The Lars Gaustad Award 2024 Recipient: Joshua Ng

The IASA Executive Board is pleased to announce that Joshua Ng is the 2024 recipient of the Lars Gaustad Award. 

The Lars Gaustad Award celebrates his 22 years as chair of the IASA Technical Committee (TC). During this time, many of IASA’s most influential publications were crafted, significantly shaping the practice of audiovisual preservation worldwide. The award is for five years of membership of IASA, including TC membership. One award is given annually.

Joshua Ng is the Digital Preservation Analyst at Archives New Zealand, specialising in digital audiovisual preservation. His primary responsibility is to maintain the integrity of the Government Digital Archive by ensuring all necessary processes are in place.
Since 2020, he has been heavily involved with Utaina, a multi-agency, large-scale, at-risk audiovisual magnetic media digital preservation project. He was responsible for the research and digitisation design specifications, including file format identification, collection metadata extraction, workflow design, and implementation.
Joshua is also a core team member of the working committee for IASA TC-07: Guidelines for the Preservation of Born Digital Video and a SEAPAVAA Executive Council member. In 2022, he worked with AMIA to programme their Continuing Education Open Source AV Tools Online Series. Joshua has co-facilitated "Bash for Archivists" courses for international audiences.

Funding for this award is generously provided by George Blood Audio/Video/Film/Data.

Please join us in congratulating Joshua Ng and Lars Gaustad!