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4/6/17 1 Educa&on & Training for the A/V Archive of the Future Howard Besser h1p://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/howard/Talks SEAPAVAA2017A/V Educ 1 Educa&on & Training for the A/V Archive of the Future Why can’t we conHnue to teach the same way and the same content? In what ways do we need to do things differently? Examples from NYU’s MIAP Program SEAPAVAA2017A/V Educ 2 Educa&on & Training for the A/V Archive of the Future Our working environment is changing Our training needs to change to match it Increased pressure for online access Agility in adapHng to a constantly changing environment The need for basic knowledge about many different areas (analog and digital technical skills, metadata, copyright, workflows, …) Project Mgmt Need to collect a much more diverse set of works than those reflecHng the views of rich and famous white men SEAPAVAA2017-A/V Educ 3 Our working environment is changing Our Content is shi_ing from Analog to Digital Newly produced “films” will all be digital RestoraHon increasingly digital Eventually, we won’t even be able to do photochemical processes for restoraHon and preservaHon Throughout the world people are increasingly recognizing that our history and culture should no longer be so heavily weighted towards welltodo, famous, Eurocentric men Funders, governments, & public all want increased online access The techniques for what we do are rapidly changing, forcing us to train for new skills, as well as change our processes and workflows An increase in producHons made outside the studio system more “at risk” than those from major producHon sources vast number of items (eg. YouTube) means we need to find smart ways to catalog or assign metadata Film & TV Archives will no longer be the only insHtuHon that collects this type of material (YouTube, Vimeo, Neilix, television archives, libraries, museums, arts organizaHons, community organizaHons, “paper” archives, …) SEAPAVAA2017-A/V Educ 4 Our training needs to change to match this Technical skills For managing borndigital and digiHzed works (DCDM, DCP, file formats, compression schemes, migraHons, bitflipping, digital repositories, …) For developing new workflows For providing online access (web skills, social media promoHons, …) Diversity skills (in content and in involving communiHes in metadata development, descripHve pracHces, and delivery/access decisions) Agility in adapHng to a constantly changing environment CreaHvity in finding new ways to involve users (parHcularly in helping us deal with increased scale of cataloging) Project Mgmt skills SEAPAVAA2017-A/V Educ 5 The need for basic technical and administrative/policy knowledge about many different areas (and understanding how they intersect) analog and digital technical skills metadata copyright workflows SEAPAVAA2017-A/V Educ 6

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Educa&on  &  Training  for  the  A/V  Archive  of  the  Future    

Howard  Besser  h1p://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/howard/Talks  

SEAPAVAA2017-­‐A/V  Educ   1  

Educa&on  &  Training  for  the  A/V  Archive  of  the  Future-­‐  

•  Why  can’t  we  conHnue  to  teach  the  same  way  and  the  same  content?  

•  In  what  ways  do  we  need  to  do  things  differently?  

•  Examples  from  NYU’s  MIAP  Program  

SEAPAVAA2017-­‐A/V  Educ   2  

Educa&on  &  Training  for  the  A/V  Archive  of  the  Future  

•  Our  working  environment  is  changing  •  Our  training  needs  to  change  to  match  it  –  Increased  pressure  for  online  access  –  Agility  in  adapHng  to  a  constantly  changing  environment  

–  The  need  for  basic  knowledge  about  many  different  areas  (analog  and  digital  technical  skills,  metadata,  copyright,  workflows,  …)  

–  Project  Mgmt  –  Need  to  collect  a  much  more  diverse  set  of  works  than  those  reflecHng  the  views  of  rich  and  famous  white  men  

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Our working environment is changing •  Our  Content  is  shi_ing  from  Analog  to  Digital  

–  Newly  produced  “films”  will  all  be  digital  –  RestoraHon  increasingly  digital  –  Eventually,  we  won’t  even  be  able  to  do  photochemical  processes  for  restoraHon  and  

preservaHon  •  Throughout  the  world  people  are  increasingly  recognizing  that  our  history  and  

culture  should  no  longer  be  so  heavily  weighted  towards  well-­‐to-­‐do,  famous,  Eurocentric  men  

