AMIA Member Updates

Creatasphere DAM Symposium: AMIA Member Discount

The Createasphere Digital Asset Management Conference, February 17 - 18th, 2010 at the Universal Hilton, in Universal City.

The conference and expo explores the urgent global issues of digital asset management in the entertainment and media sector.  As global spending on DAM increases to over $1Billion by 2014, rapid growth will bring tremendous opportunity along with unforeseen threats to entertainment and media organizations.  This game changing transition is driving rapid adoption of new technologies, project development, workflows, and security protocols within the industry. 

The Createasphere DAM professional conference and expo is specifically designed to bring togehter technology leaders, entertainment and media organizations and an interdisciplinary group of practitioners to define the future and current best practices specific to entertainment broadcast, gaming, advertisting and media.  Visit (http://www.createasphere.com/damem_february/) for a full description of the conference which features an outstanding lineup of thought leaders and experts in  digital asset management.

AMIA members receive a 20% discount, enter code DAMIA.

AMIA 2010 Call for Proposals

 

AMIA 2010 Call for Proposals

 

In 2010, the Association of Moving Image Archivists and the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives will come together for the first time in a joint conference. The AMIA/IASA Conference will provide an opportunity for colleagues and those interested in all aspects of the field to meet, share information and discover mutual solutions.

 

The AMIA Conference Committee invites submissions for session proposals for the 2010 AMIA/IASA Conference in Philadelphia, PA. We encourage you to participate in the creation of a program that includes a wide variety of topics, cutting-edge discussions of technology, a balance of theory and practice, and invite new ideas and concepts that may stimulate additional interest, involvement and educational benefit.

 

The conference will offer four parallel session tracks, two on typically AMIA-issues, one on typically IASA-issues, and one with subjects of common interest (attendees from both AMIA and IASA will be free to attend all sessions). Please note that each track has a submission deadline.

 

The Conference Committee encourages papers, panels and posters on all issues to do with sound and audiovisual archives, but especially on the following sub-themes: Archives, Libraries and Museums. Does convergence work? Challenges of Multimedia in archives; The user and the archivist (convergence of roles); Social networks (converging to where the user is); One nation, one world catalogue (convergence of access); Turning archives into assets; Collection preservation and workflows; Open Access and Standards; Organizations and associations (convergence of colleagues); Rights in a converging world.

 

In addition, 2010 is AMIA's 20th Anniversary and proposals for AMIA track sessions may address the 20th Anniversary

 

More information about session and workshop proposals can be found here:  www.AMIAConference.com, or here:  www.amia-iasa-2010.com.

 

 

AMIA Election Results

AMIA Members,

 

The results of the recent AMIA election have been tabulated.  All of the Candidates have been informed of the results as have the current AMIA Board of Directors.

 

The AMIA Election Committee wishes to thank all of the members who consented to run for office this year as well as all those whom the committee members talked to about becoming a candidate.  It is an obvious but true statement that AMIA would not be the organization that it is without the past and present volunteers who devote their time and talent to our organization.

 

The results of the election are as follows:

 

Wendy Shay was elected to the position of AMIA President and Director of the Board.

 

Peter Brothers, Colleen Simpson and Tom Regal were elected as AMIA Directors of the Board.

 

All of the above elected officers will start their terms on February 15, 2010.

 

The AMIA Code of Ethics question was approved by 81% of the voters, with 10% voting in the negative and 10% abstaining (total of 101% caused by rounding).

 

The quorum of 25% was met by 31.33% of the eligible voters casting ballots.  This number represents an increase over the percentage of votes cast in the 2008 election which was 29.54% of the eligible voters.

 

 

Dick Fauss

AMIA Elections Committee