[ecrea] Call for Participation - Radio Archives in European Community Media

we are happy to announce our final CAPTCHA event "Radio Archives in 
European Community Media" International Conference on Open Radio 
Archives. The conference is being organized by Radio CORAX and will take 
place on 4-6 June 2015 in Halle/Saale (Germany).

You can find our Call for Participation below, as an attachment and on 
our project website.

Please help us spread the word!

For more information on the project CAPTCHA please visit our website 
www.livingarchives.eu. You are also welcome to follow us on 
Facebook:www.facebook.com/communitymediaarchives

For press inquiries please use (info /at/ livingarchives.eu), for project 
related questions please feel free to contact or Helen Hahmann (Project 
Coordinator CAPTCHA) under the address (helen-hahmann /at/ radiocorax.de).



Best Regards,



Virág Bottlik

PR Coordination CAPTCHA







Call for Participation



"Radio Archives in European Community Media"

International Conference on Open Radio Archives



4–6 June, 2015

Radio CORAX, Halle/Saale (Germany)





Community media across Europe face many of the same challenges in 
creating and managing archives of broadcast content. Every minute, they 
produce and broadcast an enormous amount of programming. But how is this 
content preserved and used after its broadcast? Most community 
broadcasters have created their own methodologies for preserving and 
cataloguing their programs: writing their own algorithms, adapting 
software to their needs, or developing complex file structures on hard 
disks, servers and cloud services. To make past broadcasting accessible 
to the public, some stations created systems to automatically upload 
programmes to their website or developed online archives which can be 
browsed or searched by program, subject or tag; others make use of 
collaborative archiving platforms like the Cultural Broadcasting 
Archive, or administer different "satellite" websites on specific 
subjects or aimed at specific communities.



With the conference „Radio Archives in European Community Media“ we want 
to encourage people involved in community media to present current 
broadcast and multi-media archiving practices at their stations and to 
generate ideas for an institutional structure for European community 
radio archives.



Present and share your infrastructure solutions: At the conference we 
would like to explore and exchange different ways in which community 
media can preserve, use and share broadcast content. What tools and 
infrastructures to archive audiovisual material are best suited for 
community media? Which formats did your station find or create to 
present audiovisual content online? Which innovative techniques or tools 
did you develop or are you still looking for?



Archiving methods and archiving culture: A major challenge in building 
community media archives is how to cultivate archiving as an essential 
part of radio making. Many programme makers are focused foremost on 
their "on air" show. What are the best ways to engage them in archiving 
their programs and sharing them with online listeners? Who undertakes 
what task: uploading programmes, adding descriptions and tags, promoting 
them on social media? Are programs uploaded whole or split into specific 
items, with or without music, and how is the material edited?













The responsibility to archive: How can community archives integrate 
multilingualism? How can online archiving support programme exchange 
within Europe? What importance do analogue, physical archives have in 
the digital age, and how can community media secure and digitize them? 
How can community media archives unlock historical material about 
community life and social movements in user-friendly ways? Not least, we 
encourage proposals dealing with the question of copyright regulations 
and the role of open software and open knowledge.





For whom?



We invite and encourage programme makers and coordinators from European 
community media, radio activists, researchers, programmers and 
technicians to participate in the conference and submit proposals.



Formats of Presentation



We invite proposals for papers, workshops, discussions, presentations 
and radio shows on any subject related to "Radio Archives in European 
Community Media". You can send in proposals in German, English or Spanish.

Proposals that engage the audience in active participation and 
discussion, or in trying out or evaluating archiving tools or 
strategies, are especially welcome. Participants can contribute to the 
conference in a variety of ways, not just by presenting a paper or 
hosting a discussion in 30-minute slots, or conducting a training or 
hosting a world café in max. 1 hour slots, but also by publishing a text 
in the conference reader, broadcasting or producing a radio show during 
the conference,  or creating posters, web features or any other content 
you find suitable.



Submission



Please send proposals by January 31, 2015, to (info /at/ livingarchives.eu). 
Describe your proposed activity on not more than one page (including 
title and type of presentation) and include a short biography.



Presenters of accepted proposals will be informed by February 28, 2015. 
They will be invited to the conference and reimbursed for travel and 
accommodation expenses.





The conference will be live streamed. For further information please check

our Website: http://livingarchives.eu or

on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/communitymediaarchives





CAPTCHA – Creative Approaches to Living Cultural Archives is a European 
cooperation project between Radio FRO in Linz (Austria), Radio Corax in 
Halle/Saale (Germany), Center for Media and Communication Studies of the 
Central European University in Budapest (CEU, Hungary) and Near Media 
Co-Op, community radio & TV in Dublin (Ireland). CEUs Europe-wide study 
on community radio archiving and an open source online tool for content 
visualization will be presented during the conference.

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