Managing Audiovisual Records

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• Archiving the Audio-Visual Heritage Bibliography

• The Past Quarter Century and the Next Decade of Videotape Recording Bibliography

• Cataloging Preservation

  Describes efforts to establish compatible cataloging for media arts collections; Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP) distributes a MARC-compatible FileMaker Pro template developed by Jim Hubbard with involvement from NAMID staff including Henry Mattoon and former director Margaret Byrne. The template has been adopted by the Kitchen, the Experimental TV Center, Visual Studies Workshop, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Paper Tiger Television and Downtown Community Television Center; IMAP conducted a planning and feasibility study for an online tutorial supported by a Technology Planning Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. NAMID at the American Film Institute promotes a MARC-compatible union database and houses over 200,000 records.

• 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.

• Meeting the Challenges of Video Preservation: A Progress Report on Initiatives within the Media Arts Field by Media Alliance Preservation

  Media Alliance (founded 1979) is a New York State advocacy and service organization for independent media arts that led a 1991 national video survey and symposium with NYSCA, supported Deirdre Boyle's Video Preservation (1993), and applied to NEH for a cooperative catalog of over 8,000 titles across twelve New York institutions. The report documents Playback 1996 organized with BAVC (March 29–30, 1996) at the Museum of Modem Art with Getty and Andy Warhol Foundation funding, NAMID/FileMakerPro cataloging pilots producing over 1,800 records, and BAVC remastering and cleaning services for obsolete formats. Jim Hubbard authored the report and created Anthology Film Archives' first computer catalog under NAMID and a Jerome Foundation grant.

• 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.