rethinking television histories, kings college, london, 19th-21st april 2007

the presentation & programme as (pdf) file

showing old television to students is a culture shock for them because there is  a difference in production, surface & deep attitude – nostalgia? memory?

archive footage offers a unique access to the complexities of history
see BIRTH television archive

video active has a catalogue application, metadata & transcoding, thesarus module, multilinguality, launch in nov 2007 videoactive.eu

Video Active’s content selection strategy will be informed by the input of a wide range of television history scholars. For this purpose a conference will be held on 19-21 April 2007 at the Strand campus of King’s College, Universty of London.The conference is being organised by the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, in co-operation with the Department of Media and Representation at Utrecht University as part of the Video Active project. The conference will play a crucial role in informing and influencing the development of the project’s content selection and editorial strategies.
Rethinking Television Histories: Digitising Europe’s Televisual Heritage

see also:

the harlem digital archive
archival.tv