As part of the BBC Academy and Arts Council England joint Building Digital Capacity programme, the SCA was very pleased to participate in its creative use of archive workshop. It focused on how to share existing archive content with an audience on a digital platform and explored new ways of engaging audiences with archive content.
The seminar, aimed at arts organisations and artists from across England, drew on a mixture of arts sector case studies and discussions about the many opportunities and issues associated with archive content.
Speakers included:
Roly Keating, Director of Archive Content, BBC
Andrew Nairne, Executive Director Arts, Arts Council England
Dr Paul Gerhardt, Digital Archives Associate for Arts Council England, Archives for Creativity
Professor Sarah Whatley, Professor of Dance, Coventry University
Cassandra Carias, Senior Associate, Harbottle & Lewis LLP
Naomi Korn, IP Consultant
Siobhan Davis, Siobhan Davis Studios
Get a flavour of the day from the videos below, which feature interviews with the SCA’s Sarah Fahmy, Stuart Dempster and Naomi Korn as well as many of the other speakers and participants in the event.
The audio-visual archives of the BBC contain a wealth of material gathered since it was founded in the 1920’s but it remains largely inaccessible, held on film or videotape and indexed to serve the needs of programme-makers within the BBC.
Chronicle is a new project that explores how material from the BBC’s extensive archive of news coverage of Northern Ireland can be made available for use in further and higher education, combining digitised film and video with tools which can be used to search and tag coverage to be used in research or teaching.
Delivered through a partnership between the JISC-funded Strategic Content Alliance, the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) and the BBC, Chronicle is one of several initiatives from the Archive Development group at the BBC. Its goal is to explore ways in which researchers and teachers can be given access to material from the archive while in return delivering public value back in the form of improved data and information about its own collections for the BBC.
Chronicle will provide Authenticated Users with access to digitised copies of selected news material covering Northern Ireland and The Troubles, along with web-based tools allowing it to be searched, viewed and annotated.
Liam Wyatt, the British Museum’s first Wikipedian-in-residence, explains how the Wikipedia and museum communities can best work together for maximum mutual benefit. This an ‘edited highlights’ version of a longer interview (watch the full interview)
The Museums Libraries and Archive Council’s chief executive, Roy Clare, discusses the MLA’s approach to investment in the cultural sector in these ‘changing times’.
The British Museum’s Wikipedian-in-residence Liam Wyatt explains how Wikipedia and museums can work together for mutual benefit. (This is the feature-length version. There is also an edited highlights version)
Robert Miller, Director of Books at the Internet Archive, describes the Archive’s innovative structure and discusses how it is tackling the funding challenges of the moment
Kevin Guthrie, president of Ithaka, discusses the big issues affecting funders and describes the work Ithaka and the Strategic Content Alliance are doing to help funders and projects become more sustainable.
Gabrielle Blais, Director of the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN), explains how CHIN saw off the recession of the 90s and offers advice to organisations in a similar situation today.
If you downloaded the ’static’ version of the new Digital Content Quarterly, without the embedded videos, there is no need to miss out on the video interviews with Tony Ageh (on the BBC Archive), David Flanders and Andy McGregor (augmented reality and linked data) and Rob Bristow (green ICT). Read on to access the videos on YouTube and Vimeo.
The Strategic Content Alliance works on behalf of the public sector to reduce the barriers that currently inhibit access, use and re-use of digital content and to build a common information environment where users of publicly funded content can gain best value from the investment that has been made. Find out more
