Audra Adomenas
Audra is a Certified Archivist, holds a Masters in Library and Information Science degree from Dominican University in River Forest, IL and is the founder and president of the Lithuanian Archives Project, a community archives actively engaged in the cultural preservation of the Lithuanian immigrant experience worldwide / in the diaspora. Audra strongly believes that the digitization and dissemination of digitized culturally significant materials is of utmost importance in our understanding of history and of our cultural narrative. She has IT skills and “people skills,” is an experienced project manager and volunteer coordinator and works effectively with a diverse population of individuals. Audra enjoys presenting at conferences as well as engaging with the community on archival projects. After Audra was nominated to be the Central United States Ambassador for IASA in 2018, Audra’s archival perspective shifted from being focused primarily on the global Lithuanian diaspora community to the global archives community. Currently, Audra serves on the Diversity Task Force for IASA and is actively engaged in a project to “Keep African Archives in Africa,” a project that provides professional expertise to audiovisual archivists in the developing world and encompasses all archives in Sub-Saharan Africa with the ultimate goal of setting up effective digitization programs in Sub-Saharan Africa as well as connect audiovisual archivists worldwide into a network for resource and information sharing. Audra is also an active member of the Midwest Archives Conference (MAC), a past board member of the Chicago Area Archivists (CAA) and currently serves on the board of the Chicago Area Religious Archivists (CARA) and spends her free time advocating the benefits of IASA membership and participation to her Midwest USA colleagues.
Benjamin Alimi
Benjamin Alimi has begun his career at Titra Film, before joining UGC International
and then TF1 DA as a Technical Manager. He joined Hiventy in 2013 and has a strong
experience in the field of archives, film restoration and film processing. He has
supervised the restoration of many French and international film masterpieces.
Filip Allberg
Filip Allberg is a Systems Developer at Humlab. He studied Computing Science at Umeå University,
before transitioning into a career within the financial tech industry that culminated in a senior
development position at NASDAQ.
Prior to this, Allberg spent numerous years working as a graphic designer and communicator, and he
now leverages the two disciplines in unison to create technology that’s more sympathetic to other
humans than it otherwise would have been.
Anthony Allen
Anthony is a sound engineer from Scotland. He began working on the New Phonograph project
shortly after moving to Prague in January of 2018. He manages audio transfer and digitization, as
well as more general project-related duties, such as development of the project’s digitization
workflow tool, reaching out to international collaborators and defining metadata needs. In
collaboration with the National Technical Library, he is also involved in the migration and redesign
of the Virtual National Phonotheque, an online discographic database and access tool.
Eleonore Alquier
Eleonore Alquier is Head of Acquisition and Preservation in the Collections division of French
audiovisual Institute (INA). She’s in charge of the refoundation of the collections management IT
system and of the collections acquisition strategy, coordinating transversal projects connected to
audiovisual description and conservation. She graduated from the French Ecole nationale des
chartes (2005-2009) and Heritage management Institute (Institut national du patrimoine, 2009-
2010). She began working at the French National Archives (2010-2013), first as Head of Modern
Archives, and then as Coordinator of the relocation and redeployment of the Archives into a new
building. She was then Head of the Records and Archives Office at the French Social Ministries
(Labor, Health, Youth and Sports (2013-2015)), where she was responsible for the collecting
policy applied to political records produced by the ministers and their advisers. She’s also an
active member of the International Council on Archives (ICA) and member of the editorial board
of IASA.
Li Ang
Technical support engineer from Copyright Assets Centre of Shanghai Media Group
(SMG)，Shanghai Audio-Visual Archives. He focused on the application and research of artificial
intelligence in audio and video media assets. He has experience in Computer-Vision such as face
recognition, object detection and image super-resolution. He participated in drafting the White
Paper on the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Radio and Television published by National
Radio and Television Administration of China.
