Roger Smither has been involved internationally with FIAF; UNESCO; International Association of Sound Archives as well as representing the Imperial War Museum on a number of external bodies within the UK. He was heavily involved in the IWM transition from analogue to computerised cataloguing. Roger was heavily involved in film restoration projects on such titles as the"lost" film The New Lot (1996) , Der Magische Gurtel (2000); The Battle of Ancre and the Advance of the Tanks (2002); The Battle of The Somme (2005); and German Concentration Camps Factual Survey (2014).