This session consists of 5 presentations and a joint Q&A with the presenters. The session contains:
➺ Pol Cruells, Francesc Xavier Sánchez - Radio Barcelona, 100 years of radio history : past, present and future partnerships (Long presentation)
➺ Ferenc János Szabó - Audiovisual collections in Hungary – Where do we stand now? (Long presentation)
➺ Sony Prosper - Archival Repatriation and Return: Current Trends and Directions (Short presentation)
➺ Nthabiseng Ncala - The Effects Of Preservation Management On Risks In The Archival Institutions Of Esarbica (Short presentation)
➺ Javier Suarez Pajares - The project "Music in the grooves" and non-commercial records (Long presentation)
**Abstracts:**
➺ Radio Barcelona, 100 years of radio history : past, present and future partnerships
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Pol Cruells, Francesc Xavier Sánchez (Long presentation)
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On November 14, 1924, Radio Barcelona was officially inaugurated. In June of that same year, the government approved the regulations that were to govern radio broadcasting and the ANR obtained the first official licence: EAJ-1.
On the occasion of its 70th anniversary, in 1994 Radio Barcelona ceded to the Generalitat de Catalunya the management for public access the Archimag, a collection of 10.000 magnetic tapes, and its historical record library, consisting of some 10,000 78 rpm records and 100.000 vinyls. The Department of Culture of the Catalan government placed the archive in the Biblioteca de Catalunya, where it has been publicly accessible ever since, also preserving the sound in the library’s digital preservation system, CoFRE
The commemorative events of Radio Barcelona’s centennary began coinciding with World Radio Day, on February 13, with the inauguration of a website in Catalan and Spanish, where these 100 years of history are reviewed and where historical moments and radio milestones are compiled.
Radio Barcelona and the Escola Superior d'Arxivers i Gestors de Documents (ESAGED) of the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, will undertake the digitization and cataloguing of a large part of the photographic and documentary collection kept in the radio station's archive. In addition, and also in collaboration with the UAB, an International Radio Congress will be held on October 15 and 16, where the current situation of the medium will be analysed and its future will be discussed.
➺ Audiovisual collections in Hungary – Where do we stand now?
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Ferenc János Szabó (Long presentation)
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Although there have been several surveys of Hungarian sound archives in the twentieth century, the last one was carried out in 1991, on the occasion of the IASA congress in Sopron (see the relevant publications in IASA Phonographic Bulletin). Since the early 1990s, audiovisual culture has changed dramatically. It is not only the collections that are changing, but also the problems that institutions face. In my presentation I intend to give a current overview of the Hungarian collections focusing on audio documents.
One part of the overall picture is rather pessimistic. Several attempts have been made to create a national sound archive in Hungary in the 20th and 21st centuries, but they all failed. Some of the most important audiovisual collections in Hungary are privately owned and accessible neither for the public and nor for research. Audiovisual collections in public, university, research and other libraries face different problems (decreasing number of users, financial difficulties, legal problems, frequently changing types of media, etc.).
On the other hand, the sound collection of the National Széchényi Library has grown enormously in recent decades. Thanks to a few purchases and generous donations from private record collectors, the library has been enriched with a huge collection of archival audio documents. This partly replaces (as far as possible) the losses of the national library caused by the historical events of the twentieth century in Hungary. Furthermore, the preservation of non-commercial audiovisual documents related to local history in provincial libraries has increased in importance in recent decades.
➺ Archival Repatriation and Return: Current Trends and Directions
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Sony Prosper (Short presentation)
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This presentation keeps track of ongoing dissertation work around the repatriation and return of archival material. Drawing from the literature on repatriation from archival studies, museum studies, museum anthropology, performance studies, sound studies, and ethnomusicology, I argue that a full understanding of archival repatriation is incomplete without examining the role diasporic communities play as actors in such efforts. While the sources in the areas I draw from have largely kept track of activities at the national and international planes, more of the literature needs to do the same for diasporic communities who might also have a stake in repatriation and return. In this presentation, I explore the several approaches to archival repatriation emerging from the literature and end by presenting preliminary data from an ongoing research study examining how the Radio Haiti Archive at Duke University should be repatriated and returned to Haiti and the role the Haitian diaspora plays.
The dissertation research study examines how various groups view the repatriation of the Radio Haiti Archives by asking: how should the archive at Duke University be returned and repatriated to Haiti? What role does the Haitian diaspora play? What are the barriers and obstacles to repatriating and returning the archive? In order to answer these questions, I use an ethnographic approach that brings together an analysis of documents and archival records, unstructured interviews, semi-structured interviews, and informal observations. This research will particularly focus on the role diasporic communities play in repatriation efforts, suggesting that a full understanding of archival repatriation is incomplete without examining the role diasporic communities play in such efforts.
➺ The Effects Of Preservation Management On Risks In The Archival Institutions Of Esarbica
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Nthabiseng Ncala (Short presentation)
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Preservation management is the one of the ways to maintain existing and future audio-visual records in which archival institutions have invested resources. However the archival institutions of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of The International Council on Archives (ESARBICA) are fraught with various risks that threaten all audio-visual records collections. Without effective preservation management capable of controlling, minimising, treating, and predicting risks, AVR heritage of the region will be lost forever. The aim of the study was to address the problem at hand by designing a conceptual framework based on the relationship between preservation management factors and risks. This study applied a cross-sectional survey quantitative research approach where data collected was analysed using various descriptive and inferential statistical tools. The study found that there is a negative correlation between risks and preservation management that played a key role to predict risk variables, and to assess how changes in preservation management influenced risks. Theoretically, the study expanded the current knowledge on the effectiveness of preservation strategies and some were facilitated by the application of artificial intelligence. Practical contributions showcases the relationship between preservation management and risks, an empirical model that fit well elements that need to be considered when assessing preservation management of audio-visual records was developed to enable stakeholders to assess the effectiveness of preservation management to contribute to the understanding under which circumstances of preservation management influence and control risks. Archival institutions will be able to put policies in place to improve their overall performance in safeguarding audio-visual heritage for access to, and future use.
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