Please join us for the Audio and Moving Image Annual Section Meeting held virtually on Thursday, July 25th from 2pm-3:30pm EST.
The meeting is free and open to all, but please register to hear about Section business and a discussion on: Archival Description of Sound and Video Recordings
Presenters:
- Matt Testa, Archivist for the Arthur Friedheim Library at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where he manages special collections and institutional records related to music and dance. Since starting in that position in 2016, Matt helped build a digital archives program that now processes approximately 650 new institutional video recordings per year.
- Elizabeth Surles, Archivist at the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University-Newark, has been describing archival audio collections for more than 20 years. Her 2018 article "Sound practice: exploring DACS compliance in archival description of music recordings" demonstrates the range of descriptive practice in online finding aids and the need for more archival guidance in how to approach standards-based description.
Topic:
What are some best practices for describing sound and video recordings in archival finding aids? When we don't have the luxury of full cataloging, how can we apply DACS and other metadata standards to describe individual recordings efficiently for our growing digital collections? This talk will present some of the questions that two performing arts archives have had to wrestle with. Attendees are invited to share their own case studies and challenges.
Please come join us on July 25th to hear these fascinating presenters and to have an open discussion on audio and moving image archival description! Don't forget to register here!
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Felicia Boretzky
Media Collection Specialist
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
Washington DC
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