[cma-l] Call for Participation! “Radio Archives in European Community Media” International Conference on Open Radio Archives on 4-6 June 2015 in Halle/Saale (Germany)

[Tamar Millen]

Call for Participation!

“Radio Archives in European Community Media” International Conference on
Open Radio Archives on 4-6 June 2015 in Halle/Saale (Germany)

We want to encourage people involved in community media to present current
broadcast and multi-media archiving practices at their stations and to
generate ideas for an institutional structure for European community radio
archives.

Community media across Europe face many of the same challenges in creating
and managing archives of broadcast content. Every minute, they produce and
broadcast an enormous amount of programming. But how is this content
preserved and used after its broadcast? Most community broadcasters have
created their own methodologies for preserving and cataloguing their
programs: writing their own algorithms, adapting software to their needs,
or developing complex file structures on hard disks, servers and cloud
services. To make past broadcasting accessible to the public, some stations
created systems to automatically upload programmes to their website or
developed online archives which can be browsed or searched by program,
subject or tag; others make use of collaborative archiving platforms like
the Cultural Broadcasting Archive, or administer different “satellite”
websites on specific subjects or aimed at specific communities.



*Present and share your infrastructure solutions: *At the conference we
would like to explore and exchange different ways in which community media
can preserve, use and share broadcast content. What tools and
infrastructures to archive audiovisual material are best suited for
community media? Which formats did your station find or create to present
audiovisual content online? Which innovative techniques or tools did you
develop or are you still looking for?



*Archiving methods and archiving culture: *A major challenge in building
community media archives is how to cultivate archiving as an essential part
of radio making. Many programme makers are focused foremost on their “on
air” show. What are the best ways to engage them in archiving their
programs and sharing them with online listeners? Who undertakes what task:
uploading programmes, adding descriptions and tags, promoting them on
social media? Are programs uploaded whole or split into specific items,
with or without music, and how is the material edited?



*The responsibility to archive: *How can community archives integrate
multilingualism? How can online archiving support programme exchange within
Europe? What importance do analogue, physical archives have in the digital
age, and how can community media secure and digitize them? How can
community media archives unlock historical material about community life
and social movements in user-friendly ways? Not least, we encourage
proposals dealing with the question of copyright regulations and the role
of open software and open knowledge.





*For whom?*

We invite and encourage programme makers and coordinators from European
community media, radio activists, researchers, programmers and technicians
to participate in the conference and submit proposals.



*Formats of Presentation*

We invite proposals for papers, workshops, discussions, presentations and
radio shows on any subject related to “Radio Archives in European Community
Media”. You can send in proposals in German, English or Spanish.

Proposals that engage the audience in active participation and discussion,
or in trying out or evaluating archiving tools or strategies, are
especially welcome. Participants can contribute to the conference in a
variety of ways, not just by presenting a paper or hosting a discussion in
30-minute slots, or conducting a training or hosting a world café in max. 1
hour slots, but also by publishing a text in the conference reader,
broadcasting or producing a radio show during the conference, or creating
posters, web features or any other content you find suitable.



*Submission*

Please send proposals by *January 31, 2015*, to info at livingarchives.eu.
Describe your proposed activity on not more than one page (including title
and type of presentation) and include a short biography.

Presenters of accepted proposals will be informed by February 28, 2015.
They will be invited to the conference and reimbursed for travel and
accommodation expenses.



The conference will be live streamed. For further information please check

our Website: http://livingarchives.eu or

on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/communitymediaarchives

-- 
Tamar Millen
Arts Coordinator
Community Media Association
15 Paternoster Row
Sheffield
S1 2BX

0114 2795219

http://www.commedia.org.uk/join-cma/
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