The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Open Source Committee is happy to announce CURATEcamp: AVPres, an online, video conference-based CURATEcamp, focused specifically on the digital preservation and access needs of audiovisual collections. The camp will take place on April 19, 2013 from 12pm EST through the day (end time is still TBD). The sessions will be mostly held online via Google Hangout, with physical sites helping to gather archivist colleagues together locally.
Submitted by Richard Ranft on Wed, 27/02/2013 - 12:24
Audiovisual Citation: Guidelines for referencing sound and moving image resources
Despite the exponential increase in the use of audiovisual material in teaching, learning and research in higher and further education, existing guidelines for the referencing of sound and moving image are insufficient as they are based on standards developed for the written word. This has the effect of discouraging the citing of sound and moving image, as well as creating barriers in its discovery, use and re-use.
Submitted by Richard Ranft on Sun, 10/02/2013 - 12:44
Submitted by Richard Ranft on Mon, 07/01/2013 - 19:12
A fascinating account of Indiana University researcher Patrick Feaster's "paleospectrophony", his term for creating sounds from written records containing audio transcriptions, as far back as Athanasius Kircher's well known Musurgia Universalis (published 1650) and even earlier, is in his book and CD published last year Pictures Of Sound: One Thousand Years Of Educed Audio: 980-1980
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