(All abstracts appear in alphabetical order according to the Surname of the first author)

The need for specialised audiovisual archives in ESARBICA
Ruth Abankwah, Botswana Institute of Administration and Commerce, Gaborone, Botswana

Digitizing the Newsreels collection at the Hellenic National Audiovisual Archive: A Case Study
Fouad Abdul Malak, Dimitris Antzoulidis, Anna Christaki, Spyros Ioannou, Stefanos Kollias Andreas Pipis, Arne Stabenau, Vassilis Tzouvaras, Hellenic National Audiovisual Archive, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

The role of the National Audiovisual Archives historical and aesthetic memory 
Theodoros Adamopoulos, Greek Film Archive, Tainiothiki tis Ellados, Greece 

The Historical Archive of the "Konstantinos G. Karamanlis" Foundation. Action and Perspectives
Christos Anastasiou, "Konstantinos G. Karamanlis" Foundation, Athens, Greece

The Music Section of the Hellenic Folklore Research Centre of the Academy of Athens
Maria Androulaki, Researcher-Musicologist, Zoe Anagnostopoulou, Musicologist, Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, Greece

Europeana: merging access to museums, libraries, audio-visual archives in Europe
Georgia Angelaki, Europeana Office, The Hague, the Netherlands

I Took The One Less Traveled By: DAT Migration at Radio New Zealand's Sound Archives/Nga Taonga Korero
Tim Bathgate, Radio New Zealand Sound Archives/Nga Taonga Korero, New Zealand

Digital Content: Convergence and Interactivity
Richard Billeaud, RBC Consultant , France

Hybridity is the Future: Negotiating Life as an Archive-Library
Aaron M. Bittel, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA  

Compass course - safeguarding. Navigating new policy waters in a new archival archipelago
Mathias Bostroem, The Swedish Centre for Folk Music and Jazz Research, Stockholm, Sweden

Data Protection and Access to Digital Archives
Maria Bottis, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece

Visibility of the cultural heritage: a commitment from all
Clara Ines Casilimas Rojas, Archivo General de la Nacion, Carrera 6 N° 6 - 91, Bogota, Colombia,

Recording the environment: creating an archive of ambience 
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata, India

The impact of digital technology and international regulations in the protection and dissemination of indigenous knowledge in Africa: the case of the South Africa Music Archive Project (SAMAP)
Ken Dennis Chisa, University of South Africa, Pitermaritzburg, South Africa

Audiovisual funds preservation and dissemination in state archives of Spain: An example of collaborating and using digital tools: "Spanish dances in Google Earth"
M. Elena Cortes Ruiz, Fernando Ransanz Cordobes, Jose Luis Arcas Hernandez, State archives of Spain, Alcala de Henares, Spain

The European Project MEMORIES: a contribution to the audio archiving and retrieval processes 
Jean-Francois Cosandier, Jacqueline von Arb, Guy Marechal, Philippe Scohy,
RSR, Lausanne, Switzerland; NIRS, Stavanger, Norway; Memnon, Brussels, Belgium 

Is Your Avatar in MySpace?
Matthew Davies, NFSA, Canberra, Australia

Improving preservation and accessibility of audiovisual documents: a playground for convergence
Kurt Deggeller, Memoriav, Berne, Switzerland
 
78 rpm records in the 21st century: “Resurrection” or a second “new life”?
Nikos Dionisopoulos, Institute for Research on Music & Acoustics, Athens, Greece

Sunrise or sunset? The future of audiovisual archives
Ray Edmondson, Archive Associates, Canberra, Australia
 
A portal for film archives in Europe: The European Film Gateway
Georg Eckes, Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF, Frankfurt Franca Debole, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Pasquale Savino, CNR-ISTI, Pisa,

Presentation of the project "Greek Film Digital Archive"
Manos Efstratiadis, Greek Film Centre, Greece

Replay equipment technology for obsolete carriers in the Recording Centre of the Athens Concert Hall
Nikos P. Espialidis, The Athens Concert Hall Organisation, Athens , Greece

Panel Session on 'Ethics and Archival Practice'
Christiane Fennesz-Juhasz et al. Phonogrammarchiv, Vienna, Austria, and others

Music information: a converging view of digital, physical and temporal resources 
Michael Fingerhut, Ircam - Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
 
Opening the archive: online access and rights management
Ingrid Finnane, National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
 
The role of National Audiovisual Archives: The case of Israel 
Gila Flam, The National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
 
U.S. Federal Agencies AV Digitization Working Group
Carl Fleischhauer, Library of Congress, USA

Low-cost and Low-complexity Optical Sound Restoration using Image and Sound Processing Techniques
A. Floros, N. Grigoriou, , N. Kanellopoulos, Ionian University, Dept. of Audiovisual Arts, Corfu, Greece
 
