Interim Meeting for IETF CELLAR WG	The IETF CELLAR WG datatracker.ietf.org/wg/cellar has been working for a few years to bring the EBML and Matroska video formats to IETF Proposed Standard RFC. This occurs in 1hour virtual interim meetings online. Except that October's meeting will be at NoTimeToWait, live and in-person. This will be a working session with audience participation not only encouraged, but required. We will be going through our normal meeting. Learn a bit how the IETF sausage is made.	Panel	Mixed	-
16	Andrew Weaver	CUE it up! An effective solution for mass CD-DA migration	This talk will provide an exploration of the University of Washington Libraries’ system for the mass preservation migration of CD-DA discs. As is often the case in archival audiovisual workflows, we found that existing popular software focused more towards a commercial market did not meet our requirements for consistency, transparency and output formats. Accordingly we made the decision to implement our own tools and workflow inspired by the open-tool IROMLAB and built on top of open-source audio ripping software. With the goal of helping other organizations and individuals pursuing similar reformatting projects, this presentation will give an overview of the issues and shortcoming encountered while testing existing software options, give a walkthrough of our solutions and workflow and provide information about how a similar open-source based workflow could be implemented.	Lightning Talk	Online	-
17	Kieran O'Leary	Irish language fadas, diacritics, Unicode	Inspired by the work of Elvia Arroyo Ramirez (https://medium.com/on-archivy/invisible-defaults-and-perceived-limitations-processing-the-juan-gelman-files-4187fdd36759) and the work of Niamh Murphy's (IFI) MLIS thesis, this talk will look at some Irish-specific instances of systems not liking Irish language characters, how we must avoid any urges to treat them as 'illegal' characters that must be eliminated, and instead find methods of figuring out what is actually the issue and how to fix it and have more compatible characters. The talk will look at some use cases that show how sometimes it can be hard to figure out what is the actual issue, is it how the characters are stored or how they're interpreted and displayed, and what tools can be used to learn more.	Lightning Talk	Onsite	-
18	Bruna Ribeiro Nunes (PhD candidate at TUDelft)	Speaking of Archives. The Case of António Menéres’ photo archive: an interactive and visual approach to sharing its contents and meanings with the community	In 1955, António Menéres participated in the Survey on Portuguese Regional Architecture (‘Inquérito à Arquitectura Regional Portuguesa’, 1955-1961). Experiencing a close contact with the ‘vernacular’ became such a significant part of his existence, that he carried on, photographing vernacular architectural heritage, throughout his life. After six decades of work, in 2018 a classification process was started, making use of Oral History as the key to unlock meanings and cross references. Throughout the process, it became evident that the idea of performing rigorous archival classifications and making archives ‘open’, alone, was not enough regarding exploring their full potential. So, a question remained on how archival organizations could possibly maximize the potentialities of these documental value-filled archival collections, and make them more communicative and engaged with the potentially interested communities. In this presentation, we will be discussing the approach taken in the case of António Menéres and his photo archive, in bridging the gap between archival materials’ meanings recollection and community engagement, through the transposition of decriptive data into open, georeferenced, and dynamic visualisations.	Presentation	Mixed	-
19	Lisa Parolo (PhD) & Vittoria Gelati (PhD candidate) & Memory Slash Vision Studios lisa.parolo@gmail.com, vittoria.gelati@prom.abk-stuttgart.de, info@memoryslashvision.com	Managing digital resources. A tool for cataloguing, converting, archiving and re-using.	The presentation regards a new and functional database for audiovisual archives, Art.c.Hive, not only a tool for cataloguing but also for converting, archiving (cold, warm hot) and re-using digital resources according to predefined standards. Art.c.Hive was developed for Careof Video Archive (Milan), which stores more than 8,000 analogue and digital audiovisual items, but it is extendible to any multimedia resource, allowing the intercommunication between them. Starting from different international regulations and guidelines, the entire database structure has been developed relational, non hierarchical and fully open source. The structure is flexible and expandable, it keeps track of both analogue and digital media; it is able to trace the preservation history - digitization and migration - of the media content and to set relations between different contents, media and documents. Finally, it contains tools coming from MediaInfo for the video automated metadata extractions. The database has been built by DB developers and video preservers (Memory Slash Vision Studios) and it will be soon available online. Careof / https://www.careof.org Art.c.Hive / https://artchive.cloud	Presentation	Online	-
