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2018 SEAPAVAA Training Needs Survey

Background

Training may be used to develop competency in specific professional and technical tasks, to provide knowledge, to assist in planning and to bring about organisational changes in attitudes. Internationally, specific training for audiovisual archives is difficult to locate and expensive.

SEAPAVAA has a long history of providing training to members SEAPAVAA and aims to provide training programmes that are accessible and tailored to suit the conditions of the region.

In 2013, SEAPAVAA conducted a Training Needs Survey amongst its members to help in planning for the association’s training workshops. As a result of this survey, the priorities for workshops in the next few years were determined. The highest priority identified in this survey was for training on disaster planning and recovery of audiovisual collections. In 2014, a workshop “Developing a Disaster and Recovery Plan for an Audiovisual Collection” was presented to participants from across the Southeast Asia-Pacific region. In 2015, two workshops on “Advocacy: The Why And How Of It” and “Succession Planning: A Step To A Sustainable Archive” were organised. In 2016, a workshop on “Caring For Collections” was held.

SEAPAVAA Training Needs Survey 2018

In 2018, SEAPAVAA is conducting an updated Training Needs Survey to build on the previous information as well as help the association to assess how the profession has grown over the past few years.

The updated survey adds topics that are of increasing relevance to members across the region, such as managing Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property. The results of the updated survey will translate into prioritised training programmes for members in the coming years, to meet the most urgent audiovisual archiving training needs of the region.

Please complete all the questions even if these are not important to your organisation.

The information received from this survey will remain anonymous and no organisation will be able to be identified.

Submission Deadline

This updated survey is being sent to all SEAPAVAA members. The survey will close on Thursday, 31 May 2018.

You may answer either the PDF version or the Google Form version of the survey. The PDF version will be posted on the SEAPAVAA corporate website (www.seapavaa.net).

If you opt for the PDF version, please email the completed survey on or before 31 May 2018, to the SEAPAVAA Secretariat at secretariat@seapavaa.net, with the subject header “2018 SEAPAVAA Training Needs Survey – Completed Form”.

Downloadable PDF version:

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ICCROM Announces Two International Courses on First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis

Culture cannot wait. Be it the rescue of the ancient manuscripts in besieged Timbuktu or the careful salvage of destroyed temples in the earthquake that struck the Kathmandu Valley, affected communities always strive to protect their cultural heritage following an emergency. Yet, where does one start, and who can help affected communities in recovering their heritage? Questions such as how and when to intervene in an unfolding humanitarian crisis continue to be problematic for national agencies tasked with both the humanitarian relief and at-scale recovery of cultural heritage. First Aid for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAC) emphasizes coordinated emergency preparedness and response for tangible and intangible cultural heritage. It is based on a field-tested three-step framework for providing first aid to cultural heritage, which can be adapted to any emergency context, be it the result of conflict or disaster, and is especially useful in planning at scale responses for securing and stabilizing different types of cultural heritage during complex emergency situations. Developing a culture of preparedness, ongoing risk management, collaboration as well as coordination with mainstream emergency actors forms a core component of the training.

This year, ICCROM will be organising two FAC courses:

FAC 2018 international course, the Netherlands

Dates: 31 July-24 August, 2018
Application deadline: 23 March, 2018
Place: Tilburg, the Netherlands
Working language: English
A limited number of scholarships are available! More information is available here

FAC-Africa, Mali

Using the recent conflict in Mali as a central case study, this course will offer insights gained in recovering cultural heritage in tandem with humanitarian recovery. For the first time, this course will be offered in French!

Dates:  12-28 November 2018
Application deadline:  29 March 2018
Place:  Bamako, Mali
Working languages: English and French
Scholarships are available! More information in English and French is available here.

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22nd SEAPAVAA CONFERENCE, April 6th-12th, 2018, Bangkok, Thailand: CALL FOR TRAVEL GRANT APPLICATIONS

REI Foundation Limited has agreed to offer sponsorship to the 22nd SEAPAVAA Conference in April 2018, the third consecutive year that this support will be offered. SEAPAVAA (SouthEast Asia-Pacific AudioVisual Archive Association) is an association of organisations and individuals dedicated to the development for audiovisual archiving in Southeast Asia and the Pacific to preserve access to the region’s rich audiovisual heritage.

The theme of the 2018 conference is “AV Archiving Beyond Boundaries”. RFL sponsorship will help support competent professionals with lesser financial resources to participate in the conference, to be held this year in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Sustainable Audiovisual Collections through Collaboration

Proceedings of the 2016 Joint Technical Symposium

Edited by Rachael Stoeltje, Vicki Shively, George Boston, Lars Gaustad, and Dietrich Schueller.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017, 222p.

ISBN: 978-0-253-02713-9

The final published proceedings of the 2016 Joint Technical Symposium is now available for purchase through Amazon (http://tinyurl.com/ybeq852t) and through Indiana University Press (http://go.iu.edu/1DCy).

