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Monday, October 19
 

9:30am EEST

Depolarising How We Talk About AI
Monday October 19, 2026 9:30am - 12:30pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
Workplace conversations about AI often get stuck. This workshop gives participants the practical tools and confidence to change that – moving beyond the for-or-against standoff toward something more nuanced and constructive.
AI isn't new, especially for heritage communities. For over 20 years, conversations about machine learning stayed within specialist circles (researchers developing sector-specific tools for metadata enrichment). Today, those conversations have expanded to include curators, project managers, HR departments, and legal teams. People with very different understandings of what AI is, what it's for, and what it means are being asked to sit down together and agree on organisational policies or cross-departmental “AI” projects. More often than not, these conversations end in frustration. But it doesn’t have to.

That's what How to Talk to People About AI was made for. Developed by the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision and AIxDESIGN, it's a practical playbook of workshop activities, icebreakers, and facilitation guides that help teams create an environment for more honest, grounded, and productive dialogue about using AI in the workplace.

In this interactive workshop, participants try out these tools firsthand and leave with techniques they can bring back to their own organisations. Because the real work – reimagining stewardship ethics, or building infrastructures for metadata exchange – is hard enough without getting derailed by arguments about AI.
Speakers
avatar for Rasa Bocyte

Rasa Bocyte

Senior Advisor for Research Collaborations, Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision
Rasa Bocyte (she/her) is a cultural heritage professional with a passion for forging cross-sectoral connections underpinned by creative and critical approaches. She advocates for sustainable innovation practices that prioritise public values, slowness and care. In her current role... Read More →
avatar for Ploipailin Flynn

Ploipailin Flynn

Researcher, AIXDESIGN
Ploipailin Flynn is a AI researcher interested in making AI work for "the rest of us.”She is the co-founder of AIxDESIGN, a global community of 8,000+ creative technologists building alternatives to Big Tech AI. She also also lecture at ual: central saint martin and ual: Creative Computing Institute in London... Read More →
avatar for Nadia Piet

Nadia Piet

Researcher, AIXDESIGN
Nadia Piet is a designer, researcher, and organizer exploring the intersection of technology, AI/ML, and (digital) culture. Her work examines how we shape technology and it shapes us in return, centering participatory, protopian, and feminist approaches. She is the co-founder and... Read More →
Monday October 19, 2026 9:30am - 12:30pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Workshop, In Person
  • Zoom password 289030

1:30pm EEST

Azimuth Adjustments: Will We Do All Our Collections Again?
Monday October 19, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
The current methodology to correct azimuth on quarter inch audio tape based upon a combination of spectral tools and  listening abilities has led in the last 25 years to common practices how to digitize tapes with wrongly adjusted azimuth. In a recent field test with  senior archive audio engineers and young students, a test was done to compare different approaches how to adjust azimuth – based upon ears, spectral tools, and completely new approaches. The test results of traditional and new methodologies will be presented, which might put a new light and a question in the way how collections have been digitised in the past.
 
Speakers
avatar for NOA

NOA

Managing Partner, NOA GmbH
Our Mission:
NOA is a privately owned business company founded in 2000 in Austria (EU) that provides flexible turnkey solutions for sustainable multimedia archiving and legacy archive digitization on an entry to enterprise scale.

 "As one of the leaders in the digital archive market with decades of experience, NOA takes the responsibility of shaping the future of multimedia archiving in a long-term perspective seriously. We work tirelessly to offer state-of-the-art technology backed by top-of-the-class services... Read More →
avatar for Prof.in Dr. Nadja Wallaszkovits

Prof.in Dr. Nadja Wallaszkovits

Professor for Conservation of New Media and Digital Information, Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design
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Monday October 19, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Long Presentation, Hybrid
  • global Y
  • Zoom password 289030

2:30pm EEST

MediaShield: Preserving the Authenticity of Community Radio Archives in the Age of AI-Generated Audio
Monday October 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
MediaShield is a preservation-oriented framework designed to protect the authenticity and integrity of sound archives in the age of generative artificial intelligence. As deepfake audio and voice cloning technologies become increasingly accessible, audiovisual heritage—especially within community and associative radio—faces growing risks of manipulation and loss of trust.

MediaShield addresses this challenge by combining acoustic identification with AI-assisted analysis to verify both the origin and integrity of audio recordings. The system is designed for local deployment, without cloud dependency, making it suitable for low-resource environments where many cultural archives are maintained.

