New INA president appointed
By Claude Mussou Mathieu Gallet, former deputy chief of the staff for Frederic Mitterrand , French minister of Culture and communication, has been appointed as Ina‘s
Archivists and Academics Coming Together at 1st FIAT/IFTA Television Studies Seminar
By Berber Hagedoorn & Dana Mustata On May 14th, l’Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA) in Paris hosted the 1st FIAT/IFTA Television Studies Seminar. Participants came
Europeana Public Domain Charter: libraries, museums and archives support Europe’s heritage
Europeana press release. The Hague – May 25th, 2010. Europeana.eu, Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, has published the Public Domain Charter. The Charter has
Feature on EUscreen in D-Lib Magazine
By Wietske van den Heuvel D-Lib Magazine has included a feature about EUscreen in it’s May/June issue. D-Lib is an online journal “with a focus
Distance Educators to Focus on Media Use at Next Annual EDEN Conference
By Sally Reynolds Sally Reynolds from ATiT in Belgium along with Deborah Arnold, VIDEOSCOP, Université Nancy 2, France will be presenting examples of media use
More than 75% of teachers in the USA use digital media
By Sally Reynolds The 7th annual study from PBS (USA’s national platform for online educational media resources) on media and technology use within the classroom, provides a
Open EUscreen workshop on Metadata Schemes and Content Selection Policies
23-24 June, Mykonos, Greece EUscreen has organised a two-day workshop on metadata schemes and content selection strategies in the audiovisual domain, to be held in
More resources needed for Europeana on-line library
Press release by the European Parlement “The EU’s on-line library, museum and archive – Europeana – needs content from more Member States and further EU
Presentation about Open Images and EUscreen on JTS2010
Johan Oomen will give a presentation about the Open Images platform, which will also be involved in EUscreen, during the Joint Technical Symposium 2010 (JTS2010)
Registration for the first FIAT/IFTA Television Studies Seminar is still open
The seminar will be held on May 14 in Paris. This international Television Studies Seminar, hosted by the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA) will present
Deadline for registration FRAME Seminar closes on 30th April 2010
The “Institut National de l’Audiovisuel” (INA) in collaboration with the International Federation of Television Archives (FIAT/IFTA) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) organizes the FRAME
Large interest in the National Library of Sweden’s YouTube-channel
By Christopher Natzén During the autumn of 2009, The National Library of Sweden (KB) launched its own YouTube-channel. Upon its release, the channel contained 34 items
Europeana has released it’s Public Domain Charter
Europeana released it’s Public Domain Charter to protect the Public Domain. According to Europeana it is: “a statement that calls for the Public Domain to
Presentation of a new multi-lingual Mediterranean television channel during the COPEAM conference
By Claude Mussou From 8 to 11 April 2010, the Permanent Conference of Mediterranean Audiovisual Operators (COPEAM), has met in Paris under the patronage of
Open call for the MEDEA awards 2010
The MEDEA Awards team have re-launched the MEDEA website for this year’s competition with a closing date of 31 July. This site includes a media
Growing interest in educational repositories
By Sally Reynolds The amount of interest in educational repositories is on the rise and practically every European country now offers some form of repository
EUscreen workshop on user requirements in Amsterdam
A workshop on user requirements has been held on March 31 in Amsterdam at the venue of Noterik. The workshop was attended by members of
Additional funding for the development of online services for Memoriav
Memoriav, one of the associate partners of EUscreen, has signed a contract in March with the Swiss Federal Office of Culture which secures federal funding for the archive
