The SPP-ICA Conference was held in the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, from 30 May to 1 June 2023. This was the first face-to-face conference since the pandemic and the first in-person event for all SPP members since 2015. The subject of the conference was Audio-visual collections in Parliamentary and Political Archives.
30 May–1 June 2023
The Knesset, Jerusalem
Opening remarks:
- Ms. Inda Novominsky, Director of the Knesset Archives
- Adv. Dan Marzouk, Knesset Secretary General/Mr. Moshe Edri, Knesset Director General
- Mr. Shmuel Hizkiya, Chief Knowledge Officer and Head of Information Division
First Panel: Managing Photography Collections. Moderator: Ms. Inda Novominsky, Director of the Knesset Archives
- Evolution of Photography at the Spanish Congress of Deputies Archive. Ms. Sandra Rodriguez Bermejo, Head of External of Projection Service. Archive. Congress of Deputies, Spain
- Management and Preservation of the Portuguese Parliament Photographic Collections. Ms. Ana Margarida Rodriguez, Assessora parlamentar, Direção de Informação e Cultura | Arquivo Histórico Parlamentar, Assembleia da República, Portugal
-Photographers, Copyright, And The Formation Of The Senate Photographic Archive: Content And Dissemination. Ms. Monserrat García Muñoz, Head of Technical Processing and Dissemination Service, Senate Archives Department, Spain
Second Panel: Audiovisual Documentation of Plenary Sessions. Moderator: Ms. Maya Cohen Rahamim, Director of the Department of Parliamentary Records
- Retention and Archiving of Sound and Video Recordings in the House of Representatives of the Federal Parliament of the Kingdom of Belgium. Mr. Joris Vanderborght, records manager and archivist, House of Representatives of the Federal Parliament of the Kingdom of Belgium, Belgium
- Audio and Video Documents in the Archives of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania: Management, Storage and Access. Ms. Rasa Narbutaitè, Chief Specialist of the Archive Unit, Archives of the Seimas, Republic of Lithuania
- Content Management in the Audiovisual Archive of les Corts. Ms. María José Cubells Puertes, Archive Department, Cortes Valencianas, Spain
Third Panel: Managing Special Visual Collections. Moderator: Dr. Gilad Natan, Deputy Director of the Knesset Archives
- The Archive Holdings of the Advertising Agency ARE in the AdsD: Challenges of Preserving an Audiovisual Collection.= Mr. Alexander Boix, Referat Infrastrukturen und digitale Grundsatzfragen, Referent Film-, Video- und Tonsammlung, Archiv der sozialen Demokratie, Germany
- Audiovisual Archives as Tokens of Cultural Heritage in the Hellenic Parliament Library: A Case-Study. Dr. Maria Kamilaki, Head of the Hellenic Parliament Library Directorate and Ms. Antzela Karapanou, Head of the Parliamentary Archives Department, Greece
- Political Posters From Eight Decades—From Archive Stock to Public Product. =Mr. Michael Borchard, Head of the Division of Scientific Services, Archive for Christian Democratic Politics of th Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Germany
- Political Cartoons: Artwork—Collections—Exploitation Rights. Ms. Renate Hopfinger, Archiv für Christlich-Soziale Politik, Germany
Fourth Panel: Oral History. Moderator: Dr. Moshe Fuksman Shal, Director of the Knesset Museum
- Parliamentary Oral History. Ms. Karin Schneider and Mr. Günther Schefbeck, Austrian Parliament, Austria
- From the Exhibition to the Archive—Challenges of Maintenance and Management of Digital and Physical Sources in an International Collaboration Project. Ms. Bärbel Förster, Deputy director of the Historical Centre an Head of Archives and Dr. Anja Schade, Project Manager, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Germany
- The GULag Witness Archive in the Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Eastern Germany.Dr. Matthias Buchholz, Head of the Archive-Library-Documentation, The Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Eastern Germany, Germany
Fourth Panel: Oral History. Moderator: Dr. Moshe Fuksman Shal, Director of the Knesset Museum
- Oral Sources in a Written World. Mr. Egil Borlaug, Head of Stortingets Archives, Norway
- History of Liberalism with Contemporary Witnesses. Dr. Ewald Grothe, Leiter, Archiv des Liberalismus, Germany
- Oral History in the Knesset Museum.Dr. Moshe Fuksman Shal, Director of the Knesset Museum, Israel
Fifth Panel: Managing and Digitizing Audiovisual Collections in Parliamentary Archives. Moderator: Mr. Natan Last, Head of the Knesset Declassification Unit, Knesset Archive
- From Humble Beginnings - The digitization of historical visual materials from collections of the Archives of The Chamber of Deputies and plans for the future. Mr. Petr Včelák, Digitization Specialist, Archives of the Chamber of Deputies, Czech Republic
- Italian Parliament's experience in the visual and audiovisual documents management. Dr. Paolo Massa, Director of the Archives of the Chamber of Deputies, Italy
