(http://www.archives@risk.org)
Background
- An Inter Organisational Group on Archive at Risk was created in February 2006, following the session on endangered archives held at the World Electronic Media Forum – WEMF II, on the occasion of the World Summit of the Information Society (Tunis, 15-16 November 2005). The Group consisted of:
- United Nations, represented by Lily Chau, Antonio da Silva
- UNESCO, represented by Joie Springer
- WBU-World Broadcasting Union, represented by David Baylor
- EBU/UER – European Broadcasting Union, represented by David Wood
- FIAT/IFTA – International Federation of Television Archive, represented by Herbert Hayduck, Sue Malden, Dominique Saintville
- Matt White (independent)
FIAT/IFTA has joined with other audiovisual archive organisations to assign organisation of the Archives@Risk initiative to the CCAAA (Coordinating Council for Audiovisual Archive Associations). Sue Malden is the executive coordinator.
About Archives@Risk Project / Website
Millions of hours of film, television and radio are at Risk!
Worn by time, eaten away by acidity, victims of wars, dictatorships, or natural disasters, the audiovisual archives of humanity are in jeopardy. No country, even the most advanced in terms of digitization and conservation, will escape this risk of destruction.
We cannot resign ourselves to losing entire volumes of the worldwide audiovisual heritage and thus endangering the cause of preservation of the world’s cultural identities. It is imperative to ensure that the world’s population is able to transmit their audiovisual memory to future generations.
The objective of the Archives@Risk project is to develop lobbying activities on behalf of endangered archives throughout the world, so that resources can be found to save and give access to the world audiovisual heritage. The first stage of the project is dedicated to setting up the Archives@Risk web site, raising awareness of the imminence to this part of the worlds cultural heritage, offering professional media management resources, and identifying sources of funding for these archives.
About the Call
CCAAA invites SEAPAVAA members to submit endangered footage from their audiovisual collections to the Archives@Risk web site, to illustrate the richness of audiovisual archives that are potentially in danger. The submission guidelines are as follows:
- Choose any typical endangered footage of 2 to 3 minutes duration or less.
- Contextualise the footage, that is, explain what the footage is about, why it is important and considered to be endangered.
- The preferred format is .MOV files but any YouTube supported format is acceptable. The Archives@Risk web site will be served through YouTube.
- Submit footage to Sue Malden, Executive Coordinator of the Archives@Risk project –sue.malden@btopenworld.com.
- Submission deadline – 10 October 2013.
- Direct enquiries to Sue Malden – sue.malden@btopenworld.com.
Issued by: SEAPAVAA Executive Council, on behalf of CCAAA
Date: 17 September 2013