Uncertainly about digital data carriers - The case of WORM Optical Discs
Jean-Marc Fontaine, UPMC - MCC - CNRS / LAM, Paris, France
 
"Virtual Archive" - a platform for discographical data and access small and private record collections 
Claus Peter Gallenmiller, Gesellschaft fur Historische Tontrager, Wien, Austria
 
The sound of music. Cataloguing Spanish songs in the audiovisual records
Alicia Garcia Medina, National Library of Spain, Madrid, Spain 
 
ILKAR: Improving the preservation of magnetic tape and cylinders. Some new insights into a well-known problem
Elena Gomez Sanchez, Rathgen Research Laboratory, National Museums in Berlin
Albrecht Wiedmann, Ethnological Museum, National Museums in Berlin, Germany
 
Acquisition Ethics
Judith Gray, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, USA
 
GlobalMusic2One - Accessing diverse world music archives using a hybrid approach between Web 2.0 techniques and adaptive music information retrieval
Holger Grossmann, Jakob Abesser, Hanna Lukashevich, Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT), Ilmenau, Germany
 
Education & Training in AV archiving: Train trainees and trainers, seen from the supervising trainers' perspective
Albrecht Haefner,  Dr. Dietrich Schueller (Phonogramme Archive Vienna), Nadja Wallaszkovits (Phonogramme Archive Vienna), Dr. Gisa Jaehnichen (Universitaet Frankfurt/Main)

Digitization of audio archives - The Greek experience
Chris Hatzistamou, Athens mastering, Athens, Greece 
 
From Preservation Master to On-line Access: Automating Workflows for huge Media Collections 
JoErg Houpert, Cube-Tec, Bremen, Germany 
 
Audiovisual content in the digital era
Rainer Hubert, Oesterreichische Mediathek, Vienna, Austria
 
The 'digital butterfly net' of ethnomusicologists and its impact on audiovisual archiving
Gisa Jaehnichen, Universiti Putra Malaysia

Etv Archives and the user: working within a digital archive system
Lynn Johnson, Etv, Cape Town, South Africa
 
Alternative system for non-commercial use of intellectual property in consideration of free P2P file-sharing
Prof. Dionysia Kallinikou, University of Athens, Greece
Marinos Papadopoulos, Vassiliki Strakantouna, Alexandra Kaponi, Patsis, Papadopoulos, Kaponi & Associates, Athens, Greece 
 
Digital interactive media exploration of Audiovisual archives
Aggelos Katris, Eirini Stathi, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece
 
Traditional Archives as New Archives' Backbone
Andreas Kellerhals, Swiss Federal Archives, Switzerland
 
Establishing a new National Audiovisual Archive in the 21st century: the case of Greece
Dimitra N. Kitsiou, George A. Bolanis, HeNAA, Athens, Greece
 
Europeana Connect: Listen here!
Gerda Koch, Martin Gordon, AIT, Graz, Austria; RBB, Berlin, Germany
 
From the Editors: Perspectives on IASA as reflected through Editorials in IASA Newsletters, Bulletins and the IASA Journal
Grace Koch, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, ACT Australia
 
Cataloguing Greek Folk and Popular Music Recordings
George Kokkonis, Department of Traditional Music at the Technological Institute of High Education of Epirus, Arta, Greece
 
Curating the Digital Archive
Georgia Korossi, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom
 
“Picture versus Sound” The Methodology and Practice of Newsreels Documentation at the Hellenic National Audiovisual Archive regarding Speakage'
Stelios Kymionis, Emmanuel Georgoudakis, Hellenic National Audiovisual Archive, Athens, Greece
 
Legal deposit: Statutory obligation or right to access to national heritage?
Domna Kyrzopoulou, Hellenic National Audiovisual Archive (HeNAA), Greece

Hidden Treasures Lost Forever? Speech technology & the disclosure of Dutch audiovisual archives
Mies Langelaar, Willemijn Heeren, Gemeentearchief Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands & Universiteit Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
 
Preserving and promoting South Africa's Audio-visual Heritage: the role of the National Film, Video and Sound Archives 
Nkwenkwezi Languza, National Film, Video and Sound Archives, Pretoria, South Africa
 
Mikis Theodorakis Archive: from documentation to digitisation and Web2
Ioulia Lazaridou Elmaloglou, Athens, Greece
 
Cultural and documental collections on indigenous people in Mexico: A gate to the diversity and the strengthen of the Mexican indigenous cultural legacy
Xilonen Maria del Carmen Luna-Ruiz, Comision Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indigenas, Mexico City, Mexico
  
The AEPI Greek Music Archive
Sotiris Lykouropoulos, George Myzalis, AEPI Documentation and Archive department, Greece

