Warm greetings from the National Archives of Singapore, an institution of the National Library Board. We are pleased to announce that registration for the XXI International Oral History Association (IOHA) Virtual Conference, 23–27 August 2021, has begun. Details of the conference can be found here.

Originally scheduled to take place in 2020, the IOHA Conference was unfortunately postponed due to the ongoing pandemic. While we still cannot meet up physically, we look forward to your enthusiastic participation and insightful contributions to the exciting programme line-up that has been planned for you.

Oral history has grown tremendously around the world in recent times, aided by the availability of recording technologies, gaining institutional legitimacy and popular appeal. Our conference theme, Harmony & Disharmony: Bringing Together Many Voices, explores the diverse ways oral history is practiced, applied, and used. We hope the wide-ranging discussions on oral history will help us see the connections and disjunctions within the field, sparking new insights and connections.

Some of our programme highlights are keynote speeches from former head of the Oral History Centre, Singapore, Kwa Chong Guan, former president of the IOHA and Oral History Association of India, Indira Chowdhury and director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries, Douglas Boyd; a film screening by the Asian Film Archive; and a panel exploring COVID-19 as a catalyst for change in oral history. There will be workshops and paper, audiovisual and poster presentations from the international oral history community and much more.

We know our audience is spread across the world’s time zones, so we have scheduled three sessions across the day so everyone can tune in to at least one or two sessions comfortably and recorded sessions will be available to registered participants for a month after the conference.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support over the years and hope that the conference will provide valuable resources for you to learn and grow in your own line of work.

Thank you.

 

Warm regards,

Irene LL LIM

Principal Archivist | Registrar’s Office

National Archives of Singapore

National Library Board

Poster designed by Efi Sri Handayani, a freelance archivist in Indonesia.

The SEAPAVAA Executive Council would like to thank the following for enabling the success of our virtual 25^th conference held from 23 to 25 June 2021:

– Vietnam Film Institute (VFI), host institution

– Thai Film Archive (Public Organizations), technical team

– The University of Illinois, Media Preservation Department

– Sponsors for the conference: HS-ART Digital, ROTOMAKER LLC, and Digital Vision World

– Conference speakers, symposium presenters, moderators, and translators

We would also like to thank the attendees of our virtual conference via Zoom Webinar & Facebook Live for joining us for our 25^th Anniversary. There were 170 attendees who registered via Zoom Webinar and 30 attendees via Facebook Live.

Recordings of the conference sessions and the live Vietnamese cultural performance are available on SEAPAVAA’s Facebook page; and from 12 August 2021, all the recordings will also be viewable on SEAPAVAA’s YouTube channel.

We would also like to invite you to view a unique collection of classic Vietnamese animation with newly rescored music performed by current Vietnamese artists: RED BALLOONS: Music for 20^th century Vietnamese Animation by The Onion Cellar and TPD Centre for the Development of Movie Talents, supported by the Vietnam Film Institute, British Council Vietnam, L’Espace Hanoi, Goethe-Institut Hanoi, The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, and Dogma Collection. For more information, see the Red Balloons Programme.

These films will be available until 23 July 2021, with support from The University of Illinois, Media Preservation Department.

We hope to see you at SEAPAVAA’s 26^th Conference in 2022. Please visit SEAPAVAA’s corporate and conference website and Facebook page for more news and updates.

We are pleased to inform you that the registration is now open for SEAPAVAA’s virtual 25^th Conference, 23 – 25 June 2021. The registration details, programme & schedule, and other information regarding the virtual conference are available on SEAPAVAA’s conference website.

If interested, kindly register through this link: https://forms.gle/spcoXdszT8duPrBYA

Attendance at the virtual 25^th conference is limited. Successful registrants will receive the link to their selected Zoom webinar room by 21 June 2021.

Other interested attendees may also tune in to the live stream of the virtual conference on SEAPAVAA’s Facebook page (facebook.com/seapavaa).

The deadline for registration for the virtual 25^th conference is 20 June 2021.

For inquiries, please contact the SEAPAVAA Secretariat (secretariat@seapavaa.net / secretarygeneral@seapavaa.net).

SEAPAVAA will be commemorating SEAPAVAA’s 25^th anniversary with an online photo gallery on SEAPAVAA’s website (https://www.seapavaa.net).

Please share your memorable photos from any SEAPAVAA event captured over the years. Submit your photos to the SEAPAVAA Secretariat (secretariat@seapavaa.net) between 1-30 June 2021.