•  Funders,  governments,  &  public  all  want  increased  online  access  •  The  techniques  for  what  we  do  are  rapidly  changing,  forcing  us  to  train  for  new  

skills,  as  well  as  change  our  processes  and  workflows  •  An  increase  in  producHons  made  outside  the  studio  system  

–  more  “at  risk”  than  those  from  major  producHon  sources  –  vast  number  of  items  (eg.  YouTube)  means  we  need  to  find  smart  ways  to  catalog  or  assign  

metadata  •  Film  &  TV  Archives  will  no  longer  be  the  only  insHtuHon  that  collects  this  type  of  

material  (YouTube,  Vimeo,  Neilix,  television  archives,  libraries,  museums,  arts  organizaHons,  community  organizaHons,  “paper”  archives,  …)  

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Our training needs to change to match this

•  Technical  skills  –  For  managing  born-­‐digital  and  digiHzed  works  (DCDM,  DCP,  file  

formats,  compression  schemes,  migraHons,  bit-­‐flipping,  digital  repositories,  …)  

–  For  developing  new  workflows  –  For  providing  online  access  (web  skills,  social  media  promoHons,  …)  

•  Diversity  skills  (in  content  and  in  involving  communiHes  in  metadata  development,  descripHve  pracHces,  and  delivery/access  decisions)  

•  Agility  in  adapHng  to  a  constantly  changing  environment  •  CreaHvity  in  finding  new  ways  to  involve  users  (parHcularly  in  

helping  us  deal  with  increased  scale  of  cataloging)  •  Project  Mgmt  skills  

SEAPAVAA2017-A/V Educ 5  

The need for basic technical and administrative/policy knowledge about

many different areas ���(and understanding how they intersect)

•  analog and digital technical skills •  metadata •  copyright •  workflows •  …

SEAPAVAA2017-A/V Educ 6  

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21st  century  pracHces,  approaches,  and  media  types    

•  Cross-­‐experHse  collaboraHve  work  •  InteracHve  media  •  Engagement  with  disenfranchised  communiHes  

•  Cellphone  digital  videos,  Police  body-­‐cam  videos,  Periscope,  YouTube,  Facebook  (the  “amateur  films”  of  today)-­‐  

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21st  century  pracHces,  approaches,  and  media  types    

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21st  century  pracHces,  approaches,  and  media  types    

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21st  century  important  “so_”  skills-­‐  

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CollaboraHon  

•  Students  engage  in  about  one  dozen  assignments  involving  collaboraHon  with  collecHons  or  individuals  

•  Here’s  just  a  subset  of  collaboraHons  on  their  CollecHon  Mgmt  assignment-­‐  

SEAPAVAA2017-­‐A/V  Educ   11  Besser-MIAP Program, 8/30/12 1

Collection Assessments ���--Personal Collections of Media Artists, Small Distributors

•  Coleen Fitzgibbon Films- Spr09 •  Elaine Summer Collection-

Spr09 •  Cory Arcangel + BEIGE- Spr09 •  Laurie Anderson –Spr08 •  Sonic Youth Video- Spr08 •  The Barbara Kopple My

Generation Collection- Spr09 •  Bob Stein/Voyager Inc.

Collection Assessment- Spr10

•  Art21 Archive- Spr07 Third World Newsreel- Spr05

•  Willoughby Sharp Archive Collection Assessment - Spr10

•  Fred Barney Taylor Collection- Spr10

•  On Television Collection- Spr10

•  John F Kennedy (Gartenberg Media)- Spr08

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Collection Assessments ���--Collections Housed in Arts Organizations

•  Dance Theatre of Harlem Collection Assessment- Spr10

•  The Kitchen- Spr08 •  Robert Haller Collection

(Anthology Film Archives)- Spr07

•  New Museum of Contemporary Art- Spr07

•  Filmmakers Coop- Spr07

•  Flaherty Film Seminar- Spr07

•  Eyebeam- SarSpr07 •  Frank Kuenstler Films

(Anthology Film Archives)- Spr07

•  Cabinet Magazine Digital Content Archive- Spr08

•  Hemispheric Institute- Spr08

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Collection Assessments ���--Collections Housed in Libraries, Archives

