Association

Activities

We regularly contribute to the public debate around the topics of freedom of expression, free access to information, digital self-defense, copyright and digital archives. To this end, we organize discussion events, initiate innovative technical projects, collaborate on publications, or develop positions on draft laws and write statements on them.

 

Publications

  • Building a European Digital Public Space – Strategies for taking back control from Big Tech companies
    Published by Alexander Baratsits via irights.info, November 2021

 

Conferences

  • Building a European Cultural Backbone – Labs & Conference
    Hackathon and conference on how to build a European civil society media network.
    May 2022, Linz Austria
    https://cba.media/labs-conference
  • #mediana17 & #mediana18 – public open spaces
    Conferences on media, culture and democracy
    https://www.mediana.at
  • Archivia 12 & Archivia 14
    International conferences around the topics of digital archives, democracy and (copyright) law
    https://www.archivia.at

 

Technical developments

On the technical side, we develop software open source.

  • Display Europe, 2023 – 2024
    Development and optimisation of language tools, decentral post-processing services, editors, tools for data syndication for the European media portal displayeurope.eu.
    Funded by „European Media Platforms“ of the European Union and by European Cultural Foundation
  • Mediverse, 2023 – 2024
    Development and optimisation of language tools, video support via Peertube, support for ActivityPub/Fediverse, and others.
    Funded by Fonds zur Förderung der Digitalen Transformation of RTR – Rundfunk & Telekom Regulierungs-GmbH
  • Democratic Personalisation and Recommender for Employees, 2022 – 2024
    Development of a personalised and non-biased content recommender algorithm.
    Funded by AK Digifonds of Arbeiterkammer Wien
  • REPCO – Replication & Collector, 2021 – 2022
    Developing a technical concept, datamodel and prototype for sustainable metadata exchange between audio-visual media platforms
    Project realisation by arso.xyz and cba.
    Funded by the European Cultural Foundation ECF and the City of Linz
       
  • fAIr by design, 2020 – 2023
    Involved as project partner in the development of techniques and models for fair algorithms.
    A project of TU Wien – Vienna University of Technology.
    Funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG
  • Open Audio Search, 2020 – 2021
    Speech-to-Text Toolkit for Free Knowledge Initiatives.
    Alexander Baratsits, Ewald Enzinger, Franz Heinzmann, Sid Moreira-da-Silva, Thomas Tremel.
    Funded by netidee of IPA (Internet Privatstiftung Austria)
  • UVisualize!, 2014 – 2016
    A storytelling and visualization tool created as part of the EU project „Creative Approaches to Living Cultural Archives“, available as a WordPress plugin.
    Ingo Leindecker & Ralf Traunsteiner.
    Funded by EU Culture, Bundeskanzleramt, Land OÖ, Stadt Linz
  • Dekanter, 2012 – 2013
    Online audio cut editor.
    Ingo Leindecker & Benedikt Reiter.
  • CBA YAAFE, 2011
    Methods for distinguishing music from speech parts in audio files.
    Ewald Wieser, FH St. Pölten (Download PDF, Project site)
    Funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG
  • CBA Processing API, 2007
    An API for Processing/Java tailored specifically for artistic data visualization.
    In collaboration with Office for Media Arts International, Mario Kishalmi and Ingo Leindecker.
    Funded by the Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture.
  • CBA Timeline, 2006
    Interactive 3D application for visualizing the dataset.
    Mario Kishalmi, Ingo Leindecker and Doris Prlic.
    Supported by the Media Art Fund Austria, KUPF Innovationstopf and the art festival Radiorevolten, Halle/Saale.

 

Our history

Read more about our history.

 

Association

Cultural Broadcasting Archive
Verein zur Förderung der digitalen Kommunikation
ZVR 1568700466
c/o Altebergenstraße 2D/1/1
A-1140 Wien

UID: ATU76208658

 

Contact

Office & Project Management: Ingo Leindecker
office@cba.media

 

Management board

Alexander Baratsits
Ingo Leindecker

 

Team

Alexander Baratsits
Sustainability Management & Legal Matters

Lisa Buttinger
Public Relations, Communication & User Support

Thomas Diesenreiter
IT & Web Development

Ingo Leindecker
Management, User Support & Web Development

Elisabeth Luger
Financial Controlling & Project Administration

Ngoc Tram Luu
Data Science & Web Development

Aslihan Özüyilmaz
UI/UX Design

 

Advisory Board

Chairmanship: Claudia Garád (Wikimedia Austria)
Thomas Diesenreiter (Kulturplattform Oberösterreich)
Sabine Fratzke (Bundesverband Freier Radios Deutschland)
Konrad Mitschka (ORF)

 

Founding members

Alexander Baratsits
Thomas Diesenreiter
Freier Rundfunk Oberösterreich GmbH
Ingo Leindecker

 

CBA is member of the association of Austrian media archives Medienarchive Austria.

2020 kindly supported by AK Zukunftsfonds of Arbeiterkammer Oberösterreich
2022 – 2024 kindly supported by AK Digifonds of Arbeiterkammer Wien

 

 

 

 

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