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Lora Aroyo
Lora Aroyo is an associate professor at the W eb and Media group, at the Department of Computer
Science, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her research work is focused in several projects
dealing with semantic web technologies for modeling user interests and context, recommendation
systems and personalized access of online multimedia collections, e.g. cultural heritage collections,
multimedia archives and interactive TV. W ebsite http://lora-aroyo.org / Twitter account @laroyo
Sarah-Haye Aziz
Sarah-Haye Aziz is the Head of the RSI’s television archives and in charge of the department’s
internal training programs. Prior to this, she obtained a MSc in Communication Sciences from the
University of Lugano (Switzerland), specializing in mass media and new media studies. In addition to
her job, she has been involved in many projects and publications as co-author on SSR and RSI history
books. In 2003 she also participated to the audiovisual archives section of the Digital Divide Report,
that has been part of the UNESCO preparatory works for the World Summit on the Information Society
(WSIS). Her research interests are mainly oriented towards the fields of media history and relationship
between media and cultural identity.
Karin Bredenberg
Karin Bredenberg holds a position as IT architect at the National Archives in Sweden (SNA). She
graduated in Computer Engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 2006.
Bredenberg mainly works with Swedish adaptations of international archival metadata standards. She
worked with archivists from around the world on the development of EAC-CPF, a standard for
encoding archival authority records. Currently she serves as member of the PREMIS
Editorial
Committee (Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies) and the Society of American
Archivists: she is part of the Schema Development Team and of the Technical Subcommittee on EAC.
Bredenberg has since 2011 been project manager for the part of E-archiving specifications of the
Swedish project E-archiving and registration eARD.
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Elena Brodie Kusa
Elena Brodie Kusa, an archival evangelist, actively participates in the domestic and international
moving image community. A sitting member of the FIAT/IFTA Media Management Commission, she
also is a member in AMIA, SMPTE and SAA.
Having had the distinct pleasure and opportunity of researching, clearing and contextualizing still and
moving images worldwide, Elena currently consults on archival-based projects and productions. Her
career has taken her from numerous positions within NBC News to the Emmy-nominated ABC News
series The Century. She has also worked with Sir David Frost's production company, Columbia
University's Digital Knowledge Ventures, the Newseum in W ashington, D.C., and PBS’s American
Experience.
Sandra Collins
Dr Sandra Collins is the Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). She is the Chair of the ALLEA
(all European Academies) international E-Humanities Working Group, a member of the Research Data
Alliance European Council, a Work Package Leader for the FP7 STREP project Decipher, a member of
the National Steering Committee for Open Access Policy, a task leader in DARIAH EU, and the Irish
national representative for the EU Commission Future Internet Forum.
She was previously a scientific programme manager in Science Foundation Ireland, where she had
responsibility for a flagship industry-facing research centres programme with total investment over
150M€. She has 10 years experience in the telecommunications industry, and a prior appointment as
lecturer in DCU School of Mathematics. She received her PhD in 1996 in nonlinear fluid dynamics.
Sam Davies
Sam Davies joined BBC R&D in 2007 working on a variety of projects including high frame rate
television, object tracking in sporting events and image recognition. Since 2009 he has been working
on the Multimedia Classification project, which has been identifying new techniques for metadata
generation from audio and video content in the BBC archive. This work has resulted in prototypes
which offer unique ways to analyze the semantic and affective, or emotional, content of audio, visual
and text documents. He is currently studying for a PhD in Information Science at City University,
London, looking at federated search for broadcast archives incorporating semantic and affective
metadata.
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Brecht DeClercq
Brecht Declercq holds Master’s Degrees in Contemporary History and International Relations.
Since 2004 he works for the archives department of Flemish public broadcaster VRT. He assisted
in the development of the MAM and in several archival disclosure projects. In 2008 he took a half year
break at VRT to research the future of contextualization for FARO. Since 2008 he leads the digitization
of VRT’s radio archives in the DivA and VErDi projects. Main tasks now are also on the international
level, coordinating VRT's contribution to EUscreen.eu and the strategic one, following-up Flanders’ AV
heritage policy. As a FIAT/IFTA MMC member, he’s an active voice on the international AV-archival
scene.
Florian Delabie
Florian Delabie holds a Master degree in History and Archive science from the Université Catholique
de Louvain (UCL). Since 2011, he works at the Radio-Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française
(RTBF) as archivist and project manager. In addition to inside projects, he is also active in the
European projects EuScreenXL and MediaMap+.
Beth Delaney
Beth Delaney has been defining collection management system needs, implementing metadata
standards and developing policy in American and European audiovisual archives for 25 years.