•  Maryland Historical Society- Spr09

•  Mogull Brothers (Library of Congress) Collection - Spr09

•  California State University, Fresno- Henry Madden Library Special Collections- Spr09

•  16mm Films at Brooklyn Public Library- Spr07

•  John Watts Papers (Fales Library)- Spr07

•  Richard Foreman Papers (Fales Library)- Spr07

•  World Music Institute Audio/Video Archive- Spr06

•  Teo Masero Collection (New York Public Library-Rodgers/Hammerstein)- Spr06

•  Red Hot and Rhapsody Music Collection (Fales Library)

•  American Museum of Natural History Video Collection- Spr08

•  Hadassah Collection –Spr07

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Working  in  Groups/Teaching  in  Groups  

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Working  in  Groups/Teaching  in  Groups  

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Working  in  Groups/Teaching  in  Groups  

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Working  in  Groups/Teaching  in  Groups  

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Project  Management-­‐  

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Preservation Plan for a small Video Archive���(L.A.V.A. by Paula Felix-Didier, 2004)

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L.A.V.A.--Phase 1 l  Risk assessment and prioritization scheme. l  Improve environmental conditions: l  Cataloging: consider IMAP template. l  Start a new access number system. l  Remove cardboard slipcovers. l  Move the Masters tapes from besides the air conditioner and the

window. l  Separate working space from the collection shelves l  Try not to eat or drink near the tapes. l  Sample tape inspection and rewinding schedule. l  Dub Betacam masters. l  Stock on VCRs and VHS tapes. l  New items: keep track of provenance. /. have a tape and

documentation inspection routine l  Make sure all tapes can be played back

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L.A.V.A.--Phase 2

l  Long-range preservation plan. l  Natural disaster plan. l  Insurance. l  Climate controlled storage. l  Regular tape inspection schedule. l  Plan on start collecting DVDs and migrating the most valuable

VHS to DVD or other digital format. l  Digitizing plan for their Betacam Masters. l  Start collecting digital masters. l  Paper-based documentation preservation plan.

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Natalia Fidelholtz 2005? The Jerry Jofen Collection

At Anthology Film Archives 23  

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Natalia Fidelholtz The Jerry Jofen Collection

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Jerry Jofen Collection:

Priorities •  Cataloging, General: A full inventory of all film and audio elements should be

created. •  Intellectual Property Rights: Anthology should draft letter of agreement, and

have it signed by Ellen Jofen. •  Micro environment, Film: All elements should be housed in archival

containers as soon as possible. •  Micro environment, Audio: Audio elements should be stored separately in

acid-free individual archival boxes. •  Film element preparation: Leader, labeling, wind and inspection. •  Further Film element recommendations:

–  Cleaning –  Compiling –  Processing –  Creating Internegatives/Negatives

•  Audio element preparation: Identify and remaster any unstable or deteriorating elements to new stock ¼” reel-to-reel, and/or BWF digital file stored on server or hard-drive.

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Jerry Jofen Collection:

Workplan •  PHASE 1

The steps to improve the storage, housing and intellectual control of the collection are:

- 1. Inspection/Rehousing & Labeling/Inventorying & Identification - 2. Drafting letter of agreement - 3. Cleaning moldy elements

•  PHASE 2 The steps to be taken towards a long-term preservation plan and an access policy are:

- 4. Re-format high-risk items (particularly mag strip films, and audio elements in danger) - 5. Processing exposed film and slides

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Jerry Jofen Collection:

Workplan TASK WHO WHEN TIME

Order supplies for rehousing, inventorying and reshelving

Archivist Month 1 3-4 weeks

Clean storage space Intern Month 1 2 weeks Monitor temperature and relative humidity Archivist Month 1-6 On-going task Train intern/volunteer Archivist Month 1 2 weeks Inventorying Archivist/Intern Month 2-3 6 weeks Film/Tape inspection and cleaning Archivist/Intern Month 2-3 6 weeks Re-Housing, Labeling, Shelving Archivist/Intern Month 2-3 6 weeks Send out moldy elements to be cleaned Archivist Month 3 4 weeks Research Jerry Jofen�s productions Intern Month 2-6 On-going task Identify items in need of laboratory work Archivist/Intern Month 4 2 weeks Send out to laboratory Archivist Month 4-6 10 weeks Quality Control Archivist Month 4-6 8 weeks

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Jerry Jofen Collection:

Budget

NEH Funds Cost Sharing Total

Salaries and Wages

Archivist X30% x12mo. @ $30,000 $9,000 $9,000

Intern X30% x12mo. @ $10/hr $6,240 $6,240

Fringe Benefits 34% of $30,000 $10,000 $10,000 34% of $6,240 $2,121.60 $2,121.60

Item Quantity Unit price/ pack Total

Ser vices

COLORLAB Labwork for f ilm (B/W Negat ive) TBD $.15/ft TBD

COLORLAB Labwork for f ilm (Co lor Negat ive) TBD $.13/ft TBD

COLORLAB

Release pr ints from interme diates (Co lor & B/W pos it ives) TBD $.32/ft TBD

BAVAC Labwork for aud io TBD

1/4" aud io to wave file (96k / 24b) : $165 per hour of recorded tape (In cludes a M itsu i Go ld CD copy). TBD

Supplies and Materials

Item Quantity Unit price/ pack Total

Raw 16mm negative stock TBD $150/400ft. TBD Gloves 4 $2.50/pa ir $10.00 Arch iva l Marker 10 $2.75 per unit $27.50

Acid- free labels 1 $47.60 / 42 0 labe ls $47.60

The total budget cannot be estimated, as it can only be determined once the number of items requiring re-housing and in need of preservation laboratory work is determined

Speaking  in  Public  

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Speaking  in  Public  

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Speaking  in  Public  

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Speaking  in  Public  

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Engagement  with  Professional  AssociaHons  

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Engagement  with  Professional  AssociaHons  

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Engagement  with  Professional  AssociaHons  

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Engagement  with  Professional  AssociaHons  

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Engagement  with  Professional  AssociaHons  

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Engagement  with  Professional  AssociaHons  

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Engagement  with  Professional  AssociaHons  

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Engagement  with  Professional  AssociaHons  

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Networking  with  other  professionals  (both  quesHon-­‐answering  and  collaboraHon  on  new  projects)  

AMIA  Wkshp  @  ALA  

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Networking  with  other  professionals  (both  quesHon-­‐answering  and  collaboraHon  on  new  projects)  

APEX  Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano  

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Planning  and  carrying  out  public  events,  parHcularly  those  that  promote  A/V  archiving/preservaHon  (WAVHD)

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Planning  and  carrying  out  public  events,  parHcularly  those  that  promote  A/V  archiving/preservaHon  (WAVHD)

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Planning  and  carrying  out  public  events,  parHcularly  those  that  promote  A/V  archiving/preservaHon  (HMD)

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Planning  and  carrying  out  public  events,  parHcularly  those  that  promote  A/V  archiving/preservaHon  (HMD)

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Planning  and  carrying  out  public  events,  parHcularly  those  that  promote  A/V  archiving/preservaHon  (HMD)

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Planning  and  carrying  out  public  events,  parHcularly  those  that  promote  A/V  archiving/preservaHon  (HMD)

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Engagement  with  larger  public,  parHcularly  at  Hmes  when  they  really  need  it  (N.O.  2005)

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Engagement  with  larger  public,  parHcularly  at  Hmes  when  they  really  need  it  (Sandy 2012)

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Engagement  with  larger  public,  parHcularly  at  Hmes  when  they  really  need  it  (ALA/Occupy)

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Engagement  with  larger  public,  parHcularly  at  Hmes  when  they  really  need  it  (Occupy)

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Engagement  with  larger  public,  parHcularly  at  Hmes  when  they  really  need  it  (Occupy)

