Archiving the Audio-Visual Heritage

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• Agenda Preservation

  Looking Back/Looking Forward: A Symposium on Electronic Media Preservation convened May 31–June 1, 2002 at Downtown Community Television Center with a reception at MercerMedia. Organized by the Experimental Television Center with IMAP and Bay Area Video Coalition and funded by the NYS Council on the Arts Electronic Media and Film Program, the program covered physical preservation and remastering (including 1/2” open reel workflows), economics, media formats, collection assessment and documentation of artists’ instruments and ephemera, with presentations by Luke Hones, Heather Weaver, Kacey Koeberer, Mona Jimenez and Sarah Stauderman.

• Video Preservation Symposium Bibliography

  Conference packet with agenda and list of participants. June 13 -14, 1991 at the Museum of Modern Art.

• Learning More About Video Preservation Preservation

  Selected bibliography and online resource list for moving-image and audiovisual preservation, comprising journals, technical reports, handbooks, conference proceedings and institutional reports published between 1974 and 2001; contributors include AMIA, Ampex, 3M, UNESCO, FIAF, the Library of Congress and the National Archives. The record cites specific titles, articles and manuals, provides URLs for online bibliographies, and lists education and training programs and institutions such as Harvard, UCLA, George Eastman House, NYU, ARCHIMEDIA and the FIAF Summer School.

• Introduction to Archival Organization and Description: Access to Cultural Heritage Bibliography

• Preservation Planning and Management Preservation

  Preservation Planning and Management provides guidance and a list of consultants and resources for audiovisual preservation, organized under sections for consultants, project planning and management, collection assessment and surveys, collection management, appraisals, and resources. It cites James C. Scholtz’s Developing and Maintaining Video Collections in Libraries (Santa Barbara, CA: CLIO, 1989) and notes the Magnetic Media Preservation Sourcebook available from Media Alliance; listings are provided as a service and are not endorsements by Media Alliance or the Experimental Television Center. Named consultants and institutions (including Boston Art Conservation; Heritage Resource Management Associates; Hollywood Vaults; the Image Permanence Institute at RIT; VidiPax; and others) are described with services such as collection assessment, appraisal, storage and environmental surveys, disaster planning, grant consultation, cataloging, and technical research on temperature, humidity and pollutants.

• Issues in Capturing Related Histories Panel Preservation

  Panel with Joel Chadabe (Electronic Music Foundation), Alain Depocas (Daniel Langlois Foundation) and Woody Vasulka addressed preservation of media art performances, installations and digital works, focusing on digitization, emulation and documentation. They gave examples: Chadabe cited Luigi Nono and John Cage’s Bird Cage; Vasulka described scanning and OCR of about thirty thousand pages (Czech Republic contract ~$1,900, outputs RTF and TIF/PDF); Depocas summarized the Daniel Langlois documentation centre (open October 2000), its bilingual relational database, recent acquisitions and a Guggenheim partnership on the Variable Media questionnaire and emulation case studies.