Nicholas Bergh
Nicholas Bergh received his B.A. and M.A. in ethnomusicology from UCLA where he specialized
in the history of recording technology and sound archiving. During this time, he was also fortunate
to be mentored by engineers who worked in the earliest decades of optical sound, disc, and
magnetic technologies. After spending a number of years doing digital restoration work, Nicholas
started Endpoint Audio Labs in 2003 to focus on improving the quality of sound transfers before
restoration. Endpoint has become known for both unique transfer technologies as well as using
historical research to inform transfer decisions. Projects range from major 70mm studio films such
SOUND OF MUSIC and MY FAIR LADY to the earliest Vitaphone films of the 1920s.
George Blood
George Blood graduated from the University of Chicago (1983) with a Bachelor of Arts in Music Theory.
– The only student of pianist Marc-André Hamelin.
– Recorded over 4,000 live events since 1982
– Recording Engineer for The Philadelphia Orchestra for 21 years
– Recorded and edited some 600 nationally syndicated radio programs
– Recorded or produced over 250 CDs, 6 of which have been nominated for Grammy Awards
– An active teacher and presenter at conferences presented on research into workflow, best practices, metadata, authentication, and interchangeability of digital information
– Served on standards committees for MXF AS-07 (now SMPTE RDD48), and is a writer two chapters for IASA TC06. Mr. Blood and his wife, Martha, have five children and five grandchildren. An unapologetic preservationist, at the end of a day of Preserving the Sound and Motion of History, he goes home to his 1768 house where he practices harpsichord and reads books on paper.
Karen Cariani
Karen Cariani is The David O. Ives Executive Director of the WGBH Media Library and Archives
and WGBH Project Director for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, a collaboration with
the Library of Congress with a mission to preserve and provide a centralized web portal for
access to historical content created by public media over the past 70+ years. Karen has 30 plus
years of television production, project and archival management experience and was project
director for recent projects a such as Improving Access to Time-Based Media through
Crowdsourcing & Machine Learning, National Digital Stewardship Residency, National
Educational Television Collection Catalog Project, and Building Infrastructure and Capacity for
the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. She serves on the National Stewardship Digital
Alliance (NDSA) Coordinating Committee. She is active in the archive community and
professional organizations and passionate about the use of media archives and digital library
collections for education.
Jean-Hueges Chenot
Jean-Hugues Chenot graduated in 1986 and 1998 from French Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole
Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications. He joined INA where he developed software for 3D
modelling from range images and virtual studios projects. He is now the manager of the INA audio and
video processing and restoration research team. Jean-Hugues Chenot was involved in a number of
European research projects, related to audio and video digitization, preservation, digital restoration,
and large-scale fingerprinting and content tracking. He is the project manager of the Saphir optical
analog audio disc recording playback project.
Oliver Danner
Since 2010 Oliver Danner works with analog optical soundtracks for the federal German film
archives Bundesarchiv and since 2016 operates the Resonances soundtrack scanner. He is a
sound engineer for 19 years and holds an MA degree in conservation and restoration of
audiovisual cultural assets as well as a BSc in media production and -technology. His master's
thesis titles " The Scanning of Analog Optical Soundtracks as part of Film Preservation" (HTW
Berlin 2015).
Thierry Delannoy
THIERRY DELANNOY, Head of Restoration at Hiventy, has worked since 1988 in scanning
35 mm feature film, archive, and for ten years in film restoration for theaters and
festivals, such as Cannes Classics, Imagine Ritrovata, Toute la mémoire du monde.
Hiventy is a laboratory that perpetuates the tradition of photochemical fabrication while
being at the cutting edge of digital technology dedicated to film restoration.
Raymond Drewry
Raymond Drewry is Principal Scientist at MovieLabs and Chief Architect at EIDR. His current interests are identifiers and identification, linked data and metadata, and distributed and federated systems, especially for film, television, and the broader entertainment industry. He has held management and technical roles at Liberate Technologies, Sybase, Digital Equipment Corporation, and Microsoft. He has worked on digital cable TV networks, multimedia databases, graphics hardware and software, large-scale robotics for mechanical-industrial performance pieces, and version 1.0 of Microsoft Windows. He is Vice Chair of the DOI Foundation, which manages ISO 26324, the Digital Object Identifier standard, and has a BA in Classics (Latin) and Computer Science from Yale University.