SEAPAVAA2017-A/V Educ 53  

Engagement  with  larger  public,  parHcularly  at  Hmes  when  they  really  need  it  (Occupy)

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Engagement  with  larger  public,  parHcularly  at  Hmes  when  they  really  need  it  (XFR STN)

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Important  21st  century  “so_”  skills  (recap)  

•  CollaboraHon  •  Working  in  Groups/Teaching  in  Groups  •  Project  Management  •  Speaking  in  Public  •  Engagement  with  Professional  AssociaHons  •  Networking  with  other  professionals  (both  quesHon-­‐answering  and  collaboraHon  on  new  projects)  

•  Planning  and  carrying  out  public  events,  parHcularly  those  that  promote  A/V  archiving/preservaHon  

•  Engagement  with  larger  public,  parHcularly  at  Hmes  when  they  really  need  it  

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Digital  CollecHon  Technical  Skills  

•  Obvious  Digital  Library  knowledge  (OAIS/SIP/DIP,  Audit  CerHficaHon,  File  Format  ValidaHon,  …).  But  also  learning  applicaHons  and  command-­‐line  skills  for:  – CreaHng  and  validaHng  check-­‐sums  – ExtracHng  metadata  from  file  headers  – Managing  bulk  ingest,  …  

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Digital  PreservaHon  Tools  Training  

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Digital  PreservaHon  Tools  

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Checksum  EducaHon  

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Checksum  EducaHon  

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Batch  Processing  Checksums  

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Extract  Metadata  from  Digital  File  Headers  

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Extract  Metadata  from  Digital  File  Headers  

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Extract  Metadata  from  Digital  File  Headers  

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Checking  if  well-­‐formed  PDFs/XMLs  were  received  

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Exercises/Tools  for  File  IdenHficaHon  

File ID Exercise1. Unzip the DROID folder using unzip droid-6.01.zip -d droid

2. Change to the droid directory

3. Launch DROID using sh droid.sh

4. Add sample files by clicking on the green Add button, then to DROID by going to home/miap/Desktop/samples, click OK

5. Click Start

6. What does it display?

7. What doesn’t it display?

8. Is file ID enough?

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NYU’s MIAP:���A curriculum for studying Moving Image

Archiving & Preservation

l  2-year rigorous Masters Degree Program l  Focus is on

l  Theories—Why do we do something? l  Methods—How do we analyze a situation? l  Practices—How we perform specific functions today? l  Mentoring—a combination of apprenticeship with several professionals,

good role models, and have the mentor work with the student on actual situations involving complex questions (such as Ethics)

l  Learning involves both concepts and hands-on activities, with the aim that the concepts will be applicable to media that hasn’t even been invented yet

l  Hands-on experience in extensive class projects and 3 required internships for each student

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Interdisciplinary; students need to –  learn the context in which each of these cultural artifacts were made –  know the history of changing formats –  need to be scientists and technologists who understand:

•  the process of color changes •  how certain stocks become too brittle to provide a flat focus for copying •  how magnetic particles are laid on videotape and what causes the various types

of deterioration •  how different computer files link and interact, (and how certain compression

algorithms cause various types of loss) so that they can anticipate preservation problems of compressed and hyper-linked digital works

–  strong organizational and classification skills so that they can manage these collections and help others find things they want in them.

–  administrative skills to manage these large preservation repositories (whether they be film, video, digital, or others).

–  understand that preservation does not exist in a vacuum, and that they may have to become activists to prevent outside political forces from inadvertently trampling on our ability to preserve

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Competencies •  Handling film, video, new media, and understanding how these

artifacts are made •  Collections assessment, risk assessment •  Selection & appraisal •  Collection management (labeling, storage, cataloging) •  Repair and transfer •  Navigating through different institutional cultures •  Programming and exhibition •  Budgeting, justifying projects, and grant-writing •  Donor relations and intellectual property •  Research & access •  Scholarship •  Historical Research

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Ethics •  Readings touching on ethics and values in both our domain

(Philosophy of A/V Archiving) and related domains (Museum world--Enola Gay)