By supporting authenticity, traceability, and long-term preservation, MediaShield contributes to safeguarding sound memory and strengthening trust in audiovisual archives in the context of rapidly evolving AI technologies.
Speakers
avatar for Nûjîn Kartal

Nûjîn Kartal

Chief Innovation Officer, MediaApes
Nûjîn Kartal is an immersive producer based in Germany, active in the creative and digital industries. He works on innovative projects blending interactive media, 3D technologies, and immersive experiences, notably within MediaApes GmbH. His role involves designing, coordinating, and producing... Read More →
avatar for sami meddeb

sami meddeb

president, digital cooperation association
Sami Meddeb is an audiovisual archiving expert dedicated to digital preservation since 2020. Specializing in media management application development since 2023, he pivoted strategically toward Artificial Intelligence in 2025.He notably developed innovative solutions for deepfake... Read More →
avatar for Carlos Nascimento

Carlos Nascimento

Founder and Director :, Qualia Audio Lab
Carlos Nascimento is an audio engineering expert and founder of Qualia Audio Lab Specializing in sound restoration and digital archiving, he collaborates on international research regarding audio authentication and watermarking, bridging the gap between heritage preservation and... Read More →
Monday October 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Short Presentation, Hybrid
  • Zoom password 289030

3:30pm EEST

Permanent Records, Permanent Access, Permanent Readability: Cerabyte The New Storage Technology
Monday October 19, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
Existing storage technologies for medium- to long-term preservation, such as magnetic tape, as well as emerging approaches for very long-term storage, including DNA, Microsoft Silica/SPhotonix, and Holomem, still face significant limitations in fast access and high-performance readout. Without these capabilities, any new storage medium is unlikely to meet the practical requirements of contemporary and future data storage infrastructures.

Cerabyte introduces a new technology for permanent, sustainable, and cost-efficient data storage over extended periods, while delivering high-performance and random-access. Based on ceramic materials, the medium suffers no bit rot and withstands humidity, high temperature, corrosion, and magnetic pulses.

A technology intended to preserve data across centuries raises two fundamental questions for archives: first, how can data be read if the original reading technology is no longer available; and second, assuming the bits can be recovered, how can they be translated into meaningful information?

Although Cerabyte provides dedicated high-performance readers, the stored data can also be read independently using standard industrial microscopy. Provided that the error-correction algorithms remain known, the encoded information can be reconstructed from the recovered bit patterns.

Our presentation will demonstrate such an independent recovery workflow. A feature film from one of the world’s largest entertainment corporations, whose name will be disclosed prior to IASA, will be written to Cerabyte media. It will be read using an industrial microscope and a makeshift decoder developed by CERN.

The workflow, technical approach, and results will be presented and discussed at IASA.
Speakers
avatar for Martin Kunze

Martin Kunze

CMO, Cerabyte; Memory of Mankind
Martin Kunze is an Austrian silicate technologist, ceramics specialist, and visionary inventor dedicated to preserving information for future generations. In 2012, he founded the groundbreaking Memory of Mankind project, a unique time capsule of our civilization etched onto durable... Read More →
Monday October 19, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Long Presentation, In Person
  • Zoom password 289030

4:30pm EEST

Piql Technology as a safeguard for memory, Identity and authenticity of audio visual archives
Monday October 19, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
The study identifies adoption of Piql technology as one of the ways through which archival institutions can preserve the memory, identity and authenticity of audio-visual archives in the face of unforeseen disasters. Using the United Arab Emirates (UAE) National Library and Archives (NLA) as a case study and based on literature review, the paper assesses the ways in which the UAE NLA safeguards it audio visual archives from possible effects of disaster and conflict. Secondly, it outlines how the adoption of Piql technology by the UAE NLA preserves the memory and identity of  audio-visual heritage. Lastly, it describes ways in which the use of Piql technology at the UAE NLA safeguards the authenticity of audio-visual archives in the age of AI and misinformation. The study revealed that Piql’s Arctic World Archives is located in a geographically stable, mountainous location that protects audio visual archives from extreme weather conditions such as floods from rising ocean levels. Further, it’s a disaster proof vault  that requires zero electricity thus offering ecofriendly storage with zero carbon emissions. Secondly, the permanency nature of the Piqlfilm safeguards the memory and identity of UAE heritage by storing data in a photosensitive film that  does not require regular technology upgrades and is designed to last over 1000 years. Lastly, it emerged that the authenticity of UAE’s archives in Piqlfilm format  is maintained by storing data offline in a read only medium that cannot be hacked, modified and deleted.
Speakers
avatar for Victor Kabata

Victor Kabata

Assistant Professor, Sorbonne University, Abu Dhabi
Victor Kabata is currently an Assistant Professor at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, History Department. He possesses a Doctorate in Information Studies from the University of Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa. He teaches records and archives management students at undergraduate and master’s... Read More →
Monday October 19, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Short Presentation, In Person
  • Theme Technical Resilience and Preservation Refresh Strategies
  • Zoom password 289030
 
Tuesday, October 20
 

11:00am EEST

Discovering L’Assedio Dei Sogni, The Siege of Dreams: Italian POW Recordings from South Africa, 1946
Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
I work with a small not-for-profit reissue label called Recordiana, dedicated to discovering and digitising out-of-print South African recordings where master tapes no longer exist. Through this work, I recently became involved in the rediscovery of a piece of music, an original war time composition, that had not been heard for over 80 years.

