British and Irish Sound Archives are pleased to announce that its annual event will take place on Friday, 18 November and Saturday, 19 November 2016 at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum at Cultra, Northern Ireland.  Further details, including a call for papers will follow shortly.

Jonathan Draper

On behalf of the BISA committee

Learn how to arrange and describe archival sound, video, and film materials found in mixed-media archival collections. In the morning you'll focus on understanding how to work with archival audiovisual media, including sections on format identification, evaluating content, and assessing institutional capacity for providing access for researchers.

Videos in digital libraries: What’s in it for libraries, publishers and scientists?

Half day workshop: 1:30 PM – 6:00 PM, Thursday, September 8th, 2016

Outline

This workshop will be led by Dietrich Schüller. It focuses on a number of key aspects of the preservation of audiovisual documents in the long-term.