•  Examination of daily occurances for ethical and value-based responses (news articles, “wardrobe malfunctions”, Lucas’ “restoration” of THX, sound “restoration”)

•  Extensive discussions on contemporary incidents, and the role that the professional community should play in these –  Screensound Australia –  BFI –  BBC

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Where do our students go to work? ���Conventional Film Archives

•  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Print Trafficker)

•  Anthology Film Archives (Archival Consultant) (Digital Archivist)

•  Cineteca Nacional de Mexico (Archivo Memoria Coordinator)

•  Moving Image Archive, Indiana University Libraries (Film Archivist)

•  Museo del Cine, Buenos Aires, (Director)

•  National Film Archive, Philippines (Director)

•  Northeast Historic Film (Technical Services Director)

•  Pacific Film Archive, UC-Berkeley (Film and Video Collection Assistant) ���

But also other types of institutions…

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Where do our students go to work? Libraries

•  Columbia University Libraries (Digitization and Preservation Project Manager)

•  Harvard University Library (National Digital Stewardship Resident)

•  John Hopkins University (Media Preservation Specialist)

•  Northeastern University Libraries (Digital Production Coordinator)

•  Northwestern University Library (Moving Image and Sound Specialist)

•  New York University Libraries (Head, Media Preservation)

•  New York Public Library (Media Preservation Coordinator)

•  University of Baltimore, Langsdale Library (Audiovisual Archivist)

•  UCLA Library (Digital Archivist) •  University of Kansas Libraries

(Audio Visual Preservation Specialist)

•  University of Virginia Library (Audiovisual Conservator)

•  Washington University Libraries (Film and Media Catalog and Preservation Archivist)

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Where do our students go to work? Museums

•  American Museum of Natural History (Public Programs Associate)

•  Denver Art Museum (Assistant Conservator)

•  Exploratorium (Coordinator, Cinema Arts Program)

•  Guggenheim Museum (Computer Based Art Fellow)

•  Hirshhorn Museum (Time Based Media Archival Specialist)

•  Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Time Based Media Technician)

•  Museum of Modern Art (Collection Specialist)

•  Museum of the Moving Image (Registrar)

•  National Aquarium (Visual Media Archivist)

•  National Museum of African American History and Culture (Media Conservator)

•  Smithsonian American Art Museum (Media Conservator)

•  Smithsonian Institution (Digital Video Specialist)

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Where do our students go to work? ���Non-Profit Broadcast Organizations

•  Democracy Now! (Digital Archivist)

•  Pacifica Radio Archive (AACIP Cataloger)

•  PBS (Project Archivist & Preservationist)

•  WNYC Radio (Archives Manager)

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Where do our students go to work? ���Other Non-Profit & Government Organizations •  American Folklife Center (Digital

Assets Manager) •  Appalshop (Archivist) •  Bay Area Video Coalition

(Preservation Technician) •  Brooklyn Academy of Music

(National Digital Stewardship Resident)

•  Carnegie Hall (Digital Asset Manager)

•  Human Rights Watch (Sr. Manager of Archives & Digital Systems)

•  WITNESS (Senior Archivist)

•  Library of Congress (Digital Projects Coordinator)

•  ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archive (Archivist)

•  Roundabout Theatre Company Archives (Project Archivist)

•  Standby Program (Preservation Coordinator)

•  StoryCorps Oral History (Historias Archive Coordinator)

•  United Nations (Audiovisual Archivist)

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Where do our students go to work? Avant-Garde/Experimental Collections

•  Kramlich Collection (Conservation Associate)

•  The Kitchen (Archivist) •  Canyon Cinema (Archivist) •  Electronic Arts Intermix

(Media Collection Manager) •  Sonic Youth (Archivist) •  Vito Acconci Studio

(Archivist)

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Where do our students go to work? Private Sector

•  AVPreserve (Partner and Senior Consultant)

•  CNN News Archive (Archivist)

•  Collector Systems, LLC (Registrar)

•  Medianet (Account Manager)

•  Premier Retail Networks (Archivist)

•  Riot Games (Archivist) •  Second Run Media

Preservation (Associate Director)

