IASA Conference 1999: Programme

AGAVA

IASA Annual Conference 1999
Vienna, 18 - 22 September 1999

A Century of Sound Archiving

Organised by AGAVA -
Arbeitsgemeinschaft audiovisueller Archive Österreichs

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Conference Programme

All meetings take place - unless otherwise indicated -
at the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Sonnenfelsgasse 19
(Domus universitatis)

Registration desk: 18 Sept. 10.00-17.45, 19-22 Sept. till end of sessions

Friday 17 September 1999
9.00 – 10.45	Executive Board meeting (Österr. Phonothek, 1060 Wien, Gumpendorferstraße 95, 2^nd floor). Members only!
coffee break
11.15 – 12.45	Executive Board meeting (Österr. Phonothek). Members only!
lunch
14.15 – 15.45	Executive Board meeting (Österr. Phonothek). Members only!
coffee break
16.15 – 17.45	Executive Board meeting (Österr. Phonothek). Members only!

Saturday 18 September 1999
9.00 – 10.45	Executive Board meeting (Österr. Phonothek) Members only!	Technical Committee. Working session Members and invited guests only!
coffee break
11.15 – 12.45	Executive Board meeting (Österr. Phonothek) Members only!	Technical Committee. Working session Members and invited guests only!
lunch
14.15 – 15.45	Discography Committee. Working session (Saal 2, Ground floor)	Technical Committee. Working session Members and invited guests only!
coffee break
16.15 – 17.45	Cataloguing and Documentation Committee. Working session

18.00	Welcome drink

Sunday 19 September 1999
9.00 – 9.45	Newcomer session

10.00 – 10.45	Opening session. Keynote address - Rolf Schuursma
coffee break
11.15 – 12.45	General assembly I
lunch
14.15 – 15.45	Radio Sound Archives Committee. Working session	National Archives Committee. Working session (Saal 2, Ground floor)
coffee break
16.00 – 18.00	DISCA. Project meeting

19.30	Reception by the Bürgermeister of the City of Vienna, Rathauskeller

Monday 20 September 1999
	On the way to the second century: Past, present and future of sound archiving
9.00 – 10.15	Session 1: The start in Vienna and the Austrian situation today Chair: Grace Koch Dietrich Schüller (Wien/Austria) Rainer Hubert (Wien/Austria)
coffee break
10.45 – 12.45	Session 2: Early sound archiving in other parts of the world Chair: Ulf Scharlau Susanne Ziegler (Berlin/Germany), Rising from dust and oblivion – Historical recordings of traditional music in Berlin sound archives Vladimir Shiff (St. Petersburg/Russia), The early days of the St. Petersburg Phonogrammarchiv Grace Koch (Canberra/Australia), Sources of early ethnographic recordings in Australia George Brock-Nannestad (Genthofte/Danmark), The responsible archive – How did the early sound archives maintain data integrity?
lunch
14.15 – 17.00	Session 3: Round table: The present situation of sound and audiovisual archives and their future perspectives Chair: Sven Allerstrand Position papers will be presented by Ray Edmondson (Canberra/Australia), Anke Leenings (Frankfurt/Germany), Ulf Scharlau (Stuttgart/Germany) and Crispin Jewett (London/UK). General discussion
coffee break
18.00	Phonogrammarchiv's birthday celebration Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Festsaal, followed by a Reception (Akademie der Wissenschaften, main building, Dr. Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2)