Provide the following information on each photo:

• Name of event
• Year the photo was taken
• Photo credits

Whilst efforts will be made to upload submitted photos, the Secretariat reserves the right to select photos to represent as many SEAPAVAA historical moments, memories and events as possible.

For the first time, SEAPAVAA is holding a virtual archival gems screening prior to the conference. The Archival Gem Screening has always been a highlight of SEAPAVAA’s annual conferences, showcasing the preserved treasures from SEAPAVAA members’ collections. These gems will be published between 28 May – 22 June 2021. Check them out on SEAPAVAA’s Facebook page and share about your favourites on your social media platforms.

The Deadline for the Call for Presentations for the 2021 IASA Conference (Closing the gap for a new generation of sound and audiovisual archives) is extended until 28 May 2021. The 2021 IASA Conference will be held online from 27 – 30 September 2021.

As part of this extension, IASA is looking to increase the number of proposals from Asia and Australia.

IASA welcome proposals for conference presentations on the following topics:

• From cataloguing to interoperable metadata
• AI applications for discovery and access
• Copyright and ethics
• Digital preservation and conservation
• Research, dissemination, and publication
• Digital content management
• The current situation and problems in preserving our audio-visual memory
• New profiles in audiovisual archives and training

For more information on the IASA Conference and details on how to register your proposal, please check this link: https://2021.iasa-web.org/call-presentations

If you have any questions, suggestions or comments, please do not hesitate to write to the IASA Conference Planning Committee at conferences@iasa-web.org

We are pleased to announce that Linda Tadic will deliver the keynote address at SEAPAVAA’s Virtual 25^th  Conference on 23 – 25 June 2021.

Linda Tadic is the Founder/CEO of Digital Bedrock, a managed digital preservation service that helps libraries, archives, museums, producers, studios, artists, and individuals preserve their digital content. She has over 35 years of experience in leading preservation, metadata, and digital production operations at organizations such as ARTstor, HBO, and the Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia.

She is currently an adjunct professor in the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Moving Image Archive Studies programme teaching courses in Digital Asset Management and Media Description and Access. Previously, she was an adjunct professor in the New York University (NYU) Moving Image Archiving and Preservation programme (courses in collection management and cataloguing and metadata).

She consults and lectures on digital asset management, audiovisual and digital preservation, the environmental impact of digital preservation, copyright, and metadata, with clients as diverse as WNET/Thirteen, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, SBS (Australia), Dunhuang Research Academy (China), ESPN, and the Missouri History Museum.

She is co-author of the book Descriptive Metadata for Television: an End-to-End Introduction, and was editor of the revised FIAF Moving Image Cataloguing Manual.  She is a founding member and former President of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), and is currently on The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Coordinating Committee.

She has presented on “The Environmental Impact of Digital Preservation” at several international conferences since 2015.

Look out for the conference details (i.e., programme, registration, etc.) which will be progressively updated on the SEAPAVAA conference at https://seapavaaconference.com.

The Iranian National Television Archive in collaboration with the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO, has recently completed its translation of the third edition (2016) of Audiovisual Archiving: Philosophy and Principles in Farsi.

The Audiovisual Archiving: Philosophy and Principles is a publication by UNESCO under the UNESCO’s Memory of the World programme. Written by Dr. Ray Edmondson the Founding President of SEAPAVAA and an Associate Individual Member of SEAPAVAA, the book provides a rationale and theoretical basis for audiovisual archiving. The first edition was first released in 1998. The third edition (2016) is a revised and updated successor to the second edition, published in 2004.

The book was originally published in English and thus far has been translated into Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese, Spanish, Burmese, Thai, and Farsi. All versions are available on https://bangkok.unesco.org/content/audiovisual-archiving-philosophy-and-principles.

This IN FOCUS  (Journal of Cinema and Media Studies) invites proposals for essays addressing the crucial, generative, and transformative history of 16mm film as a tool of making, storing, preserving, distributing, and showing moving images and sounds.  For almost 100 years, this uniquely important film format has upended and reshaped a vast realm of creative, political, governmental, sexual, educational, recreational, informational, and experimental activity. This dossier begins a conversation about the histories and impact of the 16mm film, working to catalyze a fuller understanding of this particular moving image/sound infrastructure and the many practices and expressive forms it enabled.  Mapping its lasting, diverse and global impacts will be a priority of this IN FOCUS feature.

Contributions may take the form of case studies or surveys, conceptual explorations, formal/artistic examinations, or institutional and technological studies.