•  Towers Productions, Inc. (Chief Creative Officer)

•  Ugen Media (Business Development)

•  US Tennis Association (Archivist)���

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Where do our students go to work? Personal Archivist

•  Parkwood Entertainment (Archive Director)

•  Gloria Steinem's Office (Archival Assistant)

•  Todo Mundo [David Byrne Archive)] (Audiovisual Archivist)

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Important  Pedagogy-­‐  

•  Most  projects  and  coursework  are  “useful”  – either  help  a  CollecHon  move  forward,  or  contribute  useful  informaHon  to  the  field  

•  Project-­‐based  learning  

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Engagement with Real situations l  Work on real problems facing real collections

l  Copyright, collection assessments, preservation projects, … l  APEX, Community Archiving (like the CAW on Sat with the

CineVision colllctn at IBON working with UP-LIS)

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Project-Based Learning l  Students complete well over a dozen intensive projects l  Almost all projects involve doing real work with real

collections, the results of which will be used by those collections' managers

l  Most projects involve research, planning, and executing phases

l  Vast majority of projects are group projects (group-sourcing instead of crowd-sourcing)

l  All projects involve developing time-lines, division of labor

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Project-Based Learning:���Where does the Learning come from?

l  All projects have a variety of constrains (time, money, or other resources) and students must make trade-offs btwn the ideal and what can be accomplished within the constraints

l  Most projects have plans that are both reviewed by collection managers and critiqued by instructors l  Reviews often happen iteratively throughout the project l  Projects, methods, challenges are formally presented to

fellow students (so students learn from each others' projects)

l  Much of learning in group projects comes from peers (Wisdom of the group--group-sourcing instead of crowd-sourcing)

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Examples of 2 classes/topics

l  Students take an entire course on © and another on Collection Management in their first year, then those skills and concepts are integrated into the curriculum and projects for a variety of subsequent courses

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Copyright Class Syllabus

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Copyright Audit l  Sign  non-­‐disclosure  agreement  l  Go  through  boxes  of  records  related  to  a  parHcular  television  episode  from  the  past,  including  correspondence,  le1ers  of  agreement,  licenses,  union  contracts,  etc.  for  all  parts  of  the  episode  (original  footage,  clips,  sounds,  music,  narrators,  talent,  etc.)  

l  What  might  prevent  re-­‐showing  the  episode  on  TV,  DVD,  internet,  etc.  and  what  are  the  risk  levels  for  each  impediment  

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Collection Management 2011 Assignments

l  Short paper (4-5 pages) (10%). Compare collection and acquisition, appraisal, and retention policies at two archives. How can an organization’s mission impact its policies? date: February 14.

l  Fales collection assessment (20%). Draft due: 3/3/2011. Final due: 3/28/2011.

l  Individual collection assessment (30%). Draft due: 4/4/2011. Final due: 4/27/2011.

l  Funding request (20%). (1) One-page summary “pitch” (due 5/9/2011) (2) Powerpoint presentation in class (last 2 weeks of semester)

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Situated  within  a  series  of  different  exisHng  TradiHons  and  Disciplines  

•  cinema  studies  •  museum  studies  •  archival  studies  •  library  and  informaHon  science  •  engineering,  •  cultural  studies  •  art  history  

•  Even  though  Program  is  housed  within  Cinema  Studies  Dept  

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RhizomaHc  CollecHons  Emphasized  

•  Orphan/neglected  works,  newsreels,  home  movies,  found  footage,  arHsHc  works,  community  works,  …  (everything  but  mainstream  commercial  works)  

•  CollecHng  organizaHons  with  less  resources  (community  organizaHons,  organizaHons  in  poorer  countries,  collecHves,  …)  

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Orphans Film Symposium

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Media  Types  (both  analog  &  digital)  

•  Film  •  Video  •  Personal  digital  collecHons  •  complex  media  (installaHons,  interacHve,  web-­‐based,  games,  …)  

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Personal  Digital  Archiving  2015  h1p://personaldigitalarchiving.com/  