20	Jacobo Castellanos, Technology Threats and Opportunities Associate at WITNESS ( jacobo@witness.org )	Leveriging Trust by Tracking the Provenance of Digital Media with Open Standards	The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) has published version 1.0 of their open standards for tracking the source and history (provenance) of digital media across its lifecycle, from the point of creation to when it is consumed and shared. WITNESS has been part of these efforts to promote a human rights framework, with particular attention to privacy and accessibility concerns. In this presentation, we will offer an overview of how the C2PA works, how it may serve as a tool against mis/disinformation, and how it may help fortify truth and leverage trust. We will also present the Harms, Misuse and Abuse Assessment to highlight areas that need to be addressed before (or if) this begins to be widely adopted into the tools and services used by millions worldwide. At WITNESS we are interested in getting feedback from the NTTW community on the design of the open standards and how they could be updated to reflect the needs and aspirations of this community.	Presentation	Mixed	-	Potentially onsite - TBD
21	Kiki Lennaerts	Anticipating Obsolescence: Documentation as a strategy to preserve immersive media	A study originating from Tate Modern and Sound & Vision's 'Preserving Immersive Media Knowledge Base' resulted in a synthesis of existing documentation strategies, divided into main characteristics, documentation phase and institutional aim. By taking these variables into account a holistic documentation strategy can be defined to be able to capture an immersive artwork to the best of the abilities. In doing so, documentation is regarded as an important strategy for preserving immersive content, providing future conservators with holistic documentation to make weighed decisions about an artwork.	Lightning Talk	Onsite	-
22	Jérôme Martinez & secret presenter	Leaving a proprietary format is never easy, a story		Presentation	Mixed	-
23	Maarten Zeinstra (IP Squared) & Maarten Brinkerink (Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision)	Proof of Provenance: How to know where a web publication comes from?	The media landscape is suffering from declining trust in news by mainstream media. In addition to presenting news, the broadcasters seem to have been given an additional task to combat and prevent misinformation. Proof of Provenance aims to provide a tool to give more confidence to broadcasters' publications. Maarten Zeinstra & Maarten Brinkerink give an interactive presentation about the project, demonstrate its first implementation (an open source browser plugin that validates proof of provenance for elements of a web publication) and talk about a future use case for web archiving.	Presentation	Onsite	-	We are NOT available on Wednesday. Our presentation will be interactive.
24	Tamara van Zwol (Dutch Digital Heritage Network)	Preservation Watch: monitoring technological trends in a network of expertise	Preservation Watch is a vital function when it comes to monitoring internal and external developments that can benefit or risk digital objects. However, given the abundance of developments and risks, it is hard for organizations to keep up. As a solution, the Dutch Digital Heritage Network started work on a supra-organizational Preservation Watch function led by a group of experts from the field. The emphasis is on topics that are, judging from signals from the network, considered to be the most urgent: file formats and preservation tools, metadata models/schemes/standards and storage techniques.	Presentation	Onsite	-	I am not available on friday
25	Marin Rappard \|\| Remco van Veenendaal (Nationaal Archief)	Introducing a Virtual Research Environment with digital preservation tools	The Dutch Digital Heritage Network and the Open Preservation Foundation developed a Virtual Research Environment with six digital preservation tools. The VRE is meant for testing these tools without having to install them separately. The VRE is maintained by Nationaal Archief in cooperation with the Open Preservation Foundation.	Lightning Talk	Mixed	-	I am not available on friday
26	Kate Murray, Charles Hosale / FADGI	Accessibility features for digital audiovisual collections content	FADGI (US Federal Agenices Digital Guidelines Initiative) is developing resources and guidelines for accessibility features for audiovisual collections content. These features, including caption, subtitles, transcription, audio description and more, enable screen readers and provide support for users who are blind, have low vision or cannot see the video adequately, who are deaf or hard of hearing, who prefer to read transcripts and subtitles, who prefer to communicate in sign language. FADGI has published "Definitions for Key Accessibility Features for Digital Audiovisual Collections Content" (https://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/guidelines/accessibilty_AV_collections.html) which provides technical information, definitions and resources for accessibility features. FADGI will also publish the results of a survey of FADGI institutional members to asses if/how they are complying with rules and guidelines set out by the US Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and US Access Board Section 508.	Presentation	Onsite	-	Likely onsite but I won't know about confirmed funding until after Oct 1. Also, I can switch this to a lightning talk if needed.
27	Kate Murray / FADGI	FADGI Support for FFV1 in MXF	ù	Lightning Talk	Onsite	-	Likely onsite but I won't know about confirmed funding until after Oct 1. Also, I can switch this to a lightning talk if needed.