The story begins with my partner in Recordiana, Rob Allingham, a long-time music archivist and record collector (formerly archivist at Gallo Record Company). In the 1990s he purchased a large box of South African 78rpm shellac records at an estate auction. 

Among them were ten mysterious white-label test pressings with handwritten notes referencing “Zonderwater 1946” and “Gallo (Pty) Ltd”.

Zonderwater was the biggest Prisoner of War detention camp built by the Allies during World War II. Located 43 kms east of Pretoria, South Africa, more than 100,000 Italian soldiers captured by the British on the North and East Africa fronts were interned at Zonderwater from April 1941 to January 1947.

Following the precepts of the Geneva Convention to the letter, the South African camp management focused on the humane treatment of their captives, and the camp developed into a productive and creative hub with POWs engaged in numerous activities in the endless fight against boredom and depression. Musical performance was a key part of these activities. (Dr Donato Somma, University of the Witwatersrand, 2007.)

Through our research we have determined that in December 1946, three of the most prominent musical talents in the camp, Mino Martucci, a renowned violinist in Italy prior to the war, pianist Davio Almangano and composer Raoul Maccari recorded ten performances for recording engineer, John Hecdt of the Gallo Recording Company.

Nine of the recordings are light classical pieces such as 'Capresse Viennoise' and 'Nocturne in E Flat’ made popular in the 1920s and 30s by the likes of Fritz Kreisler and Yehudi Menuhin. The other two recordings are solo piano pieces played by Davio Almangano - including the recording of an original composition for piano: a piece identified with a note on the sleeve as 'composed in captivity' called 'L'Assedio Dei Sogni’ (The Siege of Dreams), composed by a POW named Raoul Maccari.

This specific composition and recording has never previously been heard, nor was any information
about the recording session ever documented, as these recordings were never issued for commercial release by the company and the 10 shellac "test pressing" 78” RPM discs remained in the private collection of the recording engineer until his death in the 1980s.

This presentation will offer an opportunity for delegates to hear the remarkable story of how these specific recordings were recently re-discovered, digitised and preserved for future generations through the work of Recordiana and the ILMC (Institute of Concentrationary Musical Literature) foundation in Italy - and an opportunity to hear, for the first time, an original composition performed and captured in the Zonderwater POW camp in 1946: "L’Assedio Dei Sogni, The Siege of Dreams.”

The presentation was successfully delivered at the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) conference in 2024 (Stellenbosch, South Africa) on a panel chaired by Ferenc Janós Szabó (Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian of Sciences and the Liszt Ference Academy of Music)
Speakers
avatar for Duncan John Shelwell

Duncan John Shelwell

Partner, Recordiana
Duncan John Shelwell is a practicing and published photographer, music curator and researcher, currently working and exhibiting in Cape Town, South Africa.He is a partner in RECORDIANA  https://recordiana.bandcamp.com a non-profit record label and music consultancy digitising out-of-print South African recordings. Previously, he was head of catalogue at Sony Music Africa until 2018, before that working at Gallo Record Company, Africa’s oldest independent label from 2005... Read More →
Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Short Presentation, Hybrid
  • Zoom password 289030

11:30am EEST

From Loss to Resilience: Safeguarding Bangladesh’s Audiovisual Heritage in Times of Crisis
Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
This presentation examines the challenges and opportunities of safeguarding audiovisual heritage in Bangladesh, a context shaped by historical loss, environmental vulnerability, and limited archival infrastructure. It takes as a starting point the legacy of Hiralal Sen, one of the earliest filmmakers in South Asia, whose pioneering works were largely destroyed by fire. This early loss highlights the fragility of audiovisual memory and the long-standing absence of systematic preservation practices in the region.

Building on this historical case, the paper explores contemporary risks facing audiovisual archives in Bangladesh, including climate-related threats such as flooding and humidity, resource constraints in archival institutions, and the vulnerability of independent and community-based collections. Particular attention is given to the preservation of materials that document marginalized voices, including grassroots movements, indigenous communities, and socially engaged media practices, which are often at risk of neglect or erasure.

The presentation also addresses emerging concerns regarding the authenticity and integrity of audiovisual records in the digital era. With the growing influence of artificial intelligence and the spread of manipulated media, ensuring the reliability of archival materials has become increasingly complex, especially in contexts with limited technological capacity.
In response to these challenges, the paper proposes practical and scalable strategies for resilience, including low-cost digitization, community-led archiving initiatives, capacity-building programs, and regional collaboration. It argues that safeguarding audiovisual heritage in Bangladesh requires an approach that integrates local knowledge with global best practices.

