Bohus Ziskal – Prague, Czech republic

Bohus Ziskal graduated from Czech Technical University with a degree in Technical Cybernetics. He was an assistant professor at the Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship at Charles University and was a lecturer at Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and in Film and TV school of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

He has been working as a Project director for KIT Digital, a premium provider of end-to-end video technology and services, since 2005. The theme of his PhD studies at the Charles University is Archives in AV production and postproduction environment.

Abstracts

Archives in AV production and postproduction environment

• This presentation considers the applicability of various preservation strategies in the Audiovisual Industry with respect to common practice and existing restrictions. It points out the key factors affecting the role of the archive in production environment where audio-visual content structure, formats and distribution models are changing rapidly.
  As certain types of organisation have their archive deeply integrated in the production process and its functional and organisational parts could not be easily distinguished from the rest of the structure, various workflows and strategies are explained.
  With the emerging content distribution models where the constant material re-purposing is becoming a valuable source of revenue, priorities in archive operation could be shifted in favour of daily based operational needs. The implementation of emerging formats like AXF and the state of the art technologies is described and illustrated with case studies.