Experienced in both analog and digital collection management, in broadcast as well as cultural
heritage institutions, she is currently involved in researching the implementation of OAIS compliant
digital preservation processes for a national audiovisual archive. This includes identifying gaps
between preservation related business requirements and current operations, providing guidance on
implementing preservation metadata standards, and writing policy. She has a master’s in Library and
Information Science with a specialization in archives. When not thinking about SIPs, AIPs and DIPs
she can be found listening to jazz and trying out new recipes.
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Brid Dooley
Bríd Dooley is Head of RTÉ Archives, Ireland's National Public Service Broadcaster ; largest Audiovisual
Archives in Ireland, incorporating moving image, audio, stills and document archives. Responsible for
leading the strategy to develop and open up RTÉ Archives as part of the newly integrated RTÉ Digital
Division. A media professional with over 25 years experience in the Broadcast Archiving sector, she is a
passionate advocate for audiovisual archives. Brid is also a Member of the Executive Council & former
General Secretary of FIAT/IFTA
Eva-Lis Green
Eva Lis-Green is Media Quality Controller and Group Manager at the Archives and Rights Department
of the Swedisch Broadcasting Company SVT. She has worked at SVT since 1984 and has a
background as Head of Archives and Transmission, Head of Documentation, Information System
Coordinator at the Engineering Department and Project manager for different IT-and Media
Management systems. Eva-Lis is a specialist in archiving workflows and information systems in the
field of media asset management. She is a member of the Executive Council of FIAT/IFTA and also
chair of the Media Management Commission. Green has been active in different European and
national organizations, projects and commissions in the archive and metadata field. Eva-Lis has
studied Swedish language, literature and music at Lund University and also has a degree in
Librarianship.
Seth van Hooland
Seth van Hooland holds the chair in Digital Information at the Information and Communication Science
department of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. Within the current move towards a
more structured and semantic environment for electronic resources, van Hooland wants to bridge the
gap between domains (Document and Records Management, Open and Linked Data, Digital
Humanities), practices (manual and automated metadata creation, data cleaning and enrichment) and
communities (academia, industry, activists and practitioners) in order to make resources as accessible
as possible in a sustainable manner.
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Xavier Jacques-Jourion
Xavier Jacques-Jourion is Head of Archives at the Radio-télévision Belge de la Communauté
Française (RTBF), the Belgian French-speaking public broadcaster. He started his career as a sound
engineer in Radio in 1997, then turned to project management in 2007 before joining the Archives in
2009. Over the years, he has led various projects at the interface between broadcasting technology,
information technology and content production. Aside from the daily tasks of archiving and retrieval for
both TV and Radio, the RTBF Archives department is in charge of charting the future in terms of
metadata for the whole company. Xavier is a member of the FIAT-IFTA Media Management
Commission.
Mike Matton
Dr. Mike Matton holds Master’s degrees in Informatics (2002) and Artificial Intelligence (2003) from the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He obtained his Ph.D. Degree in engineering science (computer
science) from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 2009. His Ph.D. research involved example based
methods for speech and pattern recognition. He joined the research labs of the VRT broadcasting
organization in October 2009 as a researcher in the research domain of information management,
which investigates techniques for the creation, management and exchange of metadata from
broadcast media. His main interests include data mining, automatic feature extraction and data linking.
He is a member of several metadata-related expert groups in the EBU.
Alberto Messina
Alberto Messina (MS, PhD) began as a research engineer with RAI in 1996, when he completed his
MS Thesis about objective quality evaluation of MPEG2 video coding. R&D coordinator since 2005,
his current competence area is Media Information and Knowledge Engineering. He has extensive
collaborations with national and international research institutions and an active member of several
Technical projects in EBU,where he now leads the Strategic Programme on Media Information
Management. He worked in the EC PrestoSpace and PrestoPRIME projects, and currently in TOSCAMP and VISION Cloud. He has served in the Programme Committee of several international
conferences and has been General Co-chair of the International Workshop on Automated Information
Extraction in Media Production workshop. He has been nominated Contract Professor at Politecnico di
Torino from 2012. He actively participates in International Standardization bodies, mainly in EBU and
MPEG, where he contributed to MPEG-7 Audiovisual Description Profile.
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Therese Nilsson
Tagging librarian at the SVT Archives and rights department. Therese has worked at SVT since 2011.
As tagging librarian she is coordinating the tagging of the svt.se, putting up guidelines, controlling
applied metadata/tags and organizing tags in the terminology in the content management system.
Therese has also worked as a cataloguer at Swedish radio in a project for digitizing the material in the
radio archives.
She has studied gender science, literature and philosophy at Stockholm university and has a master’s
in Library and Information Science.