By situating Bangladesh within broader discussions of archives in times of peace and crisis, this presentation contributes to ongoing efforts to protect memory, identity, and authenticity in vulnerable archival contexts.
Speakers
avatar for Smita Barua

Smita Barua

Sub Assistant Engineer, Member
Sub-Assistant Engineer | Digital Archiving & Document Control Specialist
 Dhaka, Bangladesh
📞 +88-01744272336
📧 [email protected]PROFESSIONAL PROFILESenior audiovisual archive and digital preservation professional with 14+ years of experience in national-level film archiving... Read More →
Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Short Presentation, Hybrid
  • Zoom password 289030

12:00pm EEST

Archiving Disappearance: Safeguarding Platformed Audiovisual Memory in Gaza and South Lebanon
Tuesday October 20, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
The paper, “Archiving Disappearance: Safeguarding Platformed Audiovisual Memory in Gaza and South Lebanon,” examines the preservation of wartime audiovisual documentation shared on social media from Gaza and South Lebanon since October 2023, and proposes a framework for archiving both the media itself and the conditions under which it disappears from platforms.
Speakers
avatar for Ghada Dimashk

Ghada Dimashk

Arabic Resources Specialist at Research & Instruction Services, American University of Beirut
Ghada Dimashk is an archivist and metadata librarian specializing in Lebanese and Palestinian cultural heritage. She is Arabic Resources Specialist in Research and Instruction Services at Jafet Library, American University of Beirut, and a member of the Project Management Team for... Read More →
Tuesday October 20, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Short Presentation
  • Zoom password 289030

1:30pm EEST

Archived Sounds of World War I Prisoners from Serbia: Rethinking Comparative Musicology
Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
Throughout the twentieth century, wars led to the loss of valuable sound collections in Serbia. At the
same time, the captivity of prisoners of war from Serbia (Serbs and Roma) in the early twentieth
century also resulted in sound recordings that remain largely unknown in Serbia today. These
recordings are important to analyze as a missing link in the history of local ethnomusicology, while
also listening to them as sonic traces of human marginalization. The research material for this
presentation consists of digitized sound recordings and their metadata from German prison camps,
recorded between 1915 and 1918 and preserved at the Phonogrammarchiv of the Ethnological
Museum and the Lautarchiv of Humboldt University in Berlin. The presentation will explore the
questions these archived recordings raise today: the voices of captives, the methods of German
comparative musicologists, and the ways in which war functioned as an active force in the
dehumanization of music-making, archiving and research practices.
Speakers
avatar for Dr. Marija Dumnić Vilotijević

Dr. Marija Dumnić Vilotijević

Senior Research Associate, Institute of Musicology SASA
Marija Dumnić Vilotijević holds MA and PhD in ethnomusicology from Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade. She is Senior Research Associate at Institute of Musicology of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She specialized in similar institutions of Austrian and... Read More →
Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Short Presentation, In Person
  • global Y
  • Zoom password 289030

2:00pm EEST

Radio/Archive: Exploring Literary Radio Archives as Sites of Memory and Cultural Identity
Tuesday October 20, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
This talk will focus on a newly launched research project conducted in collaboration with CKUA Radio, Canada’s oldest public radio station. Founded in 1927, CKUA radio was launched by the University of Alberta’s Department of Extension as a form of educational outreach through in-person lecture circuits in rural Alberta. Broadcasting initially from the University of Alberta campus, the station focused from the outset on literary readings, dramatic performances, music concerts, and academic lectures. University faculty continued to develop CKUA radio programming for over 40 years following CKUA’s departure from campus, first under the Radio Service, and then the Department of Radio and Television (RTV). The CKUA archives, both at its downtown Edmonton location and related archives of RTV held at the University of Alberta Archives, offer valuable media and textual records of the station’s role in shaping diverse creative cultures regionally and nationally. This talk will open up questions about the place of literary radio in audiovisual archives as sites of memory and cultural identity worthy of preservation and attention. 
Speakers
avatar for Sean Luyk

Sean Luyk

Digital Curation Librarian, University of Alberta
Sean Luyk is the Digital Curation Librarian at the University of Alberta Library where he is responsible for the University of Alberta’s Aviary repository, and is a co-investigator on the SpokenWeb project. Sean is an Affiliated Researcher of the Sound Studies Institute, and a Fellow... Read More →
Tuesday October 20, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Long Presentation, Online
  • Zoom password 289030

3:30pm EEST

Objects of Governance: Indigenous Community Archives, State Intervention, and the Struggle for Autonomy
Tuesday October 20, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
Indigenous First Nation archives in remote Australian homeland communities can represent autonomy and renewal but also dependency and loss. The Australian federal government’s Emergency Response in 2007 intensified these tensions. Military intervention, together with the systematic defunding and restructuring of locally controlled organisations, challenged the information sovereignty underpinning the early development of Indigenous First Nation community archives. But the effects of this state-induced crisis on culturally significant audiovisual archives received little attention in either official evaluations, or archival scholarship. Drawing on critical archival studies and long-term fieldwork in Northern Territory communities, the paper contends that during a crisis, the true extent community archives govern their own historical records is revealed. If community archives become objects of governance rather than agents of their own documentary heritage, it reframes preservation projects as political technologies. For communities dedicated to autonomous archives, self-determination becomes a struggle against the competing archival logics.
Speakers
RL