This publication is the result of the most recent Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) which was held in 2016 in Singapore, and addressed the theme, “Sustainable Audiovisual Collections Through Collaboration.” This ninth JTS was co-organized by the Southeast Asia-Pacific Audiovisual Archive Association (SEAPAVAA) and the National Archives of Singapore and as always, under the auspices of the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives (CCAAA).

The Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) has historically been an international scientific and technical event featuring presenters who focus on issues of particular importance to audiovisual archives and archivists. Organized every few years since 1983 by the various audiovisual archives associations now forming the CCAAA, it provides an opportunity for colleagues around the world and those interested in the field to meet and share information about the preservation of original image and sound materials.

Shaping the Future of Audiovisual Archiving: New International Think Tank Identifies Strategic Priorities for the Field

The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision today is publishing its new White Paper, Towards a New Audiovisual Think Tank for Audiovisual Archivists and Cultural Heritage Professionals. The White Paper identifies strategic priorities for audiovisual archiving in the coming decade and puts forward 10 concrete recommendations for collective action.

The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision is releasing its new White Paper, Towards a New Audiovisual Think Tank for Audiovisual Archivists and Cultural Heritage Professionals. The White Paper, the first effort from a new ‘AV Think Tank’ on audiovisual archiving initiated by Sound and Vision, aims to facilitate stakeholders active in the preservation of audiovisual heritage to identify their strategic priorities over the coming decade. The paper also puts forward 10 recommendations for collective action to address these priorities.

Written by Peter B. Kaufman of Intelligent Television and MIT, the White Paper is the result of months of open conversation with leading experts in the field representing various positions, archives, and cultural heritage institutions. The White Paper was publicly presented at the FIAT/IFTA 2017 World Conference in October in Mexico City, and input from many of the delegates was incorporated.

Johan Oomen, head of R&D at Sound and Vision, stated, “This White Paper is one of the first steps that we are taking to establish a new international thought leadership group – the AV Think Tank – with experts from around the globe. Through the AV Think Tank, we aim to lay the groundwork for an AV archiving sector that enables more long-term use of its assets, more learning, and more educational activity.”

The White Paper is meant to start a conversation with the audiovisual archiving and cultural heritage communities and within the AV Think Tank itself. It addresses the current context of the work that audiovisual archivists and cultural heritage professionals do and many of the challenges they face. It puts forth ten recommendations as strategic priorities for the coming ten years around which action, research and development, and resources could be organised. Each recommendation is accompanied by a timeline of first collective actions to take.

The AV Think Tank is committed to following up on these recommendations through a series of activities. The AV Think Tank is creating task forces and working groups focused on these issues. These groups will conduct further research and connect with other relevant stakeholder groups; lay the groundwork for policy and practice recommendations through the creation of handbooks, strategy papers, and other publications; and develop actions plans that connect directly to the interests of AV archivists and cultural heritage professionals. Through these activities, this group of international experts, in consultation with the wider community, is working to articulate an international research and action agenda for our shared strategic priorities for the next ten years.

The White Paper can be found at www.beeldengeluid.nl/avthinktank or downloaded directly as PDF here.

To join the conversation about our shared strategic priorities, follow and comment on the White Paper on Medium here.

The AV Think Tank invites comment from and conversation with anyone interested in the present and future of our shared moving image cultural heritage.

To contact the AV Think Tank, please email: avthinktank@beeldengeluid.nl

Winter School for Audiovisual Archiving – 7, 8 & 9 February 2018

Still a few places available for Winter School for Audiovisual Archiving

For its third year in a row the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision organises Winter School for Audiovisual Archiving. Registration is open until December 18 2017. The application form can be found here. The training will be held on 7,8 & 9 February 2018 at Sound and Vision in Hilversum, The Netherlands. There are still a few places available.

This three-day training session offers audiovisual collection managers the necessary knowledge and skills to implement or improve the digital preservation management of their audiovisual collections.

The Winter School is a unique three-day training in Hilversum on preserving audiovisual collections. The training sessions offer audiovisual collection holders a useful mix of lectures, hands-on workshops and interactive sessions with renown experts. For the Winter School 2018 we like to announce the following guest speakers:

Bojan Kosi, head of digital archive at RTV Slovenija’s Mediateka
Eva Verdoodt, digital archivist & business process analyst at VIAA (BE)
Anne Gant, head of film conservation and digital access at EYE Filmmuseum (NL)

The Winter School for Audiovisual Archiving is an initiative from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in collaboration with AVA_Net.

The Winter School has been developed for collection holders and archivists from the Netherlands and abroad. The course language will be English.