Jon W. Dunn
Jon W. Dunn is Assistant Dean for Library Technologies in the Indiana University Bloomington
Libraries, where he oversees IT development and operations, including technical support,
systems administration, software development, digital preservation, and digital collections
services. He has been involved in the development of digital library systems for audio and video
for over twenty years and currently serves as co-project director for the Avalon Media System, an
open source digital repository software system for audio and video access supported in part by
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Institute of Museum and Library Services, and principal
investigator for the Mellon-funded Audiovisual Metadata Platform (AMP) project. He serves on the
steering committee for Indiana University’s Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative and is
co-chair of the steering group for the Samvera open source digital repository community. He also
co-chairs the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Consortium’s Audio/Video
Technical Specification Group.
Dan Fischer
Dan Fischer is a Senior Developer at PortalMedia in Monona, Wisconsin. He has over 15 years of
development experience working with forensic file format analysis and classification, e-commerce logistics and algorithms, as well as data science. Dan holds an M.S. in Computer Science from DePaul University, as well as a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Lars Gaustad
Lars Gaustad is head of moving image preservation at the National Library of Norway. The library
holds the heritage collection of moving images in Norway as well as being responsible for
handling the legal deposit of film and television. He has chaired the Technical Commission of
IASA from 2001 to the present.
Franz Hoeller
Franz Hoeller is the managing director of HS-ART Digital Service GmbH and the product
manager for the DIAMANT-Film Restoration Software. He is working also as trainer and
consultant in the fields of digital film restoration. As project manager he was involved in several
international research projects in the digital media area. He has a master degree in Telematics
from the technical university in Graz and has worked as R&D software engineer in the fields of
image restoration and processing at Joanneum Research in Austria and Pandora-International in
the UK and at HS-ART Digital.
Jörg Houpert
Jörg Houpert studied electrical engineering at the University of Bremen, with the focus on digital signal processing and psychoacoustics. In order to focus on international media archive activities, Houpert founded in 2005 ‘Cube-Tec International’. In his capacity as the Technical Director of this company, his interest is to introduce new technologies for the safeguarding of the worldwide audiovisual cultural heritage and to create better solutions for media workflows. In IASA Houpert is a long-standing member of the Technical Committee, in FIAT/IFTA Houpert is an active member of the Preservation and Migration Committee. There is also a long relation as a sponsor of FIAF activities. Since 2009 he is an active member of the SMPTE standards committee working groups. Houpert helps to harmonize media technology at European Broadcasting Union for more than 20 years. His pioneering work has led to working relationships with most prestigious and demanding media technology institutions around the globe.
Andy Irving
Andy Irving is a Solutions Architect at the British Library (BL), where he has worked on scaling the digital capability of the library since 2012. He has been involved in a wide range of areas, from implementing large-scale automated workflows for ingest of born-digital materials, to the digitization workflows that account for the 220million+ images available through the BL’s IIIF endpoints. He has been working on audio ingest, preservation and access since 2014.
James Lindner
Jim Lindner is an internationally respected authority on the preservation and migration of electronic media. Jim pioneered many of the techniques now commonly used for videotape restoration and migration to file workflows. He has lectured widely on and written about media preservation for the past twenty-five years and has served on a variety of international media-associated boards and organizations for many years. While Jim’s first awards were as a filmmaker, he went on to receive many awards, first for his pioneering work in computer animation and later for his work in media preservation.
Bertram Lyons
Bertram specializes in the acquisition, management, and preservation of documentary, research, and cultural heritage collections. For fifteen years, Bert has worked as an archivist for extensive archives, first at the Alan Lomax Archive and most recently at the American Folklife Center (AFC) at the Library of Congress. He has developed tools, policies, and partnerships around the development and management of analog and digital archival collections. Bert is active with professional archival organizations including the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (Executive Board Member and Editor of IASA publications) and the Society of American Archivists. He has also received certification from the Academy of Certified Archivists and is a graduate of the Archives Leadership Institute. He holds an MA in museum studies with a focus in American studies and archival theory from the University of Kansas.
