SOIMA 2015

SOIMA 2015: Unlocking Sound and Image Heritage is an international conference on ensuring a safe and creative future for sound and image heritage. In the days before the conference workshops are organized. The conference was held in Brussels and locally organised by KIK-IRPA.

Purpose

The conference is organized to take action and share knowledge, skills and resources to ensure the current transition from analogue to digital formats. Without taking action this image and sound heritage of the past century is at risk and will disappear. The conference will bring together professionals and policy makers with an interest in sound and image preservation.

The conference focusses on four themes:

Memory, Intangible Heritage and Creative Expressions
Sustaining Sound and Image Heritage
Creative Use and Access
Education and Training: Current Needs and Future Possibilities

History and background

The Sound and Image Collections Conservation Programme (SOIMA) was launched in 2007 by the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) as response to the need of a coordinated international action to safeguard endangered audiovisual collections.

Since 2007, every two years the international SOIMA conference is organized, with conferences in 2007 in Brazil, in 2009 in New Delhi (India), in 2011 in Riga (Latvia) and Vilnius (Lithuania), and in 2013 in Nairobi (Kenya). The conference is held in collaboration with national and international organisations who have collections with photographic, audiovisual and film media.

Contacts

Romaine

Interested participants

Partners

The partners of the conference are:

ICCROM, International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property
ICCROM-ATHAR, Architectural and ArchaeologicalTangible Heritage in the Arab Region
The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Stichting Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid) (reseach)
FARO, Flemish interface centre for cultural heritage
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), the inventory, the scientific study, the conservation and the promotion of the country’s artistic and cultural property
AVPreserve, a service information management and software development consulting firm
Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council (BAAC)
Museo delle Culture, a centre dedicated to interdisciplinary research about the world cultures
The Flemish Commission for UNESCO (Vlaamse Unesco Commissie)
Belgian French and German Commission for UNESCO (Commission belge francophone et germanophone pour l’UNESCO)
Free University Brussels (VUB) (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
PACKED vzw, a centre of expertise for digital cultural heritage
Wikimedia Belgium (WMBE)
Memnon
Flemish Institute for Archiving (VIAA)
Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB)
The International Federation of Television Archives (FIAT-IFTA)
visit.brussels

Timeline

9 December 2014 - Meeting with Hilke Arijs of SOIMA 2015 (Dimi z & Romaine)
27 August-2 September 2015 - Pre-Conference Workshop
2 September - Opening of conference at the Musical Instrument Museum (Romaine)
- Announcement Wiki Loves Art
- Announcement collaboration KIK-IRPA with Wikipedia/Wikimedia Belgium on image donation
- Presentation two booklets (available in 3 languages) published by Wikimedia Belgium and handed over to director of KIK-IRPA
  - Free knowledge thanks to Creative Commons Licenses – Why a non-commercial clause often won‘t serve your needs (view/download booklet (Dutch | French))
  - How to work successfully with Wikipedia – A guide for galleries, libraries, archives and museums (view/download booklet (Dutch | French))
3-4 September 2015 - Conference at the Academy Palace (photos | DerekvG report) (DerekvG & Romaine & MADe)
- Stand Wikimedia Belgium at conference

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