Programme

The Winter School is about providing practical knowledge: we start with the basis for digital preservation of audiovisual materials and finish with mapping participants’ own insights and policy on conserving them. Topics we will discuss during the Winter School include:

Risks for digital durability,
Applying OAIS model for audiovisual collections,
Digital preservation planning,
Ingest & acquisition,
File formats & data management,
Data storage and migration.

More information on the Winter School and registration can be found here.

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Moving Image and Sound Collections for Archivists Published by Society of American Archivists

CHICAGO—Moving Image and Sound Collections for Archivists, a new book by Anthony Cocciolo, offers best practice for specific media formats to preserve and make accessible the moving image and sound record. This book is for every archivist (or archivist-in-training) who has opened a box or file cabinet or otherwise unearthed some carrier of moving image and sound and has wondered what to do. You may not recognize the format, know if it held video or audio, or know how to describe the item. It’s even possible that you don’t recognize it as a carrier of moving image and sound. Most archivists encounter and most archives contain some form of moving image and sound material. Cocciolo applies concepts of appraisal, description, and accessioning to audiovisual collections, providing a solid grounding for archivists in environ-ments where resources for description, digitization, and storage are scarce.

“As a starting point for archivists working with the incredible range of moving image and sound materials found in collections today, you could not ask for better. Readers will come away feeling informed and empowered. . . . Cocciolo’s book should have a place on the shelves of archivists who want to provide the very best care for their collections, which is to say, every archivist,” said Snowden Becker, program manager for Moving Image Archive Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

About the author: Anthony Cocciolo is interim dean and associate professor at Pratt Institute School of Information in New York City. His research and teaching are in born-digital archiving, digitization, and computer-mediated access as well as moving image and sound archiving. He earned his doctorate from the Communication, Media, and Learning Technologies Design program at Teachers College, Columbia University, and received a BS in computer science from the University of California, Riverside.

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IASA 2017 Conference Dinner

Dear IASA 2017 Berlin conference delegate,

Whether it is your first time at a IASA conference or if you are a long-time IASA veteran, do not forget to purchase a ticket for the closing conference dinner on Thursday 21st September at 7:00pm!

The IASA Conference dinner is an integral feature of any IASA conference, providing a lively, yet casual atmosphere to interact with new colleagues, rekindle old ties, or seal new bonds of friendship born out of the week’s events.

This year’s Conference dinner is just a few blocks (a two-minute walk) from the conference venue at a quaint and picturesque neighbourhood restaurant: Alter Krug in Dahlem, a friendly, traditional German restaurant with a large adjoining beer garden (http://alter-krug-berlin.de/).

Dinner tickets are only €25 per person (excluding drinks) and include a choice between two set courses designed specially by Alter Krug for IASA attendees: one is vegetarian, the other includes meat. Read more about the dinner here: http://2017.iasa-web.org/social-events.

So, now that you’re hungry and excited for this year’s IASA Conference closing dinner, make a quick visit to the IASA conference website to purchase your ticket before they are sold out!

Just visit https://iasa-webcart.org/registration to pick up a ticket! Select the “Add to Cart” button just next to the “IASA 2017 Conference: social events” option and follow the instructions to purchase a dinner ticket.

The IASA Board (shown in the photo below testing the Alter Krug menu in March 2017) looks forward to seeing you all there!

Best wishes
Richard Ranft
IASA webmanager
www.iasa-web.org

IASA 2017 Early Bird Rates Extended to 25 August 2017!

The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) 48th Annual Conference will be hosted by the Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany from 17-21 September 2017.

Due to many colleagues being away and returning from summer vacations, the IASA Board decided to extend the ‘early bird’ conference registration rates by another week, to 25 August.

So if you have not registered, please do so this week, while the cheaper rates apply. But hurry – our most popular conference workshops are already fully booked! And make sure you reserve your place for our farewell dinner!

http://2017.iasa-web.org/registration

Best wishes,

Richard Ranft
IASA web manager / Head of Sound & Vision, The British Library

IASA 2017 Annual Conference

The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) 48th Annual Conference will be hosted by the Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany from 17-21 September 2017. Conference theme: Integration and Innovation: Bringing Workflows and Formats Together in the Digital Era

Dear friends,

It is a pleasure to announce that the Early Bird 2017 IASA Conference Registration is now open. Please visit the conference website, review the schedule of events, and register for this auspicious gathering of the sound and audiovisual archival community.

Conference website: http://2017.iasa-web.org

Registration page: http://2017.iasa-web.org/registration

It is also a pleasure to extend to all registered IASA Conference delegates, an invitation from the IASA German / Swiss-German Branch to attend their local conference, free of charge, on 15-16 September 2017. One of the many highlights of this event will be Dietrich Schüller’s tutorial IASA-TC 05: Handling and Storage of Audio and Video Carriers presented in German on Friday 15th September.

More information on this collegial and lively event can be found here:

http://www.iasa-online.de/iasa_tagung.html (link is external)