Save Our Audiovisual Memory (SAM)

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Frédéric Dumas
French National Audiovisual Institute (INA)

FIAT / IFTA has been commissioned by the Group to take over the running and coordination of its activities. Since November 2006, Emmanuel Hoog, special envoy of FIAT and CEO of Ina (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel), is the chairman of the Group. Sue Malden is the executive coordinator.

The Group consists of:

• United Nations, represented by Lily Chau, Antonio da Silva
• UNESCO, represented by Joie Springer
• WBU - World Broadcasting Union, represented by David Baylor
• EBU / UER - European Broadcasting Union, represented by David Wood
• FIAT / IFTA - International Federation of Television Archive, represented by Emmanuel Hoog, Sue Malden, Dominique Saintville
• Matt White (independent)

The Group was created in February 2006, following the session on endangered archives held at the World Electronic Media Forum - WEMF, on the occasion of the World Summit of the Information Society - WSIS ( Tunis, 15-16 November 2005)

At the WEMF closing session, the recommendations were presented to Kofi Annan, General Secretary of the UN. They included the creation of an ad hoc group. The group would have the task of proposing and implementing an action plan for the preservation of endangered archives, particularly for the developing world.

Furthermore, in its message to the heads of state and government attending the WSIS, the WEMF II rapporteur requested them to "provide support for urgent action to preserve the world's audiovisual heritage, enabling future generations to access archives on their own social and cultural history, and for the establishment of an international ad hoc group on audiovisual archives comprising the world's broadcasting unions, UNESCO, specialist organisations and financing agencies."

The Group has launched a world survey, sent by each of the eight regional broadcasting unions to their members, intended to estimate the magnitude of the issue and identify archive preservation / digitisation projects that may benefit from an international support.

Based on the first results of the survey, a project has been designed. This presentation will detail technical issues related to the project.

Frédéric Dumas
Frédéric Dumas currently works at the Research and Experiment Department of the French National Audiovisual Institute (INA). He manages Research and Development projects, he coordinates software developments, and he provides technical expertise in the following fields: copyright protection techniques for audiovisual content, preservation of archives, digital mass storage. He manages R&D actions in the framework of internal INA projects (video content detection and filtering system) and in the framework of collaborative French and European projects. Before that, he participated in software developments for audiovisual applications. Then, he conducted different technical studies and professional training sessions at the Technical Department of INA since 1995 before entering INA's Research Department in 1997.

He notably co-authored reference studies concerning the tools and techniques for the distribution and storage of digitized audiovisual documents. He participated in selection committees for French and European R&D support programmes. He also contributed to the MPEG21 standard as far as multimedia content identification is concerned and he participated in Eurovision workgroups on archive management and audiovisual content protection. Education: Telecom Paris / ENST; specialization in audiovisual technologies and computer science (1994).