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IASA

Established in 1969, IASA was set up to function as "a medium for international co-operation between archives that preserve recorded sound and audiovisual documents". IASA is now the pre-eminent representative body on all matters relevant to sound archiving throughout the world. The annual conference of IASA is always a major professional communication event at which presentations on the latest thinking on preservation and access are mixed with case studies, regional reports, site visits, etc. See the IASA website for more details.

FIAT/IFTA

FIAT/IFTA stands for the "International Federation of Television Archives" (in both English and French) and is "an international professional association established to provide a means for co-operation amongst broadcast and national audiovisual archives and libraries concerned with the collection, preservation and exploitation of moving image and recorded sound materials and associated documentation." For more information see the FIAT/IFTA website.