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IASA 2014
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual ArchivesConference - Cape Town 5-9 October 2014Karen du Toit feedback
CONNECTING CULTURES CONTENT CONTEXT COLLABORATION
THE CENTRE FOR THE BOOK
THE CENTRE FOR THE BOOK
VIEW FROM THE CENTRE FOR THE BOOK
THE COMPANY’S GARDENS
SABC DELEGATES
WE WERE THERE
QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, CAPE TOWN
IASA 2014
DAY 1
5 OCT
Open meetings:
- Training & Education Committee - Technical Committee
BROADCAST ARCHIVES SECTIONM-Net’s journey to an effective archive
Warren Robbins – Media Coordinator for MNet
M-NET ARCHIVES
2001 start of Archives “Business was not aware of the true value
of the Archives” If to survive as an archive > Interventions
1. New structure 2. Value in promotion of archives 3. Roles in archive section changed
M-NET ARCHIVES CONT.
4. Research & Cataloguing team established
5. Media Coordinator roles created 6. Media Asset Management Support Team 7. Project Management team:
- Inventory project - Digitization - Off-site storage - Legacy backlog and outsourcing
8. Vendor
M-NET ARCHIVES ACHIEVEMENTS (WARREN ROBBINS)
Structure Support from Executive Management Archives inclusive and placed within
Group Archivists “becoming” True reflection Effective staff compliment
RESEARCH ARCHIVES SECTION
1. Volume and Noise: Mass publishing of the NRK Archives (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) – within 5 years
2. Voting in of new RAS officers 3. Signed up4. IASA Archives Committee
IASA 20146 Oct
DAY 2
NEW IASA BOARD
ASA Executive Board (2014-2017): President: Ilse Assmann Vice President (Conferences): Bruce Gordon Vice President (Membership): Judith Gray Vice President (Training): Pio Pellizzari http://www.iasa-web.org/executive-board
KEYNOTE BY VERNE HARRIS
SPECTRES OF ARCHIVES AND LIBERATION
“Ghosts in the archives” Presence and immediacy created by the film
- living dead Absence about what is present
Megan McShea
photo on Twitter
VERNE HARRIS:4 KEY ABSENCES IN ARCHIVES
1. Absent authors/ creators (text/film) Can leave a trace when no longer exist Ghost of person, different who he us now 2. Different content Structurally full of absent content Exclusion even in most comprehensive of records 3. Absent context Wrap with as many metadata, but context changing 4. Absent place of consignation Original order and original location
VERNE HARRIS: “HAUNTED BY PAST”
- Focus on post- apartheid archives 1. Archives accessible?2. Using archives to redress post- apartheid3. Using voices from archives from those
excluded previously.4. Transforming public archives in auditors of
record-keeping
VERNE HARRIS: THE HOPES OF THE POST-APARTHEID PERIOD NOT REALIZED!
The work of National Archives in trouble!- Vision of 1990s gone- Underfunded- System not delivering (Conclusions by the Archival Platform - detailed analysis over last two years)- Does not measure well against key objectives - Public Archives not equipped to do records keeping- Undermines service delivery and creates environment in which corruption
thrives- Oral history projects problematic- Huge potential of digitization not harnessed - Archives remain domain of elite- Only fraction of their holdings found online Public Archives remain geared to paper based records- Ironically public access remain more restricted- Promotion of Access to Info Act used for gate keeping!
CURATING THE HIDDEN YEARS MUSIC ARCHIVES
Dr Lizabé Lambrechts (Documentation Centre of Music, Stellenbosch Univ)
The Hidden Years Music Archive
David Marks He recorded everything
– huge collection of music archives in South Africa
3rd Ear Music Facebook Domus Importance to SA Music
heritage
Kirstenbosch Gardens
LAUNCH TC 05
IASA PUBLISHES AUTHORITATIVE GUIDE ON HANDLING AND STORAGE OF SOUND AND VIDEO RECORDINGSTC 05
FUNCTION AT KIRSTENBOSCH
IASA 2014
DAY 3
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF ARCHIVAL PRESERVATION OF AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS IN THE NATIONAL FILM, VIDEO AND SOUND ARCHIVES OF SOUTH AFRICA
Dr Nthabiseng Ncala Current AV scernario Identifying future preservation Oldest film 1898
COST OF INACTION CALCULATOR
Bertram Lyons The end of analogue audiovisual media:
the cost of inaction & what you can do about it
COI
Assumptions:• We have invested in physical AV collections• Degradation and obsolence are real• Digitization only option• Items not digitized will be lost
• Need persuasive arguments: ROI• 11 variables in COI calculator (beta)• https://coi.avpreserve.com
PROFESSIONAL VISITSDistrict 6 Museum
DISTRICT 6 MUSEUM SOUND ARCHIVE
Oral History project
DISTRICT 6 MUSEUM
DAY 4IASA 2014
AN ARCHIVAL APPROACH TO PROCESSING MIXED MEDIA COLLECTIONS MEGAN MCSHEA ( ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION)
ACCESS TO MIXED MEDIA ARCHIVES
Enable all archivists Improve physical &
intellectual access to AV
Measurable standards
Guidelines
American Archivist Vol 68, no 2
ARTISTS AS ARCHIVISTS
Diana Chester & Heidi Stalla (Play audio on Evernote – “Call to prayer”)
ARTISTS AS ARCHIVISTS
To get important cultural heritage out into the community
Preservation, archiving, but also creating new compositions
Pave way for healing and reconciliation Practise of form-shifting (new
methodology)
ARTISTS AS ARCHIVISTS
-Creating sonic archival material-- Potentially controversial use of archival material and the role that artists can play as archivists-Warning about custodian and caretaker roles!-- Not to replace archive material!
CREATIVE RE-USE OF DUTCH AND BRITISH SOUND ARCHIVES LIZZY KOMEN
SlideShare
CREATIVE RE-USE
An increasing amount of sounds and images from European archives, museums and libraries are available for creative re-use. For the Europeana Creative Challenge, we’re looking for innovative projects that use archival material available via Europeana (europeana.eu) in a creative way. Send in your own idea to create, for example, a mash-up, an app or a game at ecreativechallenges2014.istart
Hannes CoetzeeAll in One
7 Steps Minstrels Goema Troupe
CAPE MUSIC SHOWCASE CONCERT
ALL IN ONESTEVE NEWMAN, ERROL DYERS & HILTON SCHILDER
Steve Newman response in Daily Maverick
IASA 2014
DAY 5
FROM BROADCASTING TO ARCHIVINGILSE ASSMANN
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