The Joint Technical Symposium brings together all nine peacefully co-existing associations within the audiovisual archiving field. It is a three-yearly event that, after an interesting session in Oslo in 2010 and a gap year in 2013, reappeared this year in Singapore, where it was co-hosted by the South East Asia-Pacific Audio Visual Archive Association and the National Archives of Singapore.
Image credit: Erwin Verbruggen, CC BY-SA.
The wonderful museum space the sessions took place in was the National Museum of Singapore, alternated with the 13-story high building of the city-state's National Library. Delegatues were welcomed to visits of the National Archives and cultural tours to the spectacular night safari zoo and heritage tours. An impeccable organisation, interesting vendor's café and host of varied and highly specialistic talks made for an engaging symposium.
Image credit: Brecht Declercq, via Twitter (cropped).
Sound & Vision was present with two papers: Johan Oomen, manager R&D, talked about the two-speed IT model we implemented to pair innovation with solid in-house workflows. An earlier version of his talk can be found on SlideShare. Erwin Verbruggen, project lead at the department, presented the work the MediaConch team is doing on openly licensed file conformance checkers in the framework of the PREFORMA project.
Our CEO Jan Muller, president of the Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archiving Associations, welcomed the symposium participants in the company of Singapore's Minister of Communications and, after a jam-packed three days of sessions, closed the conference.
The papers given at the symposium will be published by Indiana University Press later this year. If you can't hold your breath, do take a look at the collaborative notes we took during the talks at: bit.ly/jts2016
More info
- For more information, see the website at: www.jts2016.org
- Conversations held on Twitter throughout the symposium were archived and can be found as a TAGS Google Sheet (spreadsheet), TAGSExplorer (visualization/search) or on Github (list of tweeted image URLs).