FRAME 2020

Editorial

In 2020, due to the sanitary crisis, FRAME onsite training sessions (FRAME Tech and FRAME Access) are replaced by a single online training session, organized in two parts, from November 24 to 26 and from December 1 to 3.

Last spring, Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown made us experience an unprecedented situation that we haven’t succeeded in going through yet. The shock caused by the situation forced us all to question our practices, to question ourselves, and to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of our own organizations and to adapt urgently. Many of us have realized how unprepared we are to face an exceptional situation whether it is a pandemic or another catastrophe, how risks around us aren’t analyzed enough and how reactions aren’t anticipated.

Archivists have to play their part in these events. It means being as prepared as possible, in order to be ready to imagine disruptive solutions to unexpected situations.

One of the main duties of archivists is to ensure archives’ preservation whatever happens and to give access to collections under any circumstances. In view of the current situation, it is even more obvious that audiovisual archives professionals also have to detain strong, updated and multiple skills.

Thus, FRAME 2020 training will try this year to answer the following question: how audiovisual archivists can be prepared to face exceptional events, to prevent risks and to organize disaster recovery?

For this particular session, the usual themes of FRAME, which cover every step of the audiovisual archiving management process, will obviously be addressed through online lectures.

The training will be divided into 2 parts, of 3 mornings each.

The first 3 matinees will focus on the technical dimension: preventive preservation, digitization, media asset management.

The 3 following matinees will be dedicated to the access to archives: online access for different audiences, documentation, collecting memory, rights management.

These presentations will be complemented by experience feedbacks on projects carried out by European and international heritage institutions, and related to some crisis (pandemic, floods, fires, cyber-attacks, wars…) or other exceptional situations, resulting from more or less dramatic events or incidents.

And, since professional network is essential when things are going wrong, several moments will allow the participants to exchange with the speakers and between themselves during the training: questions and answers, presentation of participants’ infrastructures, sharing of resources etc.

We wish you a rich and nice FRAME online session!