This session consists of 4 presentations and a joint Q&A with the presenters. The session contains:
➺ Ketevani Davitashvili, Laura Alhach - Advancements in Archival Practices: Insight into the FRAME Advanced Access 2023 (Short presentation)
➺ Julia Colleen Miller, Nick Ward - PARADISEC creates tertiary-level curricula, focusing on discipline-specific archiving practices in Linguistics, Anthropology, and Ethnomusicology (Long presentation)
➺ Jean-Baptiste Masson - A manual for the restoration of the sound of amateur films (Short presentation)
➺ Kimberly Tarr - Praxis and Partnership: How Archival Training Programs Support the Audiovisual Archiving Field (Short presentation)
**Abstracts:**
➺ Advancements in Archival Practices: Insight into the FRAME Advanced Access 2023
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Ketevani Davitashvili, Laura Alhach (Short presentation)
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The FRAME Advanced 2023 training provided an exceptional immersion into the practices of esteemed institutions like INA, Cinémathèque, and BNF. The training showcased presentations and discussions revolving around digitization initiatives and archival strategies. INA's pioneering efforts in video-on-demand services and inventive utilization of social media platforms exemplified a forward-looking approach to enhancing archive accessibility. Moreover, a guided tour of the National Library highlighted the transformative potential of AI in archival processes.
Looking ahead to the forthcoming IASA conference, the focus will be on DoblAI, an advanced AI tool for audio segmentation and speaker diarization. This innovative tool employs sophisticated video analysis algorithms to accurately and efficiently transcribe, translate, and dub videos. DoblAI signifies a notable advancement, offering archival professionals a powerful solution for managing and disseminating audiovisual content across diverse linguistic and cultural contexts. The presentation will dive into its functionalities and implications for archival practices in an AI-driven era, emphasizing its transformative impact on the preservation and accessibility of cultural heritage materials.
Beyond its role as a training, FRAME Advanced 2023 facilitated a sense of community and collective growth among participants, leaving us enriched and motivated to grow as professionals. As preparations are underway to share the insights gleaned from this transformative workshop, there is a palpable eagerness to convey the innovations and learnings derived from the event.
➺ PARADISEC creates tertiary-level curricula, focusing on discipline-specific archiving practices in Linguistics, Anthropology, and Ethnomusicology
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Julia Colleen Miller, Nick Ward (Long presentation)
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Established in 2003, the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) is a collaborative project based at three Australian universities: The University of Sydney, The University of Melbourne, and the Australian National University. Serving as a digital archive and access platform, PARADISEC focuses on preserving endangered materials from the Pacific region, encompassing Oceania, East and Southeast Asia. These materials are primarily contributed by researchers specialising in Linguistics, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, and related fields.
Operating within academic research institutions provides PARADISEC with direct engagement opportunities with students and researchers. Recognising the importance of integrating archival practices into tertiary education, PARADISEC has developed tailored curricula for Linguistics, Anthropology, and Ethnomusicology. The curriculum emphasises data management, archiving, and digital preservation, with a focus on safeguarding linguistic and cultural heritage.
Through practical training sessions, students acquire essential skills for managing and preserving diverse data types, including linguistic recordings and ethnographic materials. They are introduced to industry-standard tools and techniques for digitisation, metadata creation, and ensuring long-term preservation.
The integration of discipline-specific archiving practices into tertiary education aligns with PARADISEC's mission to empower students and researchers in responsibly managing cultural and linguistic resources. The curriculum has been successfully implemented for credited job placements for institutions like Charles Sturt University (AUS) and the University of Manchester (UK). Its effectiveness has led to its adoption for training staff and volunteers, and there is growing interest from university course convenors to add this content to their courses beyond the occasional guest lecture.
➺ A manual for the restoration of the sound of amateur films
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Jean-Baptiste Masson (Short presentation)
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This paper presents an on-going project conducted at the Université of Rennes-2 and at the Cinémathèque de Bretagne, that aims to produce a manual for the restoration of the sound of amateur films. Amateur films are usually seen as silent, while a vivid practice of sound recording existed in parallel. Since the 1930s, amateur cinema magazines have documented the recording of soundtracks, first on instantaneous discs, then on magnetic tapes. For amateurs, the norm was to record image and sound on two separate media and to synchronise the two afterwards.
In France, the collection and safeguarding of amateur films and sound recordings are mainly undertaken by local archives (such as the Cinémathèque de Bretagne), who have acquired an expertise in the digitalisation and management of sub-standards. However, until recently, sound has remained the poor relation and sonic materials have rarely been taken into consideration. A number of amateur films then appeared as silent while soundtracks exist(ed). Thus, this project aims to give a voice to films that were until now deprived of one and seeks to highlight the sonic collections that are often present in local archives (around 3000 recordings are kept by the Cinémathèque de Bretagne). These amateur collections represent voices that are usually not present in history books and national archives.
This project also intents to give practical advices to local archives that often work on a constraint budget and with limited human resources.
➺ Praxis and Partnership: How Archival Training Programs Support the Audiovisual Archiving Field
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Kimberly Tarr (Short presentation)
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Education and training programs can prepare the next generation of archival professionals for practical work in the field while strengthening the foundation of audiovisual archives. Partnering with smaller archives, historical societies, and arts organizations, New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program has anchored student-led collection assessments and internships to support and build the capacity of institutions. An express interest has been placed in supporting repositories that seek to amplify less mainstream and counter-culture narratives, such as Visual AIDS, La MaMa Theatre Archives, and the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Center for Puerto Rican Heritage. MIAP students have made a deep and lasting impact on the condition and accessibility of audiovisual collections locally, nationally, and internationally. Informed by Paulo Freire's pedagogical approach, praxis can be defined as “reflection and action upon the world in order to transform it.” This session argues that praxis is essential in training audiovisual archivists and discusses how the MIAP program’s emphasis on providing a theoretical foundation with practical, real-world experience, has supported both its students and audiovisual archives globally since its founding twenty years ago.
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