The document summarizes a workshop on personal audiovisual archives. It discusses collecting amateur content to build formal archives, how professional archives can acquire personal archives, maintaining a personal collection, and working with personal archives. The workshop also included presentations on collecting amateur content, acquiring personal archives, maintaining personal collections, dealing with technical issues in archiving, and a clinic to discuss problems with archiving personal collections.

1. Personal Audiovisual Archives
FIAT-IFTA Vienna
8 October 2015

2. Presentations
1. Introduction – Richard Wright
2. Collecting Amateur Content (to make an archive) --
Cecilia Pagliarani of the Nosarchive project
3. Acquisition of Personal Archives (by professional archives) –
Daniel Teruggi, INA and Presto4U project
4. Maintaining a Personal Collection – Richard Wright
5. Working with Personal Archives – Hermann Lewetz, Austrian
Mediathek
6. (if we have time) Clinic – Here is my problem …
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3. What are Personal Archives?
The formal archive of an individual
The accumulated documents of an individual
-- organise, scan and reformat to create a digital archive
The accumulated media (and social media!) of an individual
- which may need digitisation for preservation
- and may need reformatting
- and needs metadata
- and needs a plan for digital preservation
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4. Cecilia Pagliarani – Nosarchive project
If dealing with individual collections is difficult, what about dealing
with many individuals?
How to build formal collections from a range on amateur and
informal sources (of audiovisual materials)
Nosarchive: “manages and organizes a collection of materials
of various ownership …”
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5. Daniel Teruggi – INA, Presto4U
Many ‘paper’ archives have long experience of dealing with
individual collections
Major audiovisual archives deal with broadcasters (or recording
industry or cinema industry) – not with individuals
So – how should audiovisual archives proceed?
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6. Richard Wright – Preservation Guide
Most people have analogue and digital photographs
Many people have analogue and digital video recording
Many people have analogue and digital sound recordings
Most people have analogue and digital commercial music
Most people have ‘social media’
Most people have computers, external storage and cloud storage
Most people have a jumble, not an archive
So – what should most people do?
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7. Hermann Lewetz – Austrian Mediathek
When individual and small collections come into a formal archive,
there are two sorts of problems:
1. Organising the materials so they can be formally archived
Sorting, identifying, selecting, describing …
2. For audiovisual content: dealing with technical issues
Analogue: playback of carriers, digitisation, encoding and wrapping, metadata
Digital: obsolecence of: storage technology, file systems, file formats, encoding
Even if not obsolete, there are still problems of moving digital content into the
encoding and wrapping used by the archive as its standard format
And always problems of locating, reading, interpreting and preserving metadata
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8. Clinic
Doctor, Doctor – I have a problem !!
Brief descriptions of problems of archiving / preserving
personal collections
Hopefully, ‘people in the room’ will have brief solutions
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9. Thank you very much
Presto4U: https://www.prestocentre.org/4u/
Nosarchives: http://nosarchives.com/
Austrian Mediathek: http://www.mediathek.at/
Richard Wright: preservation.guide@gmail.com
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