2023 Training Courses

Tutorials

Beginner Level

• Workshop Methoden/Tools zur Bewältigung von sehr vielen AV-Dateien im Rahmen der Memoriav Fachtagung | Atelier Méthodes/outils pour gérer un très grand nombre de fichiers AV dans le cadre de la Journée professionnelle Memoriav “Too Big to Archive” at UniS in Bern on 21 June 2023 [de fr]
• COBOL Essentials, a two half-day course on 19 and 21 September 2023 [en]

Intermediate Level

• Memoriav-Workshop: Automatisierung von FFmpeg mit Bash at Lichtspiel in Bern on 12 January 2023 [de]
• Atelier Memoriav: Automatisation de FFmpeg avec Bash at Lichtspiel in Bern on 13 January 2023 [fr]
• Memoriav-Workshop: Qualitätskontrolle von audiovisuellen Dateien at Lichtspiel in Bern on 26 January 2023 [de]
• Atelier Memoriav: Contrôle qualité des fichiers audiovisuels at Lichtspiel in Bern on 27 January 2023 [fr]
• Using FFmpeg in a Film Archive, FIAF Commissions’ Thursday Online Workshops, on 29 June 2023 30 March 2023 [en]
• Open-Source Tools for Audio-Visual Archives at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in Donostia (San Sebastián), Spain, from 16 to 19 May 2023 [en]
• Medienkunst: Technologie und Erhaltungsstrategien III at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna, Austria, on 14 and 15 June 2023 [de]
• Programming ALGOL, a five half-day course from 9 to 13 October 2023 [en]
• On the Materiality of the Audio-Visual Heritage at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in Donostia (San Sebastián), Spain, from 17 to 20 October 2023 and on 30 November 2023 12 January 2024 [en]

Advanced Level

• FFmpeg-Workshop at Hochschule der Künste Bern on 25 May 2023 [de]
• Analoge und digitale Filmkonservierung und -restaurierung at Hochschule der Künste Bern on 1 November 2023 [de]

Lectures

• ייִדישע טיפּאָגראַפֿיע (Yiddish Typography) online for the “Old Yiddish” course by Diana Matut at Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages on 1 March 2023 [en]
• לוּ לִיבֵירוֹ דֵי יוֹנַה (The Book of Jonah) online for the “Literary Judeo-Italian” course by Marilena Colasuonno at Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages on 6 March 2023 [en]
• The Green Archive, FIAF Commissions’ Thursday Online Workshops, on 30 March 2023 postponed to 2024 [en]
• My very personal journey online for the “Literary Judeo-Italian” course by Marilena Colasuonno at Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages on 12 June 2023 [en]
• A Conservation and Restoration Laboratory: AV Preservation by reto.ch at the EPFL Innovation Park near Lausanne on 29 June 2023 with webcasting [en]
• Bash Scripts for Audio-Visual Preservation at the IASA Conference & ICTMD Forum in İstanbul, Türkiye, from 11 to 14 September 2023 [en]

Reports from the Field

• File and Data Restoration on 20 January 2023 [en]
• Mass digitisation of 1-inch Type C videotape on 3 March 2023 [en]
• Can we still call it restoration? on 24 March 2023 [en]
• RAWcooked in Action on 21 Avril 2023 [de fr]

Internships

• We were pleased to welcome nine colleagues and a scholar, as well as to mentor online three colleagues and two students (including a master thesis).

Patronage of the Arts and the Sciences

• AMIA, the Association of Moving Image Archivists
• FIAF, the International Federation of Film Archives
• IASA, the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
• No Time to Wait 7 at Národní Filmový Archiv in Prague, Czech Republic, from 8 to 10 November 2023
• RAWcooked, the bridge between uncompressed and lossless compressed files

2023-12-05