Robert Lazarus

Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
Dr Robert Lazarus is Senior Lecturer in the Robert Cripps Institute for Cultural Conservation at the University of Melbourne. His work focuses on the documentation and conservation of cultural heritage. Current research explores diverse archival practices in Australia, especially... Read More →
Tuesday October 20, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Long Presentation, In Person
  • global Y
  • Zoom password 289030

4:30pm EEST

Towards the Transmedia Archive: A Methodological Approach to Preserving Interactive Audiovisual Works in Colombia
Tuesday October 20, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
The preservation of cinema rests on a century of consolidated methodology, but the digital preservation of interactive and transmedia works still lacks clear frameworks. Their technological substrates are unstable by design.

This presentation reports on a methodological approach developed from the analysis of five Colombian interactive works (2014–2021): 4 Ríos, Reconstrucción, Crónica de una ciudad que fue, Entre luces y sombras, and El Cubo. A shared analytical template surfaced common vulnerabilities — obsolete browsers, defunct game engines, discontinued immersive hardware — across a spectrum ranging from active development to substantially compromised access. Wider surveys of Colombian interactive production from the same period document more advanced loss (Arciniegas, 2019).

A structural finding reframes the technical problem: although Colombia's legal-deposit framework formally covers digital heritage, no institution currently has the capacity or methodologies to archive interactive or transmedia works operationally, and none of the works in this corpus has been acquired by an audiovisual archive. The works face obsolescence and a methodological gap in institutional custody simultaneously.

Drawing on the Variable Media Approach, the theory of evolutive conservation, code resituation, OAIS-based long-term preservation, and work-defining properties, the presentation proposes a four-phase methodology — creation, early documentation, active conservation, and re-presentation/access — together with a typology of four archive instances: conservation, research, access and curation, and experimental or recreation. These instances can coexist within a single institution or be distributed across collaborating ones, and the methodology can be applied in full or in parts as institutional capacity allows.

The contribution is twofold: a transferable analytical template for diagnosing fragility, and an argument that archival standards for behaviour-driven works require importing methods from new-media art conservation and defining institutional custody before the works disappear.
Speakers
avatar for Henry Caicedo Caicedo

Henry Caicedo Caicedo

Independent consultant, audiovisual conservation and digital preservation, Independent researcher
Since 2019, coordinator of the Archivo Vivo y Memoria programme at the Gerencia de Artes Audiovisuales del Idartes – Cinemateca de Bogotá. Member of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) and the International Council on Archives (ICA). He holds... Read More →
Tuesday October 20, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Short Presentation, Online
  • Zoom password 289030
 
Wednesday, October 21
 

9:30am EEST

Building on the SADC Early Warning System for the Protection of Documentary Cultural Heritage in Africa’s Peace and War Contexts
Wednesday October 21, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
In peacebuilding and conflict prevention setups, early warning systems are in place – but with little or nothing to do with the documentary heritage despite the latter existing in the same risk environment characterized by political instability and conflict escalation. With no structured systems to identify vulnerable archives before conflict escalates, damage becomes reactive rather than preventive – and often irreversible. Using the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Regional Early Warning System as a reference point, this paper explores how Africa’s documentary cultural heritage can be safeguarded across peace and war contexts through early warning systems. It argues that current mechanisms for conflict monitoring exclude vulnerable heritage assets such as archives and audio-visual records. Drawing on several examples in Africa or elsewhere, with insights from relevant international relations political theories, the study highlights risks posed by political instability and digital warfare. It proposes integrating documentary heritage indicators into the existing early warning frameworks, if not designing separate, enhanced and functional documentary heritage-centered early warning system(s), anticipatory and resilient - across Africa’s peace-war spectrum.
Speakers
avatar for SHADRECK BAYANE

SHADRECK BAYANE

Privacy & Records Consultant & Researcher, Independent Consultant & Researcher
Shadreck Bayane is a Botswana-based certified Records Analyst and certified Privacy professional pursuing a Masters degree in Politics & International Relations, with interdisciplinary research interests spanning data protection, risk management, AI & digitization, diplomacy, and... Read More →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Short Presentation, In Person
  • Zoom password 289030

10:00am EEST

Safeguarding Audiovisual Memory in Fragile Contexts: Challenges and Strategies from Burkina Faso
Wednesday October 21, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
This presentation examines the challenges of safeguarding audiovisual archives in fragile and resource-constrained contexts, focusing on Burkina Faso. Audiovisual materials play a key role in preserving cultural identity, yet they face risks such as limited infrastructure, technological obsolescence, and lack of formal preservation systems.

Based on academic research and field observations, this presentation highlights how local actors develop adaptive strategies, including informal archiving practices and community-based preservation. It also emphasizes the importance of integrating risk preparedness and strengthening digital resilience.

