Russian, Italian and Spanish translations of TC 03 are now available on the website under special publications. This adds to the English, German, French and Swedish versions already available. Huge thanks to Dietrich Schüller for his tireless efforts to finalise these. Thanks too to:

Fernando Osorio Alarcón, Brenda Coello Valdés, Maria Guadalupe Ávila Sánchez, Chris Clark, George Brock-Nannestad and Helga Thiel for their contribution to the Spanish translation;
Veronica Soldani, Alberto Gaetti, Roberto Neri, Simone Conforti and Stefano S. Cavaglieri for their contribution to the Italian translation;
Victor Denisov, Natalia Svetozarova, Ingo Kolasa and Wulf Plotkin for their contribution to the Russian translation.

40th IASA conference in Athens 2009

The IASA 2009 Conference, Towards a new kind of archive? The digital philosophy in audiovisual archives, will take place in Athens, Greece hosted by the Hellenic National Audiovisual Archive. The conference website will be available soon.

UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage

Many of us organised events to acknowledge the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on 27 October 2008. See some of the plans on the CCAAA website. Other notices in have come from:

Judith Gray (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress) who reports that Alec McLane, the curator for Wesleyan's World Music Archives made an announcement of the World Day at the general membership meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology (Sunday the 26th) (The SEM hosted its 53rd annual conference at Wesleyan University, Connecticut from 25 to 28 October. Although only about half the registrants attended the general meeting, this number still represented around 450 individuals.
Gunnel Jönsson (Swedish Broadcasting Resources) reports that staff celebrated with chocolate cake and non-alcoholic cider. The customers received candy.

Inaugural James A Lindner Prize announced

The inaugural recipients of the James A. Lindner Prize are the team behind the Sound Archive Project, based in the Electro-Mechanical Research Group in the School of Engineering Sciences at the University of Southampton, UK. The individuals receiving the award are Professor J.W. McBride (Group Leader and Main Investigator), Professor M. Hill (Co-investigator), Dr. P. Boltryk (Research Staff), Mr. A. Nasce, (Research Student) and Miss Z. Zhao (Research Student).
The aim of the Sound Archive Project is to investigate non-contact scanning of archived mechanically recorded sound recordings, such that the encoded sound can be preserved and reproduced in a digital format. The work is timely and critical, since at present, many sound carriers such as early wax cylinders, are unstable and at risk of deterioration. A non-contact method of sound reproduction ensures that no pressure is exerted on these fragile artifacts. The work done by members of the Project team is original, very relevant, and will have considerable impact on the restoration of mechanical media.
The James A. Lindner Prize is awarded jointly by the South East Asia Pacific Audio Visual Archives Association (SEAPAVAA), The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), and the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). The Prize is awarded to an individual, group of individuals or an organization for research, which by its originality, breadth and scope, is having or may potentially have a major impact on the technology of the preservation of moving images and/or recorded sound. The Prize is a certificate accompanied by a cash amount. The 2008 James A. Lindner Prize will be presented at the 2008 AMIA Annual Conference in Savannah, Georgia, USA.

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