Dates to Note:

• If interested to contribute, please share a brief 150-word abstract or statement of interest by 31 March 2021. Send to: Haidee Wasson (haidee.wasson@concordia.ca), Professor, Film and Media Studies, Concordia University, Montreal

• Final Essays: 2500 words; Due Date: 1 January 2022

• Publication Date of the Dossier: Potentially in early 2023

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) is the only national audiovisual archive in Australia, uniquely placed to be a leader in the collection, preservation, curation and sharing of audiovisual heritage. NFSA’s headquarters is in Acton, Canberra at McCoy Circuit, ACTON 2601 Act Australia, with offices in Sydney and Melbourne. 

NFSA is a Full Institutional Member of SEAPAVAA. 

The NFSA Board is looking for a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NFSA. The job description and requirements are as listed below.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Under section 9 of the NFSA Act 2008, the NFSA is governed by a Board. The CEO is appointed by the Board after consultation with the Minister under Section 22 of the NFSA Act. The CEO holds office on a full-time basis and may be appointed for up to five years. The CEO is not a member of the Board, although they attend Board meetings, and are responsible for the day-to-day administration of the NFSA.

The CEO of the NFSA is the institution’s most senior executive and responsible for its overall strategy and day-to-day management and the leadership of its organisational culture, under the Board’s oversight and governance.

Location

The position is based at the NFSA’s offices in Acton, Canberra, with regular travel to Sydney and Melbourne offices.

Conditions of employment

The CEO is classified as a Principal Executive Officer Band B under the Remuneration Tribunal’s Principal Executive Office (‘PEO’) Structure. Under the PEO Structure, the Remuneration Tribunal determines a reference rate specific to each position, and provides accountable authorities, in this case, the NFSA Board, with a limited range of discretion around this rate in which to set remuneration. Remuneration can be negotiated within the parameters established by the Tribunal.

Indicative remuneration range: $270,000 – $300,000, with the possibility of an increase of five percent after one full year in the role. Performance payment may be applicable.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading, inspiring, and developing the team of more than 160 skilled archivists, curators, historians, audiovisual technicians, and other employees based at the head office in Canberra and smaller offices in Sydney and Melbourne.

• Manage the annual budget of approximately A$31 million.

• Understanding NFSA’s stakeholders and building and enriching a strong network of relationships across industry and Government

• Driving and ensuring the digitisation of NFSA’s collection

• Enhancing the NFSA’s quality and profile and redefining NFSA’s physical and virtual presence

• Driving access and engagement in Australia particularly through digital platforms

• Maintaining a relevant acquisition program of Australia’s relevant audiovisual material and related artefacts

• Leading a successful archiving program and developing partnerships as Australia’s leading digitisation centre

• Refining the approach to NFSA’s client services

• Ensuring the continued financial viability of NFSA

• Developing NFSA’s long-term and short-term strategic direction

• Promoting and supporting innovation

• Working with the NFSA Board and ensuring corporate governance requirements in Australia are met

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Could be an experienced general manager from the arts, media or entertainment industries

• May be an administrator from an arts organisation or a gallery, library, archive, or museum, preferably with experience in the audiovisual archive subsector

• May be a successful digital content leader from the film, television, radio, or digital media sector

• Has strong curatorial sensibility

• Has good knowledge of Australian history

• Has a sense of Australian cultural significance and a passion for audiovisual media

• Has strong leadership qualities and have a proven capacity to promote and maintain a positive, productive and inclusive organisational culture

• Has led and developed significant teams of people in a structured environment

• Has experience leading technicians and creatives

• Has experience bringing strong local and global networks

• Has a strong track record working with government and funding bodies

• Has proven success in attracting funding and driving strategic outcomes

• Academic qualifications from well-regarded institutions are anticipated and higher degrees are desirable

Selection Criteria

The core Australian Public Service Commission merit-based criteria for agency head positions apply to this position.

The following text lists the core Australian Public Service Commission merit-based criteria for agency head positions:

• Demonstrates high-level leadership and vision
• Manages large and/or complex operations
• High level of judgment
• Demonstrates a high standard of professional and personal integrity and capacity to promote these in an organisation

Should you be interested in this position, kindly apply through NFSA’s Recruitment Portal. Applications close at midnight on 1 March 2021.

If you have any inquiries, please contact Stacey Colver, Manager, People & Culture at (02) 6248 2111 or ceo.recruitment@nfsa.gov.au.

For more information regarding this position, please refer to this link.