Etienne Marchand
Graduated from EICAR in 2008 after a sound engineer training, Etienne Marchand has since been working on a great variety of archive documents – audio, video and film – and on every aspect of the technical workflows : assessment, cleaning, repairs of the mediums; digitizing using manual and automatic processes; restoration and color grading; quality control; conversions and transcoding; media delivery; digital archiving. Etienne joined INA in 2015 as operations executive within the Preservation, Delivery and Digital Archiving service. He’s in charge of digitizing television and radio archives, quality control and content delivery.
Lyndon Nixon
Dr. Lyndon J B Nixon is the CTO of MODUL Technology GmbH. He also holds the position of Assistant Professor in the New Media Technology group at MODUL University. He has been researching in the semantic multimedia domain since 2001. His PhD (2007) was on automatic generation of multimedia presentations using semantics. He has been active in many European and Austrian projects including in the role of Scientific Coordinator (LinkedTV) and Project Coordinator (ReTV). He has co-chaired over 40 events complemented by 27 invited talks, 8 book chapters, 6 journal articles and 88 refereed publications. Currently he focuses his research on content analysis of image and video in social networks, semantic annotation and linking of media fragments, and combining annotations and data analytics in prediction and recommendation for TV programming.
Johan Oomen
Johan Oomen is head of Research and Heritage Services at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and researcher at the User-Centric Data Science group of the VU University Amsterdam. He and his group are working on research projects that focus on digital heritage in all its facets. He has worked for the British Universities Film and Video Council and commercial broadcaster RTL Nederlands. He is a board member of the Europeana Association, the EUscreen Foundation, and the PublicSpaces Foundation. He is also an advisor to the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and the Dutch National Research Council for Cultural Heritage, and is co-chair of The Netherlands Heritage Network.
Gautier Poupeau
Since 2001, Gautier Poupeau has been working in the field of data management. He started his career as an engineer for the Ecole nationale des chartes in Paris, and then contributed to several major data projects in the public sector, working as a contractor within private companies. He spent the last 4 years at Ina (national institute for audiovisual in France) dealing with data architecture and data workflows, as a member of the IT team. His weblog, Les petites cases ( http://www.lespetitescases.net ), provides insights on the expertise he built on since
2006.
James Pustejovsky
James Pustejovsky is the TJX Feldberg Chair in Computer Science at Brandeis University, where he is also Chair of the Linguistics Program, Chair of the Computational Linguistics MS Program, and Director of the Lab for Linguistics and Computation. He received his B.S. from MIT and his Ph.D. from UMASS at Amherst. He has worked on computational and lexical semantics for twenty five years and is chief developer of Generative Lexicon Theory. He has been committed to developing linguistically expressive lexical data resources for the CL and AI communities. Since 2002, he has also been involved in the development of standards and annotated corpora for semantic information in language. Pustejovsky is chief architect of TimeML and ISO-TimeML, a recently adopted ISO standard for temporal information in language, as well as ISO-Space, a specification for spatial information in language. Under NSF and Mellon Foundation funding, he has been co-developer with Nancy Ide of Vassar College of the Language Application Grid (LAPPS). This is an open, interoperable web service platform for natural language processing (NLP) research and development. The LAPPS provides facilities to select from hundreds of NLP tools to create workflows, composite services, and applications, and to evaluate, reproduce, and share them with others. With recently awareded funding from the Mellon Foundation, he is currently partnering with WGBH to develop CLAMS, a platform of NLP tools for multimedia (A/V), to help archivists with search, navigation, and discovery over their holdings. Pustejovsky has authored and/or edited numerous books on theoretical and computational linguistics, annotation theory and machine learning, and temporal spatial reasoning: http://pusto.com/.
