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Digital Archives Summer School 2026

Dates: 14-18 September 2026

Language: English

Location: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF / Bundesarchiv

Registration: Open until 12 July (early-bird registration until 15 April)

More information available on the Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF website.
   

The Digital Archives Summer School is a 5-day, practice-oriented course aimed at people working in audiovisual archives who are interested in enhancing their knowledge about digital environments and processes related to digital archives. In the fourth edition, we will focus on digitization processes and the technical metadata that they generate. We will hear input lectures on topics such as planning and prioritization, evaluation, and disposal of digitized material. There will also be an introduction to cataloguing with a focus on technical metadata. We will be guided by the resources of the Cataloguing and Documentation Commission of the FIAF. The final part will deal with data governance in the field of Artificial Intelligence. We will learn how to set up our own open AI instance with relatively little effort.

The "Digital Archives" Summer School is organized by the Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in collaboration with the Bundesarchiv and FINA, as well as with support from FIAF, which will award scholarships of 500 EUR each to five Summer School participants. Applications for these scholarships are open until 8 May.