Call for Papers: The Birth of Military Cinemas (1914-1930) Conference
15 December 2016
The international conference "The Birth of Military Cinemas (1914-1930)" (Namur and Brussels, 29-30 November and 1 December 2017) aims to analyse the birth of the military cinematographic services that ermerged in the world at the turn of the years 1914-1918.
Registration open for conference "Digitisation of heritage and orphan works"
14 November 2016
The Orphan Works Directive, adopted in 2012, set out to foster digitisation and unlock Europe’s cultural heritage for education, research and other cultural purposes, but how does it work in practice?
Request for proposals: Technical service provider for EFG
22 September 2016
As a partner of the Europeana Digital Service Infrastructure, Deutsches Filminstitut is seeking a subcontractor to carry out ingests of metadata from 15 European film archives into the database behind the online portal European Film Gateway. Deadline for submissions is 5 October 2016. Read more about the RFP here.
Today, the FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission (CDC) published the FIAF Moving Image Cataloguing Manual. The manual is available for free in PDF format here. The result of many years of labor and collaboration with numerous professionals in the moving image field, the manual is more than a simple revision of The FIAF Cataloguing Rules for Film Archives (1991).