Rosemarie O. Roque
Rosemarie O. Roque is currently the only IASA associate member from the Philippines. She is also an associate individual member of the South-East Asia Pacific Audio-Visual Archives Association (SEAPAVAA). She is an active member of the Society of Filipino Archivists for Film (SOFIA). She currently serves as its representative to the National Committee on Archives (NCA) of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) (first term: 2017-2019, second term: 2020-2022), where she currently holds the position of assistant secretary of the Executive Committee. Rose Roque earned her BA Communication Research and MA Araling Pilipino degrees from the University of the Philippines in Diliman. She works as Assistant Professor IV at the Department of Filipinology of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), the national polytechnic university in the country. Rose Roque was a student of the 2013 Film Restoration School Asia organized by the National Museum of Singapore, World Cinema Foundation, L’Immagine Ritrovata, and Cinetica Bologna. Last September 2017, she was one of the presenters during the Sandaan: International Conference on the Centennial of Philippine Cinema, where she presented her paper on Sineng Bayan: Political Filmmaking in the Philippine (Martial Law and Political Films panel) culled from her MA thesis on the same subject. She was also one of the speakers in the EYE Conference 2018 held last May in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, an annual conference organized by EYE Filmmuseum, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, and University of Amsterdam. In October 2018, she reechoed her study on AsiaVisions as one of presenters in the 6th Archives Congress organized by the NCCA which centered on the theme on archives and social justice. She also was one of the presenters in the Asia Pacific Cinema Documentary Heritage Conference hosted by the Quezon City Film Development Council and organized by the UNESCO Office in Jakarta, Philippine National Commission for UNESCO, NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asia-Pacific Cinema), FDCP (Film Development Council of the Philippines), Asia Culture Center, UP Film Institute, and Center for New Cinema. She is also conducting archival research on Philippine-related (Marcos era) AV materials found in European archives, particularly in the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision and Les archives, Cinematheque francaise. Rose Roque, together with UP SLIS professor and film archivist Bono Olgado, co-organized the Community Archiving Workshop Manila (CAW Manila), initiated in April 2017 for SEAPAVAA with New York University Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (NYU-MIAP) and the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA).
Peter Schallauer
Peter Schallauer is R&D and product coordinator for audiovisual preservation solutions at JOANNEUM RESEARCH’s Smart Media Solutions research area. He has been working with JOANNEUM RESEARCH since 1995 as scientific and development coordinator creating numerous digital video/movie technologies and systems. Technologies for high quality digital film restoration (DIAMANT-Film), automatic movie and video content analysis, content description, information mining and content based retrieval, efficient digitisation and documentation of audiovisual archives, semantic analysis of video, traffic video analysis and efficient human computer interaction. During recent years he is focussing his activities on signal based video and movie quality assessment solutions for improving the efficiency of archive digitisation, restoration and production processes (VidiCert). He is actively involved in relevant standardisation activities (EBU QC, EBU/AMWA FIMS QA). He coordinated the EC FP7 project DAVID– Digital AV Media Damage Prevention and Repair.
Pelle Snickars
Pelle Snickars is a professor of media and communication studies—a chair directed towards the digital humanities—at Umeå University, Sweden, where he is also affiliated with the digital humanities hub, Humlab. His research is situated at the intersection between media studies, media history and the digital humanities. Snickars is currently in charge of two major research projects: Welfare State Analytics. Text Mining and Modeling Swedish Politics, Media & Culture, 1945-1989 (Swedish Research Council) and Digital Models. Techno-historical collections, digital humanities & narratives of industrialization (Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities). Snickars is also the co-ordinator of the national research program, DIGARV—Digitisation and accessibility of cultural heritage (Swedish Research Council), and involved as PI in the EU-funded research project, European History Reloaded: Curation and Appropriation of Digital Audiovisual Heritage (EU JPI Cultural Heritage).
Marjolein Steeman
Marjolein Steeman is a specialist on data management and has been associated with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision on several projects as a data- and business analyst. Recently she developed a framework for a Preservation Metadata Dictionary, based on the international PREMIS-standard. Her focus is on enhancing the sustainability of the archive, by creating practical solutions for asset management and data governance. She is a member of the PREMIS Editorial Committee.