By offering a West African perspective, this contribution aims to enrich global discussions on audiovisual preservation, resilience, and cultural sustainability.
Speakers
avatar for PARE Aboubacar Franck Hermann

PARE Aboubacar Franck Hermann

Master’s Student in Cinema and Audiovisual Studies, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
I am a Burkinabè audiovisual professional and a Master’s student in Cinema and Audiovisual Studies. My work is situated at the intersection of film, project management, and cultural development, with a particular focus on the role of audiovisual media in preserving cultural identity... Read More →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Short Presentation, Online
  • global Y
  • Zoom password 289030

10:30am EEST

A Case for Mandatory Deposit: Archiving the Mammoth Indian Film Industry
Wednesday October 21, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
What if the only version of a national award-winning film in a state/regional archive is a wantonly censored YouTube copy? How will we protect the cinema of the world’s largest film producer, which contributes to over 26% of the global film production, as per the World Intellectual Property Organisation?

With access and storage of films mainly being controlled by private players, a mandatory film deposit policy becomes important to save information from the profit-driven rules of the market and the preferences of the cultural majority. Besides the fear of some films being neglected as not worth preserving, the chances of modifying content (there is news of muting parts of dialogues, editing scenes out, and colour grading films differently for streaming platforms and theatrical re-releases) are high, too. To combat this, the government must introduce a two-tier approach to archiving, with every film appearing for copyright/exhibition certification, submitting a copy to the national film archive and the respective regional archive. Though most Indian states (28 in total) and some union territories have their own film industry, not all of them have an archive. Lacking a well-oiled production-to-archives pipeline becomes even more worrying in times of crisis when market disruption alters the usual venues for access and storage. A collaboration between the film fraternity, state governments, and the national government, focusing on the principle of LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), is essential. By keeping the onus of preserving films exclusively on for-profit private entities, India risks losing its film heritage.
Speakers
GR

Gayathri Rajkumar

Archivist, Prasad Corporation
I'm a graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation. I worked as a cataloguer with the National Film Archive of India and later as an assistant conservator at the Museum of Art and Photography, Bengaluru. I'm currently an archivist with Prasad Corporation.
Wednesday October 21, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Short Presentation, Online
  • global Y
  • Zoom password 289030

11:00am EEST

QC for Reformatted Audio Projects
Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
In archival settings, outsourced reformatting projects create an unusual melding between the industrial processes of mass digitization and the uniqueness of archival assets. Mass digitization methods prioritize saving both effort and cost, but institutions often have little time for a systematic approach to quality control. In this talk, we suggest an approach to quality control for reformatted audio that focuses on developing workflows that work for your institution. We will introduce a variety of time-tested tools at our disposal, from developing quality plans to acceptance sampling techniques. We will then suggest other ambits where QC can be applied, and touch on later developments in QC from projects such as Six Sigma and Lean. Finally, we will look at efforts to standardize perceived audio quality in other fields such as broadcasting (PESQ, PEAQ).
Speakers
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Marcos Sueiro Bal

Digital Collections Manager, Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College
Marcos Sueiro Bal is the Digital Collections Manager at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College in New York City, USA. Marcos is a member of the technical committees of the Association of Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) and IASA, and was part of the Collection Management... Read More →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Long Presentation, Online - TBD
  • Zoom password 289030

12:00pm EEST

Post-Disaster Catalogue: Photographic Plates of the National Museum in the Reconstruction of Audiovisual Memory
Wednesday October 21, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
O incêndio no Museu Nacional do Brasil em 2018 causou a destruição quase total de seu acervo, incluindo cerca de 11 mil negativos de vidro. Essa perda representou não apenas um dano material extremo, mas também uma profunda ruptura na memória científica e audiovisual da mais antiga instituição científica do país.

Por meio dos procedimentos de conservação e restauração, foi possível garantir a recuperação e a salvaguarda deste acervo. O presente trabalho analisa o processo de elaboração do catálogo dessas peças não como um produto editorial ou museográfico, mas como um instrumento arquivístico para a reconstrução da memória institucional por meio da imagem.

O catálogo confirmou que as placas são reproduções diretas dos negativos de vidro perdidos, de modo que as imagens originalmente produzidas como material auxiliar passaram a funcionar como documentos primários de testemunho após a destruição dos negativos originais.

Inserido no debate internacional sobre arquivos em tempos de paz e crise, o estudo demonstra que, em contextos de destruição, a função do arquivo se desloca da preservação integral dos suportes para a reconstrução a partir dos fragmentos sobreviventes. A experiência do Museu Nacional oferece, assim, lições aplicáveis a arquivos audiovisuais localizados em contextos de vulnerabilidade, conflito ou risco cultural, destacando o papel estratégico da imagem na salvaguarda da identidade, da autenticidade e da memória coletiva.

