Resources of the Cataloguing and Documentation Commission (CDC)

The Cataloguing and Documentation Commission offers the following electronic resources:

Glossary of Filmographic Terms (search engine and full html document)

FIAF Cataloguing Rules (1991, PDF file)
The FIAF Moving Image Cataloguing Manual (2016, PDF)
Treasures from the Film Archives Database (access restricted to logged-in members of the FIAF Community)
Report of the Linked Open Data for Filmarchives Workshop (Berlin, 2019)
FIAF Moving Image Cataloguing Manual Survey (2019)
FIAF Moving Image Cataloguing Manual Open Forum (only logged-in members can add to the topics)
Slideshow of Mats Skarstrand's Linked Open Data presentation, CDC Workshop at the 2019 FIAF Congress in Lausanne
The Collection Management System spreadsheet, developed by Ashley Blewer (community-based selection and assessment of collection management systems that support film collections) [Google Doc]
"Archive Title: Unidentified" - Screening and Identifying Unidentified Material from the Bundesarchiv's Collection (Berlin, 16 November 2019)
"Cataloguing Practises in the Age of Linked Open Data: Wikidata and Wikibase for Film Archives", a paper by Adelheid Heftberger and Paul Duchesne for the CDC (June 2020)

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Forthcoming events

21-23 April 2021
FIAF Commissions' Workshops, FIAF General Assembly and EC elections (online)

3–31 May 2021 and 23–25 June 2021
SEAPAVAA’s 25th Conference and General Assembly (online)

3-6 June 2021
Nitrate Picture Show, Rochester

26 June - 3 July 2021
Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy

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News

01/03/2021

Boris Nonevski (1943-2021)

Boris Nonevski, former director of the Cinematheque of North Macedonia, passed away at the end January.

28/02/2021

Film Restored – The Film Heritage Festival 2021

The festival Film Restored, organized by the Deutsche Kinemathek, will take place from 3 to 7 November 2021 at the Filmhaus in Berlin and online. The call for proposals is open until 1 May 2021.

12/02/2021

Change in Dates of SEAPAVAA’s 25th Conference and General Assembly

The 25th Conference will now be held virtually from 23 – 25 June 2021, while the 25th General Assembly will now be held electronically from 3 – 31 May 2021.

28/01/2021

ACE's Season of Classic Films: Free Worldwide Screening on 5 February

The film Sanz y el secreto de su arte (1918, dir. M. Thous and F. Sanz, 65’, with English subtitles) will be screened on Friday 5 February at 18:00 CET with live music, in the frame of ACE’s Season of Classic Films.

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