Thomas Prehn
Thomas Prehn is an independent strategy and innovation consultant working with international and
national clients and partners. He has been in the business of consultancy for more than 10 years.
As former head of the Concept Development in Danish Broadcasting Corporation, master class
lecturer and co-founder of a handful of start-ups he is regarded as an entrepreneurial adventurer in
the field of innovation and development of business and organizations.
Svein Prestvik
Svein Prestvik, Head of Archive & Research Department (A&R) at NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting
Corporation Ltd.). Svein has held this position since 2009. Before that he had different positions inside
the NRK, as Head of Development, and Chief Editor for regional broadcasting in the county of Nord
Trøndelag. During his time as head of A&R, the department has undergone large changes. The
registration of metadata for archive purposes is now done by the journalists and the production staff
themselves, as an inherent part of the content production. The freed resources are used to build a
media independent Research Center to support the editorial research for internal and external sources
and footage, and to establish a totally new section for making archive content publicly available.
Yves Raimond
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Yves Raimond holds a PhD from Queen Mary, University of London. His thesis was entitled ‘A
Distributed Music Information System’, and defined a framework for applying a range of Semantic W eb
technologies for managing and distributing music-related information. As part of his thesis, he
contributed extensively to what would become the ‘Linking Open Data’ community project. Since 2008,
he has been working for the BBC, first on the bbc.co.uk/programmes service, publishing structured
data about all BBC programmes, and then in BBC R&D on the ABC-IP Technology Strategy Board
collaborative project, aiming at unlocking archives by interlinking them with related datasets. As part of
this project he has worked on a prototype combining automated interlinking with Linked Data sources
and crowdsourcing to open up the BBC W orld Service archive.
Maarten de Rijke
Maarten de Rijke is full professor of Information Processing and Internet in the Informatics Institute at
the University of Amsterdam. He holds MSc degrees in Philosophy and Mathematics (both cum
laude), and a PhD in Theoretical Computer Science. He worked as a postdoc at CWI, before
becoming a Warwick Research Fellow at the University of W arwick, UK. He joined the University of
Amsterdam in 1998, and was appointed full professor in 2004. De Rijke leads the Information and
Language Processing Systems group, one of the world's leading academic research groups in
information retrieval. During the most recent computer science research assessment exercise, the
group achieved maximal scores on all dimensions.
De Rijke’s research focus is on intelligent information access, with projects on social media analytics,
vertical search engines, machine learning for information retrieval, and semantic search. The retrieval
and language technology developed by his research group is being used by organizations around the
Netherlands and beyond, and has given rise to various spin-off initiative.
Camilla Roesen
Personally and professionally Camilla is highly interested in and passionate about user-behavior, the
processing of big amounts of data, the importance of social media, metadata and the flow of such.
Since 2009 she is been working at the radio and television archive at the Danish Broadcasting
Corporation (DR). Roesen is part of the team that has implemented the project ‘Archiving at the
source’ (delivery of metadata from production).
That includes decision-making about which metadata should be delivered, developing and performing
training programs for the production teams all over the company, and creating a trustworthy
communication between the archive and the production teams. She is also member of the workgroup
for metadata standards. Camilla holds a BA in Information and library science from The Royal school
of Library and Information Science, and is currently taking a MA in Information Science and Cultural
Studies at Copenhagen University.
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Tom de Smet
Tom de Smet is head of Collections and Cataloguing at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and
Vision. Tom has extensive experience in analogue and digital film processing and restoration. He
worked with various national and international projects and organizations, including the Amsterdam
based Haghefilm, one of the Benelux' most complete restoration and digital intermediate facilities.
Between 2008 and 2011, Tom worked as project manager for film digitization with the Dutch Images
for the Future programme, the largest audiovisual digitization programme in Europe to date. He is also
member of the PP Commission of FIAT/IFTA.
Cees Snoek
Cees Snoek is currently an assistant professor at the Intelligent Systems Lab of the University of
Amsterdam and head of R&D at Euvision Technologies, one of the lab’s spin-off. Previously he was
affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University (2003) and UC Berkeley (2010-2011). His research interests
focus on video and image retrieval. Dr. Snoek is the lead researcher of the MediaMill Semantic Video
Search Engine, which is a consistent top performer in the yearly NIST TRECVID evaluations. He
serves on the editorial boards for IEEE MultiMedia and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. Cees is
recipient of an NWO Veni award (2008), an NWO Vidi award (2012), and the Netherlands Prize for
ICT Research (2012).
Daniel Steinmeier
Daniel Steinmeier is a technical specialist in the education department at The Netherlands Institute for
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Sound and Vision where he has been involved in making AV-material accessible for educational
purposes via the web platforms Teleblik and Academia among others.
