Preserving our audiovisual heritage Plan for a national television and radio archive

The Finnish Film Archive (FFA) Founded in Films donated or deposited on voluntary basis In 1979 FFA becomes a state bureau Legal deposit legislation concerning moving image in 1984 All materials covered by legal deposit under the same legislation hopefully in 2005

FFA:s declaration of its aims in 1958 FFA collects and preserves films that are significant from the point of view of film history or film art, screens films which illuminate film history, publishes books, periodicals and other publications with the aim of promoting film culture, promotes research of film by offering its collections for the use of scholarly work, collects all kinds of material which relate to film history and film art such as books, periodicals, publications, photographs, programme notes, adverts, manuscripts, film music, sketches for sets and technical devices.

The new legal deposit legislation Programmes considered to have national cultural historical significance will be deposited at broadcast quality All programmes of nationwide radio and television channels will be recorded by the RTVA at browsing quality Samples of local networks will be deposited at broadcast quality (4 weeks / year)

RTVA will cooperate with Producers, TV- and radio companies University departments: film and television studies, media studies, communication studies Scholarly associations: Association of Film Studies, Association of Media Studies Other scientific and cultural organisations

Collections will be used by Film and television studies Other art research Media and communication studies Various branches of historical studies Sociology Language studies Geography

Problems in making collections available Tension between preservation and making available Logistical problems and related expenses The need of radio- and television companies to focus on their core activities Copyrights

Research and other usage FFA-RTVA collections are available for scholarly purposes Other usage depends on possible agreements made with depositors All materials in digital form will be accessible also at legal deposit libraries Preservation and making available of old materials is still an open question

Criteria for the recording & storing system Wide coverage Reliable basic functions Automatic back-up system Automatic refreshing of material Reliable linking with metadata Various search criteria Rapid availability of materials Compatibility with various databases

Metadata and related material Basic metadata from Venice Other metadata related to recorded material mainly as available in digital form Some degree of catalogue information collected at premises Metadata related to deposited material as in connection with depositing films Related material as agreed with related parties

RTVA functions and facilities Specifically designed computer terminals Public discussion between professionals and scholars Scholarly meetings with academic institutions and scholarly societies Scholarly publications Textbooks and other educational material Material made available via internet

Computer terminals Various search functions Programme information Recorded radio- and television programmes Other digitally stored materials Catalogue information Other databases Private clipboard Statistical functions, tools for graphs

Necessary search functions Title of programme Time of broadcasting Programme type Persons Producers Free search

Present state of the project Copyright legislation will be debated in the parliament in the near future Legal deposit legislation will hopefully be passed in 2005 European Council general agreement, the appendix of which obliges the signatories to take care of their national audiovisual heritage Budgetary considerations System already extensively drafted Collecting of metadata still an open question