2024 Training Courses

Tutorials

Beginner Level

Memoriav-Workshop “Open Source im Archivalltag. Ein Update für die Praxis” in Bern on 10 January 2024 [de]
Atelier Memoriav “Logiciels ouverts dans l’archive. Une mise à jour pour la pratique” in Bern on 11 January 2024 [fr]
A one-week workshop on film preservation in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, end of July or beginning of August 2024 [en]
Open Source im Archivalltag at Staatsarchiv Aargau on 20 August 2024 [de]
COBOL Essentials, a two half-day course on 29 and 30 October 2024 [en]

Intermediate Level

Archivierung digitaler Film- und Videoformate, a two half-day workshop at Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv in Berlin, Germany, on 18 et 19 March 2024 [de]
Open-Source Tools and Resources for Audio-Visual Archives at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in Donostia (San Sebastián), from 4 to 7 June 2024 [en]
On the Materiality of the Audio-Visual Heritage at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in Donostia (San Sebastián), Spain, from 15 to 18 October and on 4 December 2024 [en]
Replastifizierung von Filmen und Magnetbändern, at Lichtspiel/Kinemathek Bern on 28 October 2024 [de]

Advanced Level

FFmpeg-Workshop at Hochschule der Künste Bern on 10 June 2024 [de]
The MovIm Video Codec in Practice on 30 August 2024 [en]
ALGOL Dialects, a two half-day course on 5 and 6 November 2024 [en]

Lectures

Combining Old Yiddish and a Judeo-Italian Dialect online for the “Old Yiddish” course by Diana Matut at Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages on 28 February 2024 [en]
ייִדישע טיפּאָגראַפֿיע (Yiddish Typography) online for the “Old Yiddish” course by Diana Matut at Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages on 13 March 2024 [en]
“Recipes for Disaster” by Helen Hill at Orphan Film Symposium at Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York City, United States of America, from 10 to 13 April 2024 [en]
Deep machine learning applied to moving image restoration online at the SEAPAVAA Conference Navigating New Horizons in Audiovisual Archiving in Solo, Indonesia, on 12 June 2024 [en]
Combining Judeo-German and a Judeo-Italian Dialect online for the “Literary Judeo-Italian” course by Marilena Colasuonno at Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages on 24 June 2024 [en]
The FFV1 Video Codec in Practice: Opportunities and Challenges for the online workshop “Digital Preservation: Digital Formats, Network and Data Curation” of the SAFE – The SustainAbility of italian Film hEritage project, organised by the Università degli Studi della Tuscia and Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy, on 19 July 2024 [en]
Deep machine learning applied to moving image restoration at No Time to Wait 8 at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien in Karlsruhe, Germany, from 11 to 13 of September 2024 [en]
Greener Digital Archiving at “Green Archiving – Eco-Friendly Practices in Use in the Film Archives”, FIAF Commissions’ Thursday Online Workshops, planned initially for 30 March 2023, then for 4 April 2024 and finally set for 14 November 2024 [en]

Reports from the Field

Mass digitisation of Quadruplex videotape on 16 February 2024 [en]
Working with multispectral moving images: Lessons learned over seven years on 1 March 2024 [en]
Deep machine learning applied to moving image restoration: Lessons learned over seven years on 15 March 2024 [en]
Video conversion and transcoding nightmares on 5 April 2024 [en]
Once again on the ProRes flavours on 19 April 2024 [en]
Bayer or not Bayer, that is not the question on 6 September 2024 [en]
Ten years of film scanner design and manufacturing on 6 December 2024 [en]

Internships

We were pleased to welcome three colleagues and one student, as well as to mentor online five colleagues, two scholars and one student.

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 8 at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien in Karlsruhe, Germany, from 11 to 13 of September 2024

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