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Why isn't everything digitized yet? A few weeks ago Indicommons featured an excellent blog post by Deborah Wythe, Head of Digital Collections and Services at the Brooklyn Museum. She poses the question many of us frequently hear: Why isn't everything digitized yet? She then proceeds with a nicely articulated description of some of the challenges, then quantifies them: WITNESS May 15, 2009
Archiving Project: Burma Humanitarian Mission This report is from Jenn Blaylock, NYU Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program: As my time interning at WITNESS Media Archive comes to a close I thought I’d share the details of the archival project that I’ve been working on with the archival blogosphere. Simply put, I organized and digitized a collection of over forty-six […] WITNESS May 6, 2009
Conference: Memory, Archives, Human Rights In Copehagen Denamrk, and Malmö, Sweden, June 4-5, 2009: Archives, Memory and Human Rights. WITNESS May 2, 2009
Citizen Archivists: MiT6 Notes, part 2 Another thematic thread from MIT6, MIT's Media in Transition conference, highlighted by Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Library, Prelinger Archives) at the 2nd plenary, Archives and History. WITNESS April 30, 2009
Immediacy & Persistence: MIT6 Notes part 1 I spent last Friday Saturday and a bit of Sunday at MIT 6, the 6th biennial Media in Transition gathering convened by MIT’s Comparative Media Studies (CMS) program. WITNESS April 28, 2009
Conference: Media in Transition 6 at MIT Media in Transition: April 24 - 26, at MIT. Excerpt from the conference description: " What challenges confront librarians and archivists who must supervise the migration of print culture to digital formats and who must also find ways to preserve and catalogue the vast and increasing range of words and images generated by new technologies? How are shifts in distribution and circulation affecting the stories we tell, the art we produce, the social structures and policies we construct?" WITNESS April 1, 2009
Human Rights Archives: 3 US collections Robin Kirk of the Duke Center for Human Rights writes about Duke’s Archive for Human Rights on her blog, Talking Rights. She has also posted links to recordings of presentations from the recent Forum on Human Rights in Mexico City, which I posted about here. Listen to human rights archivists from three US academic collecting […] WITNESS February 13, 2009
"We work in the fourth dimension": interview with Ian Wilson The UNESCO Courier recently published this interview with Ian Wilson, Librarian and Archivist of Canada, who was elected President of the International Council of Archives (ICA) in July 2008. Wilson discusses how archives are important to human rights struggles and to communal and historical memory. WITNESS January 5, 2009
Intl Forum on Archives & Human Rights I spent several days last week at the International Forum on Archives and Human Rights in Mexico City. Although originally billed as an international conference to bring to together up to 500 archivists and others, it was in fact a small gathering, with only a handful of attendees from outside of Mexico, no prior promotion, […] WITNESS December 16, 2008
from Mexico City… I marked the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights here in Mexico City, at the conference International Forum on Archives and Human Rights. One of the people I met is Robin Kirk, Director of the Duke University Human Rights Center, whose blog from the conference is here. I’ll write some thoughts of […] WITNESS December 12, 2008
Notes on AMIA 2008: Part 2 A few more session highlights: New Media Distribution Technologies. Brian Newman of Tribeca Film Institute gave a great presentation on Re:frame. Archivists, filmmakers, and distributors of independent film should know about Re:frame, which is making all kinds of previously unavailable or hard-to-find independent film available via DVD on demand and download to own/rent. WITNESS is […] WITNESS November 21, 2008
Notes from AMIA 2008: Part 1 Back from the 2008 Association of Moving Image Archives conference (AMIA) in Savannah, a beautiful city. No archive visits, but then Savannah is an archive in itself, and extremely rich in metadata, eg: It was a good conference. A couple of themes were dominant. Key for me was the focus on archiving in the context […] WITNESS November 18, 2008
Stories that must be told: archives & records in post-conflict and peacekeeping The 2nd newsletter of the ICA Human Rights Working group is now available; the highlight is the text of a paper presented by Tom Adami at the ICA Congress last July in Kuala Lumpur. Adami spent eight years as archivist/information manager at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and is now working for the […] WITNESS November 2, 2008
October is American Archives Month… 10 things to read/do/think about: 1. Read Archives and Justice: A South African Perspective by Verne Harris. 2. Check out this upcoming NY Archivists Roundtable workshop: Digital Asset Management and Institutional Repositories: Case Studies Addressing the Development and Implementation of Systems. November 10, 2008. One of the presenters is David Rice, Channel 13’s Digital Archivist. […] WITNESS October 8, 2008
Job announcements for human rights archives/archivists Three current job openings relating to human rights collections: University of Texas Austin: Human Rights Archivist; Columbia University: Director of Area Studies/Global Resources; the position includes serving as the Director of the Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research. Amnesty International (at the Secretariat, UK): Cataloger, Peter Benenson Collection. WITNESS October 2, 2008