Submitted by Richard Ranft on Wed, 10/02/2016 - 23:43
The 47th Annual Conference of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) will be hosted at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., USA, between 24-29 September 2016.
The conference theme is: A World of Opportunity: Audiovisual Archives and the Digital Landscape.
This promises to be the best IASA conference ever!
A call for papers and further details will be issued in the next few days and published on the conference website. Meanwhile, make a note of the dates in your diaries.
Submitted by bertramlyons on Fri, 05/02/2016 - 16:02
Currently, the IASA Journal is looking for volunteer reviewers to participate in the day-to-day editorial activities of the journal. The IASA Journal is released twice each year (April and October) and leading up to release, reviewers will be asked to serve as peer reviewers for submissions that are in line with the reviewer’s expertise and experience.
Submitted by Richard Ranft on Fri, 08/01/2016 - 14:46
Dear colleagues, The Audiovisual and Multimedia Section, Information Technology and Cataloguing Sections invite to submit abstracts for IFLA WLIC 2016 (Columbus, Ohio, USA, 13-19 August 2016). The Session will focus on the theme: Improvement of the discoverability of AV and Multimedia by transforming raw data into linked open data. More information: http://2016.ifla.org/cfp-calls/audiovisual-and-multimedia-section-inform...
Submitted by Richard Ranft on Wed, 06/01/2016 - 19:38
The Library of Congress has just posted on the BIBFRAME website a new report: “BIBFRAME AV Assessment: Technical, Structural, and Preservation Metadata” http://www.loc.gov/bibframe/docs/pdf/bf-avtechstudy-01-04-2016.pdf. It was prepared by Kara Van Malssen and Bertram Lyons of AVPreserve under contract to the Library of Congress. The report studies the state of technical, structural, and preservation metadata for audiovisual resources in the bibliographic environment.
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