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Audiovisual Culture

10.1 The Audiovisual Culture:

European funding and projects

• EC European Commission (the people who run the European Economic Community)
• IST Cultural Heritage: Information Society and Technology is a major strand of EC research activity, and the Cultural Heritage programme funds major R&D projects (including Presto and PrestoSpace)

Professional Bodies

• AMIA – Assoc of Moving Image Archivists http://www.amianet.org/
• ARSC – Assoc of Recorded Sound Collections http://www.arsc-audio.org/
• CCAAA – Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations http://www.ccaaa.org/
• FIAF -- International Federation of Film Archives http://www.fiafnet.org/
• FIAT – International Federation of Television Archives http://www.fiatifta.org/
• IAML – International Association of Music Libraries http://www.iaml.info
• IASA – International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives http://www.iasa-web.org/
• IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions http://www.ifla.org
  Publishes: Guidelines for Audiovisual and Multimedia Materials in Libraries and other Institutions in many languages
• SEAPAVAA - Southeast Asia-Pacific Audiovisual Archive Association http://www.seapavaa.org/

List of more: http://www.iasa-web.org/iasa0019.htm

NGOs

• UNESCO – has an archives area, and the UN has special interests in preservation and heritage
  • archives portal:
  • preservation and conservation:
  • audiovisual archives:

• ECPA – European Commission for Preservation and Access; Yola de Lucenet; http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa
• EBU – European Broadcasting Union; membership of virtually ALL European (in very wide sense; includes middle east and north Africa) broadcasters;

EC Projects:

• PrestoPRIME: http://wiki.prestospace.org/pmwiki.php?n=Main.PrestoPRIME (preliminary)
• PrestoSpace: http://www.prestospace.org/
• TAPE: http://www.tape-online.net/
• First: http://www.film-first.org/first/
• Minerva: http://www.minervaeurope.org/
• Delos: http://www.delos.info/
• Erpanet: http://www.erpanet.org/
• Digicult: http://www.digicult.info/
• Presto: http://presto.joanneum.ac.at/index.asp

UK Projects: JISC/NSF Spoken Word http://www.spokenword.ac.uk/ http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_spoken_word
Uses BBC sound archive, in an educational digital repository.

JISC digitisation projects: JISC is funding two digitisation and electronic access project for broadcast media, one with the British Library Sound Archive, one with UK commercial news (ITN)

[More national audiovisual digitisation and preservation projects go here]

Other Online Help: Beyond PrestoSpace, other online sources of information about digitisation and preservation are:

• US Library of Congress
  • Digital Audio-Visual Preservation Prototyping Projects http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/avprot/avprhome.html
  • Sustainability of Digital Formats http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/index.shtml
• AMIA VideoTape Fact Sheets http://www.amianet.org/resources/guides/fact_sheets.pdf
• TAPE Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe http://www.tape-online.net/
• Moving Image Collections (MIC) Preservation Portal http://mic.imtc.gatech.edu/preservationists_portal/presv_index.htm
• Conservation OnLine: video preservation: http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/video/
• Conservation OnLine: audio preservation: http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/audio/
• Conservation OnLine: film preservation: http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/motion-pictures/
• National Film and Sound Archive (Australia): http://www.screensound.gov.au/Screensound/Screenso.nsf/HeadingPagesDisplay/Preservation?OpenDocument
• IMAP online preservation resource guide: http://www.eai.org/resourceguide/preservation.html
• Texas Commission on the Arts: Video Conservation Guide: http://www.arts.state.tx.us/video/
• Video Preservation Website (joint project of Conservation Online, Bay Area Video Coalition and National Center for Preservation Technology and Training) http://videopreservation.stanford.edu/

HISTORY

• '''Buckey's film history, preservation, conservation and resources page" http://www.members.tripod.com/~cinefan/home.html

ACRONYMS

• ARSC Association of Recorded Sound Collections
• BBC I&A BBC Information & Archives
• BFI British Film Institute
• BNF Biblitheque Nationale Français
• Delos EC Digital Libraries project
• Digicult EC Digital Cultural Heritage project; Seamus Ross
• Erpanet Electronic Resource Preservaton – Seamus Ross
• EBU European Broadcasting Union
• EC European Commission
• ECPA European Commission for Preservation and Access
• FIAT International Federation of Television Archives
• FIRST EC project on digital film
• IAML International Association of Music Libraries
• IASA International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
• IFLA International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
• INA Institute National de l’Audiovisuel, the French national AV archive
• IST Information Society and Technolgy, a sector of the R&D funding of the EC
• JISC Joint Information Systems Committee – the body which does technical infrastructure for the UK universities
• Minerva EC project to coordinate national digitisation work
• NRG National Representatives Group, the collective body covering all European digitisation work at the national level; coordinates with Minerva
• NSF National Science Foundation – US research funding body; funds digital library projects
• Presto EC project to develop preservation technology
• PrestoSpace EC project to make preservation technology available to all AV collections
• RAI Italian national broadcaster
• UNESCO Heritage / archive part of the UN