Silvester Stöger
Silvester Stöger is a project manager in the context of Archive Asset Management (AAM) at NOA
Archive and leads projects with clients like Sharjah Broadcast Authority, Bulgarian National
Radio, or Radio Television of Serbia, including the establishment of digital archive systems,
design of metadata schemes, and planning of database migrations. He holds an art degree of the
University of Applied Arts Vienna and attended a masters program for Image Science and Digital
Collection Management at the Danube University Krems. During his past engagements with the
Film Archive Austria, Arri Munich, or the F.W. Murnau Foundation he gathered extensive
knowledge about digital film restoration and real-world archiving needs.
Adam Tovell
Adam Tovell is the Head of Sound & Vision Technical Services at the British Library and looks after a team of engineers and preservation specialists busy safeguarding the UK’s national sound collection through digitization and digital preservation.
Giorgio Trumpy
Giorgio Trumpy is a postdoc at the University of Zurich. He studied Conservation Science in Florence, and received his PhD in Scientific Photography from the University of Basel (2013). For two years (2014-2016), Trumpy was a postdoc fellow at National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. His work focuses on Spectroscopy and Imaging Science for conservation of cultural heritage.
Brian Wheeler
Brian Wheeler designed and implemented the post-digitization processing system for the MDPI project. Since MDPI started production in 2015, the system has verified, processed, and stored more than 330,000 audio, video and film objects — almost 12 petabytes of content — with nearly zero downtime. When Brian isn’t working on MDPI he’s researching ways to make the IU Library processing systems better.
Nathaniel Kwaku Worlanyo Kpogo
Nathaniel Kwaku Worlanyo Kpogo is a Senior Research Assistant at the J.H Kwabena Nketia Archives, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. He holds a Bachelor of Art degree in Geography and Archaeology. His immense experience with sound engineering begun in 2004. He has handled audio in its diverse forms including recording, mixing and producing audio messages. He has experience in physical cleaning and handling of the audio digital materials. At the inception of the MAARA project at the Nketia Archives in 2014, Nathaniel was engaged as the technical person for digitalization where he produces audio materials for access and master copies, manages the technical section of the database, maintains all archive digitization equipment, as well as ensuring the quality and integrity of audio digitized files. He learnt best practices from the project managers. Owning to this experience, he has successfully digitized over five hundred (500) reel-to-reels and counting. When tapes and reels require special attention, he is skilful of treating the physical material to obtain the audio from the tapes and reels. The special attention has included using the vacuum to suck the shed off the reels, repairing mouldy tapes, splicing tapes and repairing twisted and lose reels. In 2017, Nathaniel was a participant as well as a resource person at the SOIMA training workshop organized by ICCROM and hosted at the J.H. Kwabena Nketia Archives. He served as a Local committee member for the IASA 2018 Conference in Ghana.
Tristan Zondag
Tristan is an IT architect at NISV. He has been working in the M& E industry for 19 years and has witnessed the transformation to file-based play-out at a Dutch broadcast company, working on encoding and transcoding files in the age when the resolution was 176×144 pixels up to today’s 8K resolution. Later, he specialized more towards archival and preservation, large scale tape infrastructure and MAM systems.
Irfan Zuberi
Irfan Zuberi is the Project Manager, National Cultural Audiovisual Archives, the world’s first ISO 16363:2012 certified Trustworthy Digital Repository, at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, India. He is presently Chair, National Archives Section and Member, Editorial Board at the
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives. Irfan holds a Master of Philosophy Degree from Delhi School of Economics with a thesis titled ‘Theodor W. Adorno’s Theory of the ‘Culture Industry’: A Critical Appraisal in the Context of North Indian Classical Music’ (2007). He has over fifteen (15) years of work experience in the domain of archiving, having successfully completed projects at Ravi Shankar Institute for Music and Performing Arts (2002-2005), Aga Khan Trust for Culture (2009-2013) and NaadSaagar Archives and Documentation Society for South Asian Music
(2009 onwards). Irfan has published widely and presented papers at international conferences on subjects ranging from ethnography and musicology to audiovisual archiving, digital preservation and intellectual property rights in the domain of the performing arts.