Brecht Declercq Email & Phone Number

Lugano, Ticino, Zwitserland

Tunis, Tunesië

Paris / Dublin

Paris / Copenhagen

Paris / Hilversum

The main objective of the Preservation – Migration Commission (PMC) is to deal with aspects related to the preservation and migration of any kind of audiovisual content on a long-time perspective. This concerns analogue as well as digital material, and the different solutions in order to guarantee the accessibility of audiovisual contents.The topics dealt by the commission include:Analogue to Digital preservation processesDigital MigrationLong-term Digital PreservationDigital Media Asset Management systemsDigital Restoration and Quality improvementFormats and Standards

Freelance translations from Italian to Dutch and vice versa for broadcast media, internet and cultural purposes.

Gent Area, Belgium

Brussels Area, Belgium

Project coordinator VRT's EUscreen.eu contribution:-> Coaching a group of 3 archivists / editors contributing items from the VRT archives to EUscreen.eu.-> Representing VRT as a content provider in the EUscreen project consortium and in its successor EUscreen XL.VRT representative in international AV-archival organisations:-> Member of the FIAT/IFTA Media Management Commission.-> Member of the IASA Broadcast Section.-> Contact person for EBU (archival issues).Guest lecturer Lessius University Mechelen (Master in Investigative Journalism)

Brussels

Project leader digitization and annotation (DivA and VErDi projects):-> Project planning and preparation.-> General project coordination.-> Directing 10 employees.Member of the strategic team:-> Management contract negotiations (VRT-Flemish Govt, 2012-2016).-> Follow-up strategic projects 'Vlaanderen in Beeld' and 'Archipel'.-> Negotiations preparing for a Flemish Institute for Audiovisual Archiving (VIAA).

Researching a sustainable preservation policy and ways to give broader access to digital data (cq. audiovisual heritage) in Flanders (BOM-Vl project):-> Researching forms, needs and requirements in contextualised access to audiovisual heritage.-> Follow-up of workpackages concerning archival selection norms, metadata and interoperability standards and architectures for digital preservation and disclosure.

-> Preservation, conservation and annotation of spoken audio items and radio-programmes, with a focus on back-catalogue archiving.-> Archival research for journalists and reporters.-> Workflow set-up for digital asset management (radio), building bridges between IT-department and radio-archives.-> Coordinator & editor of www.75jaarradio.be.-> Upgrades of the search & annotation interface of our descriptive metadata database.

Master, International Relations & Conflict Management

Title of working paper: An unlikely squad of peace brokers: Sant'Egidio in contemporary second track peace diplomacy.

Master, Modern History, Graduation With Distinction

Focus on contemporary history of institutions and politics. Research and Master thesis on Belgo-Italian diplomatic relations in the 'anni.

Bachelor, History

Education record