Transcript RTVA_in_English

Preserving our audiovisual
heritage
Plan for a national television and radio
archive
The Finnish Film Archive (FFA)




Founded in 1957. Films donated or deposited
on voluntary basis
In 1979 FFA becomes a state bureau
Legal deposit legislation concerning moving
image in 1984
All materials covered by legal deposit under
the same legislation hopefully in 2005
FFA:s declaration of its aims in 1958
FFA collects and preserves films that are significant
from the point of view of film history or film art,
screens films which illuminate film history, publishes
books, periodicals and other publications with the
aim of promoting film culture, promotes research of
film by offering its collections for the use of scholarly
work, collects all kinds of material which relate to
film history and film art such as books, periodicals,
publications, photographs, programme notes,
adverts, manuscripts, film music, sketches for sets
and technical devices.
The new legal deposit legislation



Programmes considered to have national
cultural historical significance will be
deposited at broadcast quality
All programmes of nationwide radio and
television channels will be recorded by the
RTVA at browsing quality
Samples of local networks will be deposited
at broadcast quality (4 weeks / year)
RTVA will cooperate with





Producers,
TV- and radio companies
University departments: film and television
studies, media studies, communication
studies
Scholarly associations: Association of Film
Studies, Association of Media Studies
Other scientific and cultural organisations
Collections will be used by







Film and television studies
Other art research
Media and communication studies
Various branches of historical studies
Sociology
Language studies
Geography
Problems in making collections
available




Tension between preservation and making
available
Logistical problems and related expenses
The need of radio- and television companies
to focus on their core activities
Copyrights
Research and other usage




FFA-RTVA collections are available for
scholarly purposes
Other usage depends on possible
agreements made with depositors
All materials in digital form will be accessible
also at legal deposit libraries
Preservation and making available of old
materials is still an open question
Criteria for the recording & storing system








Wide coverage
Reliable basic functions
Automatic back-up system
Automatic refreshing of material
Reliable linking with metadata
Various search criteria
Rapid availability of materials
Compatibility with various databases
Metadata and related material





Basic metadata from Venice
Other metadata related to recorded material
mainly as available in digital form
Some degree of catalogue information
collected at premises
Metadata related to deposited material as in
connection with depositing films
Related material as agreed with related
parties
RTVA functions and facilities






Specifically designed computer terminals
Public discussion between professionals and
scholars
Scholarly meetings with academic institutions
and scholarly societies
Scholarly publications
Textbooks and other educational material
Material made available via internet
Computer terminals








Various search functions
Programme information
Recorded radio- and television programmes
Other digitally stored materials
Catalogue information
Other databases
Private clipboard
Statistical functions, tools for graphs
Necessary search functions






Title of programme
Time of broadcasting
Programme type
Persons
Producers
Free search
Present state of the project






Copyright legislation will be debated in the
parliament in the near future
Legal deposit legislation will hopefully be
passed in 2005
European Council general agreement, the
appendix of which obliges the signatories to
take care of their national audiovisual
heritage
Budgetary considerations
System already extensively drafted
Collecting of metadata still an open question