Event: British and Irish Sound Archives’ Annual Conference
Venue: Manx Museum, Kingswood Grove, Douglas, IM1 3LY
Dates: 17 and 18 May 2013
Friday, 17 May 2013
09.30 - Registration and refreshments
10:30 - Welcome by Simon Rooks, BISA Convenor
10:40 - Digitising Sound Archives - A Manx Case Study, Paul Weatherall and Roland Ardern-Corris, both of Manx Heritage, followed by Q&A session
11:20 - Case study: Music Austria’s European funded project to improve management of and access to their sound archive (further information available from the On Media website, Rainer Praschak of Music Austria and Jana Wedekind of IN2 Search Interfaces Development Ltd, followed by Q&A session
12:00 - Widening access to sound archives through the participation process, Tilly Blyth, Keeper of Technology and Engineering at the Science Museum and Jen Kavanagh, Audience Engagement Manager for Making Modern Communications at the Science Museum, followed by Q&A session
12:40 - Lunch (not provided)
14:00 - Metadata standards, tools and processes for audio preservation at the British Library: an overview of new systems for audio description, preservation and access, Adam Tovell of the British Library, followed by Q&A session
14:40 - Building a digital repository for Ireland; building a digital community, Dr Natalie Harrower, Manager of Education and Outreach at the Digital Repository of Ireland, followed by Q&A session
15.20 - Refreshments
15.40 - Development of a Scottish Sound Archive: an overview, Alistair Bell of the National Library of Scotland, followed by Q&A session
16:30 - AGM
17:00 - Close
Saturday, 18 May 2013
09:30 - Roundtable discussion on “What’s stopping you digitising your archive?”
This event will be led by members of the BISA Committee. Though a lot of sound archives have digitized their collections to a greater or lesser extent, there are often aspects of the process which remain challenging; for example, resources, expertise, advocacy and metadata issues. There are no single answers to any of these, and the aim of the session is purely practical: for people to bring immediate obstructive issues, and with the help of those gathered, to go away with a better idea of how to overcome them.
11:00 - Tour of Manx Radio
12:30 - Close