Ao analisar o catálogo de placas fotográficas como uma prática arquivística de reconstrução pós-catástrofe, este trabalho contribui para as discussões do IASA-BAAC sobre restauração de acervos, resiliência institucional e preservação da autenticidade audiovisual em cenários de destruição.
Speakers
avatar for Ana Luiza Castro do Amaral

Ana Luiza Castro do Amaral

Head of the Central Laboratory for Conservation and Restoration, Museu Nacional / UFRJ
Master’s degree in Social Memory from the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). Holds a Bachelor’s degree in Museology from the same institution. Currently serves as a Conservation Technician at the Museu Nacional of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro... Read More →
avatar for Jorge Dias da Silva Junior

Jorge Dias da Silva Junior

Head of the Section of Memory and Archives, Museu Nacional / UFRJ
Jorge Dias da Silva Junior is an archivist and holds a Master’s degree in Records and Archives Management from the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. He is Head of the Section of Memory and Archives at the Museu Nacional/UFRJ, where he coordinates preservation, reconfiguration... Read More →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Short Presentation, Online - TBD
  • Zoom password 289030

2:00pm EEST

IASA Technical Committee Meeting
Wednesday October 21, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Wednesday October 21, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Committee Meeting, In Person
  • Zoom password 289030
 
Thursday, October 22
 

11:00am EEST

Preservation of Archives and Library Materials During Civil Wars in Africa: Case of Democratic Republic of Congo and Mali
Thursday October 22, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
Archives and library manuscripts are expected to be safeguarded during periods of armed conflict. While a substantial body of literature has examined the destruction and loss of archival and library materials in conflicts such as the Ukraine–Russia war (Chorna, 2023) and in the Middle East (Moustafa, 2016), other studies, including those by Um (2020) and Luft (2020), have focused on the reconstruction of archives during and after the Holocaust. However, existing research on the destruction and recovery of library and archival manuscripts has largely concentrated on the Global North. In contrast, there is limited empirical research addressing this issue within the African context, with few exceptions such as Jethro and Karina (2024), who examined the case of the University of Cape Town. Furthermore, scholars such as Isola (2013) and Keese and Urbano (2023) highlight the lack of international media attention on the looting and destruction of archives and libraries in Africa, particularly in countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mali. Consequently, the preservation of libraries and archives remains an underexplored yet potentially transformative area for understanding the extent and impact of archival losses in Africa. This presentation intends to assess the preservation of archives both Democratic Republic of Congo and Mali.
Ist author - Dr Adv. Mphalane Makhura and 2nd author Dr Nkholedzeni Sidney Netshakhuma
Speakers
DA
avatar for Netshakhuma Nkholedzeni Sidney

Netshakhuma Nkholedzeni Sidney

Senior Lecturer Information Studies, University of Zululand
Dr Netshakhuma Nkholedzeni Sdiney completed PhD Information Studies at the University of South Africa specialising in Archives and Records Management. He is currently a Senior Lecturer Information Studies. He published extensively in Information, archives and records management... Read More →
Thursday October 22, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Short Presentation, Online
  • global Y
  • Zoom password 289030

1:30pm EEST

Context Lost, Trust Broken: Safeguarding Provenance in an Age of Audiovisual Misuse
Thursday October 22, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
Authentic photographs, sound recordings, and moving images are increasingly being detached from their original context and re‑released into the public sphere without explanation - or with deliberately false narratives. When this happens, even genuine archival materials can become instruments of manipulation, shaping public opinion or fueling social tension. This emerging challenge places new pressures on audiovisual archives, which must now respond not only as custodians of cultural memory but also as defenders of evidential integrity.

This panel proposes to examine how institutions can strengthen their capacity to validate provenance, preserve contextual information, and communicate authenticity in an era where audiovisual content can be easily appropriated, reframed, and weaponized.
Speakers
avatar for Viktorija Gardoviča

Viktorija Gardoviča

Archive expert, Latvian National Archives Latvian State Archive of Audiovisual documents
Archive expert at the Latvian State Archive of Audiovisual Documents, where she works in the Access and Inquiry Department, specializing in database monitoring, metadata creation, and maintaining classification systems. Victorija holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in library... Read More →
avatar for Natālija Lāce

Natālija Lāce

Archive expert, Latvian National Archives Latvian State Archive of Audiovisual documents
Expert at the Latvian State Archive of Audiovisual Documents, specializing in the description of audiovisual collections. Natālija has played an important role in developing strategies for integrating AI tools into archival processes. Her responsibilities include compiling archive... Read More →
Thursday October 22, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Short Presentation, In Person
  • global Y
  • Zoom password 289030

2:00pm EEST

Decentering Archival Authority: Informal Networks, Post-Custodial Practice, and the IASA Ambassador Framework
Thursday October 22, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
Contemporary archival discourse increasingly emphasizes the need to move beyond custodial paradigms toward more distributed, relational, and participatory models of stewardship. Within the field of sound and audiovisual heritage, this shift is particularly urgent, as preservation and access are shaped by global asymmetries in resources, infrastructure, and institutional authority. Mobilizing meaningful collaboration across such disparities remains a central challenge, especially where the outcomes of collective action are long-term and not immediately tangible. Within the framework of the IASA, emerging initiatives such as the Ambassador Committee, offer a productive forum for rethinking archival engagement through a post-custodial and decolonial lens.