Steinmeier has a degree in Language and Culture studies with a specialization in media.
Metadata has always played an important role in his work and he has worked for years with metadata
standards such as IEEE-LOM and protocols for metadata exchange like OAI-PMH. Currently Daniel
Steinmeier is part of the Beeld en Geluid team that is defining the requirements for OAIS-compliant
business processes and digital object management. In this capacity he helped developing the
Information Model and the Preservation Metadata Dictionary V1.0.
Kaisa Unander
Kaisa Unander worked for 20 years in public service at the SVT, the Swedish national broadcaster, the
first 10 years of which in production of news and current affairs. Unander was involved in
postproduction during the technical change from video to digital editing. After that she moved to
directing and producing.
The second 10 years at SVT, Kaisa Unander was employed as manager of the newsroom, playout
and MCR. In all these positions she functioned as change leader of the digitization process. Since
2011, Unander is working as a manager for technical services at the audiovisual department of the
National Library of Sweden. She is involved in the digitization of analogue carriers to digital files and
in other migration projects . She also works with the new legal deposit for the electronic documents.
Lorenzo Vassalo
Lorenzo Vassallo is a technical advisor at the RSI. His role is supporting the archivists as an interface
with the IT department and the external suppliers. The primary goal of his job is to coordinate all the
projects, to maintain a global consistency and harmonize the Archives’ Systems with the other RSI
Departments. Prior to this he gained 7 years of expertise on digital asset management, advance
analytical documentation and digital preservation for an IT company specialized in Media Asset
Management. He contributed significantly to the development of CMM, the cataloguing system of RSI.
In 2004 he received a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Milan.
Rutger Verhoeven
Rutger Verhoeven is Managing Director New Media at VARA Broadcasting Company. He is
responsible for all online exposure (websites, app's, second screen, connectedTV etc.) of enterprise
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and sub-brands. Verhoeven also worked for different multimedia parties, such as (educational) TV,
marketing, advertising, publishing and online and is responsible for development of various
crossmedial concepts: www.kaboem.nl, www.carteorange.nl, giel.vara.nl vroegevogels.vara.nl, vara.nl
en dwddmagazine.nl . Programma’s and concepts of Rutger Verhoeven received several awards: a
SAM Award (2006), the Cinekid New Media Award (2007), a Mercur Crossmedia Award (2009 + 2010)
and a Horizon Interactive Award in 2013. He is nominated for the Dutch Interactive Award 2013 with
the Kassa Panel App. Verhoeven was a member of the Cinekid New Media Award Jury from 2009
until 2012. Currently he advices as chairman in HKU Awards for Innovation on New Media and he is a
member of the board of advice for the Information & Communication Academy Arnhem. Rutger
Verhoeven is currently working on social media integration in TV, social video player with related
content, Second Screen and several concepts and applications for mobile devices.
Julia Vytopil
As a policy advisor Innovation for the Collections unit of Holland's main audiovisual archive,
Julia combines an interest in technological innovations and process innovation with an interest in
audiovisual collections. After studying art direction at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy
(class of 2003) Julia worked as a freelance art-director and assistant art director for film and television
for three years. In 2009 she started at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, working for
several projects concerned with valorization of research on cultural (AV) heritage. In her current
function Julia works on several projects, collaborating with broadcasters, regarding the optimization of
metadata flows and the relationship with the production environment.
Jennifer Wilson
Jennifer began her post-university career as a film cataloguer at Scottish Screen before moving onto
BBC Scotland. Sixteen years and a variety of library roles later, she is now their Data and Taxonomy
Manager, and as such is responsible for the taxonomy and metadata standards, protocols and policies
in the Digital Library. Jennifer was part of the team that developed the first Digital Library project within
the BBC,and is now immersed in the current upgrade. W hilst the evolution of the original Digital
Library Taxonomy into the ‘Jenonomy’ continues apace, Jennifer is particularly interested in the
development of cataloguing and search tools.
Lian Wintermans
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Lian W intermans is currently metadata specialist at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of
the Netherlands. In this position she is responsible for the metadata policies, processes and
implementation for the library's long term preservation system. She has extensive knowledge of a wide
range of metadata standards, including the PREMIS standard for preservation metadata. Her
professional interests are the role of metadata in the life cycle of digital content, and the bridge
between metadata, functionality and technology.
Liam Wylie
Liam W ylie is the senior curator and content producer at RTÉ Archives where he is responsible for the
website www.rte.ie/archives He has worked as a film and television archivist and is a former head of
collections at the Irish Film Archive. Through his own production company Red Lemonade Productions
he has independently produced and directed archive based documentaries for RTÉ television.
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