Resources of the Cataloguing and Documentation Commission
Training & Workshops
CDC's Thursday Workshops
In September 2022, the FIAF Commissions launched a new series of online workshops covering a wide range of topics discussed in the FIAF community. The following workshops have been held already. We provide slides and/or recordings whenever possible. Please check the forthcoming Thursday Workshops HERE.
- Slides of the Thursday Online Workshop on METS/PREMIS (Rebecca Rochat, Robin François, and Maryline Monnerat - Cinémathèque suisse), 19 October 2023
- Slides of the Thursday Online Workshop on "CEN 15907 in practice: Using the Variant in the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)", by Katerina Kampoli (Film Cataloger, CNC), and Tristan Gomez (Database Administrator, CNC), 7 March 2024
- Video recording and slides of the Thursday Online Workshop on "Introducción a los metadatos para la descripción central de recursos de imágenes en movimiento: aplicaciones según FRBR, RDA, EN15907", (Circe Itzel Sánchez González, miembro de la CDC, UNAM, Ciudad de México), 23 May 2024
- Video presentation from the Thursday Online Workshop on “No database required: Storing and accessing metadata in a common/generic way” (Peter Bubestinger, AV-RD), 17 October 2024
- Video recording of the Workshop/Discussion on “Green Archiving - Eco-Friendly Practices in Use in the Film Archives” (Reto Kromer, Clément Lafite, Valentina Rossetto, Caroline Figueroa Fuentes), 14 November 2024
- Notes about the Thursday Online Workshop “Contributing to the FIAF Treasures from the Film Archives”, 27 February 2025
- Slides of the Thursday Online Workshop on "Collecting born-digital film-related materials" and "Contributing to the FIAF Directory of Special Collections", by Adelheid Heftberger (Head of the CDC), Anna Fiaccarini (Cineteca di Bologna, Rapporteur of the Task Force on Special Collections), Grace Johnston (British Film Institute), 27 March 2025
- Slides of the Thursday Online Workshop "Cataloguing with Limited Resources", by Murchana Borah (Film Heritage Foundation / CDC), 22 May 2025
- Video recording and slides of the Workshop/Discussion on “Green Archiving” - Part II, 11 December 2025
- Presentation slides of the Thursday Online Workshop "An Introduction to the description standards ISAD-G and SEDA", by Sandrine Gill and Martine Sin Blima-Barru (Archives nationales de France, Paris), 26 February 2026
- Presentation slides of the Thursday Online Workshop on The FIAF Moving Image Cataloguing Manual. 2nd Edition, by Natasha Fairbairn (BFI / CDC member), 16 April 2026
Other Training Events Organized by or Involving the CDC
- Metadata Management in Film Archives Workshop (Postdam, 29-30 March 2017)
- Cataloguing Masterclass: Cataloguing Newsreels and Cinemagazines (online, 27-28 April 2021)
- Summer School "Digital Archives" 2021 (Potsdam and online, 6-10 September 2021)
- Summer School "Digital Archives" 2022 (Potsdam/Berlin, 5-9 September 2022)
- Periodicals Indexing Project's 50th Anniversary Symposium: “Film Databases and Resources in the Digital Era” (Copenhagen, 23 September 2022)
- FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission Workshop on Cataloguing Film-Related Materials (Stockholm, 25-26 May 2023)
- Summer School "Digital Archives" 2024 (Potsdam/Berlin, 23-27 September 2024)
- FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission Workshop: "Film-Related Materials in Archives - From Acquisition to Access" (Bologna, 20-21 June 2025)
- De la Catalogación a la Metadescripción Integral de Recursos de Imágenes en Movimiento (Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City, 9 September 2025).