Sharing Resources, Sharing Responsibility: Archives in the Digital Age
Bertram Lyons, Nathan Salsburg, Anna Lomax Wood, Association for Cultural Equity / Alan Lomax Archive, New York, USA
 
Armonique: A framework for Web 2.0 audio archiving, searching, and metadata extraction
Bill Manaris, Thomas Zalonis, J.R. Armstrong, Brys Sepulveda, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA
 
The VIDEOSTAR Project
Theofilos Mailis, George Stamou, Stefanos Kollias, ICCS-NTUA
 
Semantic Bricks for Performing Arts Archiving & Dissemination
Erik Mannens, Sam Coppens, Rik Van de Walle, IBBT-UGent-MMLab, Ghent, Belgium
 
Overview of the Greek Audio and Music Archives
Kostas Moschos, Institute for Research on Music & Acoustics – Greek Music Documentation Centre, Greece

The Greek Music Archive of the Institute for Research on Music & Acoustics – Greek Music Documentation Centre
Kostas Moschos, Institute for Research on Music & Acoustics – Greek Music Documentation Centre, Greece

Preserving Audiovisual Archives in Kenya, a case study of the Kenya National Archives
Francis G. Mwangi, Kenya National Archives and Documentation Service, Nairobi, Kenya
 
WeKnowIt : Emerging, Collective Intelligence for personal, organisational and social use
Phivos Mylonas, Yannis Avrithis, Yiannis Kompatsiaris, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
 
Transforming the Comhaltas Traditional Music Archive
Breandan 'O Nualltain, Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, Dublin, Ireland
 
Video Active - European Television heritage online
Johan Oomen, Vassilis Tzouvaras, Marco Rendina, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, The Netherlands, National Technical University of Athens, Greece,
 
Audiovisual archiving and copyright law: Limitations & Exceptions in favor of Archives
Dr. Papadopoulou Maria-Daphne, LL.M. , Athens , Greece
 
The archivist's nightmare: where are my items?!
Aldis Putelis, Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, Latvia

Content migration needs skills migration
Richard Ranft, The British Library Sound Archive, United Kingdom
 
VIDI-Video: Interactive semantic video search with a large thesaurus of machine-learned audio-visual concepts
Marco Rendina, Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Marco Bertini, Università di Firenze, Italy

AllThatSounds - Associative Semantic Retrieval of Audio Files
Julian Rubisch, Matthias Husinsky, Hannes Raffaseder, University of Applied Sciences, St. Poelten, Austria
 
The Future of Present Audiovisual Research Documents - Have we got strategies to ensure sustained access to primary source materials representing the basis of our present knowledge? 
Dietrich Schüeller, Phonogrammarchiv, Vienna, Austria
 
Urns of the Opera : Was a Phantom there?
Xavier Sené, BnF, Paris, France
 
Aggregating audio and video archives at a national level 
Marie-Hélène Serra, Cité de la musique, Paris, France 

Semantic Issues in Cultural Heritage: Archiving and Managing Digital Content in the Foundation of the Hellenic World
Dr. Athanasios Sideris
Head of the History and Archaeology Department, FHW

The use of the audiovisual archives in audiovisual works: ethical issues in the compilation documentaries 
Dr. Yannis Skopeteas, University of the Aegean, Department of Cultural technology and Communication, Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece  

A Networked Audiovisual Competence Centre in Europe
Marius Snyders, Netherlands Insitute for Sound and Vision, Netherlands

On the digital preservation of the archives of a public broadcaster: the case of ERT
N. Sfetsas, P. Stefaneas, Y. Vougiouklakis, A. Loukakis, ERT, Greece
 
Making the past through family movies and found footage films
Irini Stathi, University of the Aegean, Department of cultural technology and communication, Mytilene, Greece

Focusing on 'Tradition' and Ignoring 'Modern'? Ethiopian Groove (1950s- 1970s), efforts of Digitization and International Dissemination 
Timkehet Teffera, Martin-Luther University, Halle, Germany

After Digitisation, What Next? Suggested Guidelines for the Sale, Reproduction and Repatriation of Digital Heritage
Prof. Diane Thram, International Library of African Music, Grahamstown, South Africa
 
Best practice for online delivery of ethnomusicological field recordings
Dr Janet Topp Fargion, British Library Sound Archive, United Kingdom 
 
Sustainability of a Preservation Repository for Public Broadcasting
Kara Van Malssen, Howard Besser, New York University, New York, USA

How is intellectual property management relevant to audiovisual archival practice? Legal and ethical issues
Brigitte Vézina, World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO)

AVIN: Jamaica's Solution to Memorialising Its Cultural Patrimony
Maureen Webster-Prince, Frances Salmon, National Library of Jamaica & University of the West Indies, Mona. Kingston, Jamaica

Digital Preservation of Audiovisual Content
Richard Wright, BBC R&D, London, UK