The 40th conference of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) will be held in Athens, Greece hosted by the Hellenic National Audiovisual Archive.

The survival of sound and audiovisual archives is dependant on the exchange of ideas, shared standards, similar technological approaches and mutual support. The conference will explore the activities, achievements, interconnections and relationships between individuals and institutions active in the field of sound and audiovisual collections.

Meet Tom Lorenz and Joerg Houpert in Athens

Wednesday, September 23nd Joerg will give an Oral Presentation

From Preservation Master to On-line Access: Automating Workflows for huge Media Collections

Automatic workflows are suitable to systematically enhance the archive content user value. For this the automatic enrichment of metadata is the key component. Step one is the quality controlled ingest with automatic inclusion of technical metadata from the used playback devices, step two the automatic DSP based audio quality & content analysis. In step three descriptive and structural metadata will be enriched through access to internal and/or internet databases. This metadata package will be the basis for full automatic metadata driven audio restoration. The access to the archived media will be provided in the requested format and bitrate by automatic routines for conversion. Client implementations will be presented.

Cube-Tec International is one of the main sponsors of the IASA conference. We keep audio alive!

We are a Sustaining Member of IASA since year 2000