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Involvement  in  the  latest  research  iniHaHves  

•  Disaster  Preparedness  and  Recovery  (2005-­‐)  •  Preserving  complex  works  of  art  for  museum  seqngs  

(2005-­‐2015)  •  Preserving  Born-­‐Digital  Public  Television  (2005-­‐2010)  •  Pushing  metadata  gathering  upstream  into  the  producHon  

process  (2007-­‐)  •  Issues  in  preserving  large  corpora  of  crowd-­‐sourced  

cellphone  videos  from  Social  Movements  (2011-­‐2016)  •  Preserving  and  sharing  raw  scienHfic  video  Data  (2012-­‐)  •  Copyright  Guidelines  for  VHS  Video  At  Risk  (2012)  •  Outsourcing  reformaqng  for  VHS  Video  At  Risk  (2013)  •  Archiving  streaming  media  from  Websites  (2016-­‐2018)  

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© Activities NYU has worked on •  Current study of commercially distributed VHS tapes, their

uniqueness, and preservation reformatting guidelines •  Studies of international laws that inhibit moving image

preservation –  InterPARES study of laws inhibiting digital preservation –  IFLA survey of mandatory registration of moving image material

•  Study of massive underlying rights inhibitions within a single public television program (as much as 350/hr)

•  Lucas Hilderbrand (now UCI), Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape & Copyright

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NYU Mellon Video At Risk Grant:���

Video replacement issues •  Expands on the previous grant findings that

many VHS tapes were rare and difficult to replace

•  examine routine maintenance, preservation, and © issues in circulating video collections-

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Video  At  Risk  2012  

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NYU Mellon Video At Risk Grant:���

Examine routine maintenance, preservation, and © issues in circulating video collections

•  Research “scarcity” of videos originally purchased by libraries in commercial market (examine OCLC records)

•  Research “replaceability” of videos (test several procedures for determining out-of-printness)

•  Develop checklist procedures for determining whether replacement copy can be legally obtained (Orphan Works type procedure), and explore legal justification for digitizing without prior permission

•  Develop a model procedure to follow and identify trade-offs in preservation reformatting of library videos into digital (quality, file format, CODECs, QC, line 21, …)

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Research:���

Preserving Digital Public Television •  Preserve  a  broad  set  of  elements  (including  ancillary  

material)  •  Life-­‐cycle  mgmt  (add  metadata  as  soon  as  a  clip  comes  

in)  •  Establish  a  community  of  stakeholders,  working  together  

for  preservaHon  (staHons,  university,  librarians,  journalists,  historians,  producers,  scholars,  …)  

•  Build  an  OAIS  Server  •  Explore  appropriate  file  formats,  wrappers,  METS  

extensions  •  Develop  sustainable  business  model  

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Infant Action Lab Research Data

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Infant Action Lab Research Data

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Archiving  Composer  Websites  2016-­‐  

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Educa&on  &  Training  for  the  A/V  Archive  of  the  Future  (1/2)  

•  Project-­‐based  learning  •  Exercises  should  be  real-­‐life  and  useful  to  some  external  

collecHon  or  individual  •  CollaboraHon  •  Working  in  Groups/Teaching  in  Groups  •  Project  Management  •  Speaking  in  Public  •  Engagement  with  Professional  AssociaHons  •  Networking  with  other  professionals    •  Planning  and  carrying  out  public  events,  parHcularly  those  

that  promote  A/V  archiving/preservaHon  •  Engagement  with  the  larger  public  

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Educa&on  &  Training  for  the  A/V  Archive  of  the  Future  (1/2)  

•  Content  needs  to  reflect  much  more  diversity  (in  media,  format,  who  created  it,  …)  

•  Archivists/Curators  are  not  the  sole  authoriHes;  need  to  work  cooperaHvely  with  reflected  communiHes  to  describe  and  provide  access  to  those  collecHons  

•  Need  to  move  away  from  hierarchical  nodes  of  authority  to  more  networked  situaHon  with  grassroots  parHcipaHon  (rhizomaHc  &  weeds)  

h1p://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/howard/Talks/    

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