28	Killian Downing & Joseph Murphy	Digitising the Charles J. Haughey AV Collection at Dublin City University Library, Ireland.	This lightning talk will share lessons learnt about digitising the Charles J. Haughey AV Collection at Dublin City University Library with the expertise of Joe Murphy of Specialist AV. It will give an overview of the workflow, output, and quality control with appreciation to the guidance of Kieran O'Leary of the National Library of Ireland.	Lightning Talk	Mixed	-	Tbc
29	Marjolein Steeman (Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision)	preferred file formats at Sound&Vision	Used to preserve only a limited set of fileformats, Sound&Vision has had to open up for new fileformats, to keep up with the needs of the community as well as the commitment of the institute as pronounced in its missionstatement.	Presentation	Onsite	-
30	Ethan Gates (Yale University Library)	Challenges building an emulation service for born-digital collections	Since 2018, the EaaSI (Emulation-as-a-Service Infrastructure) grant-funded program of work, hosted by Yale, has been developing an open-source server stack and associated service model to provide emulation as an assessment, curatorial, and access tool for born-digital collections (including complex, software-based A/V works). Following a brief introduction and summary of the program's goals and status, I will present high-level challenges the team has encountered trying to move emulation from "nice-to-have" or "seems promising" to a critical, integrated piece of archival workflows, wrapping with a call to action for NTTW's unique community of open source developers and media specialists.	Lightning Talk	Online	-
31	Jérôme Martinez	State of RAWcooked	Past, present and future of RAWcooked	Lightning Talk	Onsite	-
32	Jérôme Martinez	Future of MediaConch		Lightning Talk	Online	-
33	Paul Duchesne	DIY LOD	Workshop on converting archival data to Linked Open Data, querying, analysis and federation with other open data sources.	Workshop (Oct 26th)	Onsite	-
34	Team NTTW	Roundtable Discussion #1		Roundtable	Onsite
35	Team NTTW	Roundtable Discussion #2		Roundtable	Onsite
36	Team NTTW	Roundtable Discussion #3		Roundtable	Onsite
37	Team NTTW	Roundtable Discussion #4		Roundtable	Onsite
38	Team NTTW	Glitch Screening	A screening of video errors, digitization artifacts, interoperability issues and examples of the chaotic and confusing end of digital video.	Screening	Onsite
39	Dave Rice	How Does NTTW Work?	A review of the organizational and financial structure of NTTW.	Lightning Talk	Onsite
40	Alessandra Luciano	Closing Event and Next Steps		Lightning Talk	Onsite
41	Claire Fox	Software configuration and documentation workflows at Yale University Library	The Yale node of the EaaSI (Emulation-as-a-Service Infrastructure) program of work is steadily creating a set of emulated computing environments that include pre-installed instances of legacy software programs. The workflow to install and document these environments is largely conducted by students at Yale University across disciplines and at the graduate and undergraduate level. As the supervisor of the student workers, I will speak to managing a workflow that handles software from the 1980s-2010s (including audiovisual software programs) that aims to be accessible to any student worker, regardless of technical experience.	Lightning Talk	Online
42	Ed de Heer, Bob Coret, Roosmarijn de Groot (Nationaal Archief, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Beeld & Geluid)	Data Set Registry of the Dutch Digital Heritage Network	Why and how to add a dataset to data registries of the Dutch Digital Heritage Network and CLARIAH	Presentation
43	Bob Coret, Sjors de Valk, Willem Melder (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Beeld & Geluid)	Increasing Findability of (Audiovisual) Heritage Collections on the Web with the Term Network	Showcase of the Term Network of the Dutch Digital Heritage Network with a special focus on the possibilities of datasets containing audiovisual data	Presentation
44	Josef Vítovec	Ingesting, preservation and access of digital archival packages using Archivematica and AtoM	In 2020 Národní filmový archiv in Prague started a project 'Audiovisual work outside the context of cinema: documentation, archiving and access', that aims to develop a long-term sustainable strategy for the preservation and access to the art of the moving image. The lightning talk will consist of a description of the process of ingesting, preservation and access of digital archival packages using the open-source standards-based applications Archivematica and AtoM.	Lightning Talk	Onsite
45	Monique in het Veld	Open is(n't) enough? Metadata for music	The opening up, and therefore making them freely available, of data is not the only solution to share information about a collection, there’s more to it. What are you exactly making available? And what is needed to be able to use these available data well? In this lightning talk we will elaborate on these matters with the help of activities within Podiumkunst.net.	Lightning Talk	Onsite		Only available on Friday
46	Fred Saunderson, Annabelle Shaw, Ariadna Matas (Europena copyright community)	Why (and how) we should all care about rights metadata	Sharing accurate rights information, often as part of a digital object's metadata, is an essential part of facilitating reuse. For a cultural heritage institution to be able to share this data, adequate processes need to be in place for its accurate collection and management, which requires the involvement beyond 'legal staff'. During this session, members of the Europeana copyright community steering group will explain why rights information is important, why it should be shared, the various types of information that should or can be collected, and how processes can be managed.	Presentation	Online
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