Participants on the panel will critically examine structural and contextual barriers—including funding inequities, technological divides, and institutional silos—while also interrogating how such constraints intersect with questions of power, representation, and epistemic authority. Conceived as an open and dialogic forum, the panel invites participants to contribute to the co-development of strategies that strengthen informal networks of mutual support and exchange with a participatory platform for shaping the future direction of the Committee. We encourage attendees to actively engage in defining its forthcoming goals, priorities, and activities. This panel also serves as an entry point for broader engagement.
Speakers
avatar for Audra V. Adomenas

Audra V. Adomenas

President, Lithuanian Archives Project
Audra Adomenas is an archivist and nonprofit leader based in Chicago. She is the founder and president of the Lithuanian Archives Project (LAP), established in 2009 and incorporated in 2012 as a not-for-profit organization in the State of Illinois, USA, dedicated to preserving, digitizing... Read More →
PJ

Patrick J Midtlyng

President; Head of Recorded Sound Processing Unit Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division, IASA; Library of Congress
Patrick Midtlyng is the Head of the Recorded Sound Section at the Library of Congress’s National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, VA. He is responsible for the management and direction of the Recorded Sound Section and oversees all aspects of the National Collection... Read More →
avatar for Judith Opoku-Boateng

Judith Opoku-Boateng

Director, J. H. Kwabena Nketia Archives of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
Judith Opoku-Boateng is University Archivist at the University of Ghana, where she leads the development and coordination of the University’s archival systems. With over two decades of experience in audiovisual heritage preservation, she has led major initiatives in audiovisual... Read More →
avatar for Perla Olivia Rodriguez Reséndiz

Perla Olivia Rodriguez Reséndiz

Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Investigadora del Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas y de la Información de la UNAM.
Cuenta con estancias de formación en la Radiotelevisión Italiana (RAI) y la Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, España. Desde hace quince años es docente de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Ha diseñado y producido series radiofónicas, televisivas y multimedia con fin... Read More →
avatar for Dr. Marija Dumnić Vilotijević

Dr. Marija Dumnić Vilotijević

Senior Research Associate, Institute of Musicology SASA
Marija Dumnić Vilotijević holds MA and PhD in ethnomusicology from Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade. She is Senior Research Associate at Institute of Musicology of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She specialized in similar institutions of Austrian and... Read More →
Thursday October 22, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Long Presentation, Hybrid
  • Zoom password 289030

3:30pm EEST

Safeguarding the Audiovisual Heritage: Resilience, Identity, and Risk Management Approach to Preservation in Eastern and Southern African Audiovisual Archives
Thursday October 22, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
Preservation of audiovisual records is not merely a technical task, but a radical act of protecting African identity, memory, and historical fats during times of peace and conflict alike. This paper examines strategies for safeguarding audiovisual collections by aligning Eastern and Southern Africa regional preservation efforts with the focus on crisis preparedness and resilience. It specifically investigates the role of preservation practitioners and archivists in protecting "threatened collections” before, during, and after war or conflict" focusing on the ‘at risk’ heritage within Eastern and Southern African archival institutions. Using a quantitative research approach with a 62% response rate, the findings highlighted poor governance, absence of preservation planning, poor staff development, and that inadequate preservation frameworks have been made concrete by the socio-political volatility of regions prone to civil unrest, climate-induced crises, and environmental disaster. These risks demonstrate with clarity that the "piecemeal approach" critiqued in this paper is not merely a technical deficiency but a form of institutional vulnerability that renders irreplaceable audiovisual memory defenseless when crises strike. Through empirical results, a framework that integrates governance, preservation strategies, preservation planning, staff development, and the use of artificial intelligence tools with modern risk-management protocols was proposed. This will contribute to archival theory. The practical implication of this study is the enhanced regional cooperation within archival institutions of the Eastern and Southern Africa, and an example of a good archival practice for other institutions of other regions too.
Speakers
avatar for BN Ncala - ‘Nthabiseng’

BN Ncala - ‘Nthabiseng’

Lecturer at the University of South Africa in the Department of Information Science, in Gauteng, South Africa, University of South Africa, College of Human Sciences
Dr Ncala known as Nthabiseng, is a lecturer in Information Science at the Universityof South Africa (Unisa) since 2015. She holds a PhD in Information Science. Herresearch focused on the preservation management of audiovisual records atESARBICA. She earned her master’s in information... Read More →
Thursday October 22, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Short Presentation, In Person
  • Zoom password 289030
 
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