Guest speakers and trainers

Peter Bubestinger-Steindl studied Media Computer Science at the Technical University in Vienna. He has worked as a project lead and developer in the field of digital archives since 2002. As employee of NOA, he set up and developed solutions for both television and radio archives and service-providers (ORF, RTV-Slovenia, Memnon, YLE, etc). From 2010 to 2015, he managed the video digitization development at the Austrian Mediathek and was instrumental in discovering and improving the lossless video codec FFV1 for long-term preservation. In recent years he has specialized in coordinating and deploying paid open source solutions for high-quality, demanding use cases and has been invited as a trainer, speaker and lecturer by memory institutions, universities and companies around the globe. In 2015 he founded the company "AV-RD" which offers services and development around Open Source in the archival sector.

Kara Van Malssen is a partner and senior consultant at AVPreserve, a consulting and software development firm focused on helping organizations realize the potential of their information. Kara specializes in digital preservation, digital asset management, and metadata management. Some of her recent clients include the Smithsonian Institution, WWE, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, University of Ghana, and VIAA. Kara has taught courses in Digital Preservation and Digital Literacy for the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation MA Programme, from which she is a graduate. She is also lead instructor and curriculum developer for ICCROM's SOIMA programme.

Since graduating from the MA programme Preservation & Presentation of the Moving Image in Amsterdam in 2009, Erwin Verbruggen has worked at the Netherlands Institute of Sound & Vision. He assisted on cataloguing, film preparation and film scanning issues for the nitrate and amateur film collections. Since 2011 he works at the department for research and development, where he participates in local and international projects that involve search retrieval, interoperability, user studies and digital preservation. Erwin has been a guest lecturer at Utrecht University, the University of Amsterdam, the ENCRyM School for Conservation and National University in Mexico City and at the two editions of Winter School in 2016 and in 2017.

Bojan Kosi is Head of Digital archive at RTV Slovenija’s Mediateka. He is responsible for planning and managing massive digitization projects and long-term archiving. He sees the benefits from convergence of audiovisual media to one common digital archive. Workflow development for film digitization is the main topic he is currently dealing with.

Eva Verdoodt is a digital archivist / business process analyst working for VIAA since 2013. Eva establishes the processes for archiving by converting the information into models and procedures. She supervises the metadata formats that are used at VIAA. This way she gets an overview of the stream of information between the VIAA archive and the different platforms.

Anne Gant is Head of the Film Conservation and Digital Access department at EYE Filmmuseum, which handles digitization, born-digital films, archival sales, digital access and film restoration. She is a graduate of the Preservation and Presentation program at the University of Amsterdam, and worked in film distribution and museum management in New York before coming to Amsterdam.