Tuesday 21 September 1999
9.15 – 10.15	Technical Committee. Open session I. Chair: George Boston Joe Pengelly (Plymouth/UK), The high quality realisation of sound from cylinders of all sizes, speeds and formats Michael Biel (Morehead/USA), The introduction of instantaneous/direct recording in USA
coffee break
10.45 – 12.45	Technical Committee. Open session II. Mass storage systems and digitisation Chair: Albrecht Häfner Klaus Heinz (Berlin/Germany), The transfer of audio recordings to digital mass storage systems using DLT as target format Stefan Hoffman (Böblingen/Germany), Between digitisation and mass storage – system structures in digital archives Elisabeth Stiller-Erdpresser (Wien/Austria), Integrated Media Content Management Systems - Environment for Digital Archives Jörg Houpert (Bremen/Germany), The Quadriga, a work station designed for the analog-to-digital transfer
lunch
14.15 – 16.45	Radio Sound Archive Committee + FIAT. Open session. Chair: Albrecht Häfner Ralph Dahler (Lausanne/Switzerland), Digitisation of the Radio Swiss Romande sound archive: Analysis, preparation and organisation Pekka Gronow (Helsinki/Finland), Digital sound archives at Yleisradio: A status report Peter Dusek (Vienna/Austria), Sound digitisation in radio archives Klaus Leitner (Vienna/Austria), ORF plans for radio digitisation Concluding panel discussion: The convergence of the media – When and how will sound, film and TV-archives be affected? Chair: Dietrich Schüller. Panellists: Peter Dusek, Albrecht Häfner, Gerald D. Gibson, Sven Allerstrand
17.00 – 19.00	Professional visits (alternatively): PHONOGRAMMARCHIV Österreichische PHONOTHEK FILMARCHIV AUSTRIA SCHÖNBERGARCHIV ORF-FUNKHAUS (Radio) ORF-FERNSEHEN (Television)

Wednesday 22 September 1999
9.15 – 10.45	Discography Committee. Open session I. Chair: Rainer E. Lotz Anke Leenings (Frankfurt/Germany), Internet online presentation of the data base of the Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv (German Radio Archive) Klaus Teubig, (Berlin/Germany), CD-ROM presentation of the data base of the Deutsches Musikarchiv (German Music Archive) Cornel Platzer (Sydney/Australia), Presentation of MAVIS, Integrated AV-database, developed for ScreenSound Australia (formerly National Film and Sound Archive, Australia)	Music-Making and Recording Chair: Chris Clark Suman Ghosh (Calcutta/India), The historical developement of the recording industry and its impact on Indian classical music Mark Katz (Michigan/USA), The invisibility of music in the age of recording Oliver Busch (Berlin/Germany), "In the Groove": Jazz recordings, their transcriptions, and the musical work of art (Akademie der Wissenschaften, main building, Dr. Ignaz-Seipel- Platz 2, Sitzungssaal)
coffee break
11.15 – 12.45	Discography Committee. Open session II. Chair: Rainer E. Lotz Karte Riisalu (Talinn/Estonia), Micro-Disc presentation of the Estonian National Discography data base Kurt Nauck (Spring/USA), CD-ROM update on the AVRL American Vintage Record Label Discography NN, (IASA Ländergruppe Deutschland/Deutschschweiz), Update on the evaluation of the Schellack-Pro data base for the purpose of national label discographies	Vienna and recording Chair: Martin Elste Jörg Derksen (Bonn/Germany), Imperial importance: Franz Haböck as a reorganisator of musical education, pioneer of new archive strategies and inventor of the history of the castrati singers David Pickett (Bloomington/USA), Gustav Mahler in the recording studio Jonathan Sternberg (Philadelphia/USA), Early days of LP recording in Vienna (Akademie der Wissenschaften, main building, Dr. Ignaz-Seipel- Platz 2, Sitzungssaal)
lunch
14.15 – 15.45	General assembly II and Open forum
coffee break
16.15 – 17.45	Meeting of Executive Board, Committee Officers and Chairs of Branches. Members only!

19.30	Farewell dinner at Demel´s, k. k. Hof-Zuckerbäcker

Thursday 23 September 1999
9.15 – 10.45	Meeting of Executive Board (Österr. Phonothek). Members only!
coffee break
11.15 – 12.45	Meeting of Executive Board (Österr. Phonothek). Members only!
lunch
14.15 – 15.45	Meeting of Executive Board (Österr. Phonothek). Members only!
coffee break
16.15 – 17.45	Meeting of Executive Board (Österr. Phonothek). Members only!
	Post-Conference Tour

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