Declercq developing a national strategy

Brecht Declercq – IPPSA Workshop – Piazzola sul Brenta – 17.09.2015

Developing a national strategy For the digitisation, sustainable storage and access of audiovisual

heritage

courtesy Chris Lacinak, AVPreserve

courtesy Chris Lacinak, AVPreserve

courtesy Chris Lacinak, AVPreserve

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librariesarchives

museumsuniversities

broadcastersprivately held companiesprivate collections

research centresarts organisationsgovernemental bodies

ANALOG CARRIER REGISTRATION

LOGISTICAL PROCES

DIGITISATIONDELIVERY FILES

IMPORT IN ARCHIVE

REDUNDANT STORAGE

MANAGE – ANNOTATE– ENHANCE

PICK-UP FROM ARCHIVE

ENRICHMENT, CONTEXTUALISATION

DELIVERYTARGET GROUPS

AMS MAM WEBSITES

Economies of scale Special care for quality Internationally rooted technical expertise Distributed content expertise Customer satisfaction

FIVE RETURNING KEYWORDS

TWO EXAMPLES

VRT’S DIGITAL BETACAM COLLECTION

UGENT’S WAX CYLINDER COLLECTION

“ ... mass digitization if possible, customized approach if necessary ...”

VRT’S DIGITAL BETACAM COLLECTION

size ca. 80.000 #, ca. 50.000 h content all kinds of TV-programmes age between 1998 and 2011

PROJECT: DIGITIZATION WAVE 3

PROJECT: DIGITIZATION WAVE 3

PROJECT: DIGITIZATION WAVE 3

UGENT’S WAX CYLINDER COLLECTION

size 96 #, ca. 20 h content etno-linguistic field recordings from

Belgian Congo featuring Bantu language samples age between March and September 1937

PROJECT: DIGITIZATION WAVE 2

PROJECT: DIGITIZATION WAVE 2

PROJECT: DIGITIZATION WAVE 2

CONCLUSION: VIAA’S CORE VALUES

A networked service organization Preservation, storage and access are active

processes Encourage use to increase digital competencies Measurable operational excellence, transparency

and sustainability Demand driven and innovative at the same time

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS ON AUTHENTICITY

Authenticity is an unreachable goal: you should strive for it, but you’ll never get there

Authenticity is only one aspect of historical source criticism; completeness is equally important

Historical documents are remainder, historians transform them into sources by asking questions, history is constantly rewritten

We shouldn’t deliberately alter the remainder, but if it is inevitable, documentation is crucial

THANKS!

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