The CCMA celebrates the International File Day with a technical talk and a visit to the TV3 file

The Catalan Audiovisual Media Corporation (CCMA) will celebrate Junio on the 16th a day to give to know its archive that safeguarded 1,282,972 references with about 340,000 hours of digitized images.

This Saturday, June 9, the International File Day, a date that commemorates the creation of the International Archives Council by the UNESCO. To commemorate this event, the Catalan Corporation of Audiovisual Media (CCMA) will organize the June 16one Technical character and a visit to the TV3 files.

The CCMA retains in its files an extensive volume of audiovisual and documentary material of great value with 340,000 hours of digitized images, constituting the largest documentary archive in Catalonia.

In relation to this archive, without which the recent history of Catalonia could not be explained audiovisually, the CCMA has collaboration agreements with various Catalan institutions, entities and universities, such as the National Archive of Catalonia, the Democratic Memorial, the Filmoteca of Catalonia, the Historical Archive of the Diputación de Barcelona, the Pompeu Fabra University or the Open University of Catalonia, among others.

Those who participate in this open doors will be able to attend a technical talk about the work done by the Documents of the CCMA and visit the TV3 file at the Sant Joan Despí facilities.

Since 2003, the TV3 documentation department has digitized the audiovisual background gradually and currently contains 1,282,972 references With about 340,000 hours of digitized images, which can be partially consulted on the TV3 portal to the letter.

The archive is a business, quality and informative rigor asset. But not only preserve TV3 emissions (news, programs ...), but also custody other collections.

The Department was born in 1983, while the television channel. The TV3 file meets two objectives: as a heritage background and as a production tool. It has the mission of preserving and treating the emissions and production of TV3, as well as to give documentary support (images / information) in all areas of the chain, with a competent and effective service for internal and external use. In addition, the file offers the possibility of exploitation for production in all audiovisual formats, uses or new platforms.

For its part, the file of Catalunya Ràdio It has been collecting a wide Sound Collection, which includes interviews, news, programs and transmissions of large events and that are also in digital format at the online service of Catalunya Ràdio to the letter.