This document provides a summary of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) 2014 conference held in Cape Town, South Africa from October 5-9, 2014. It discusses several presentations and events that took place each day of the conference, including talks on effective broadcast archives, the challenges facing South African national archives, creative reuse of archival materials, and celebrations of archival work in South Africa. The conference focused on connecting cultures, context, collaboration and highlighted the importance of preserving cultural heritage through sound and audiovisual archives.

1. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
Conference - Cape Town 5-9 October 2014
Karen du Toit feedback
IASA 2014

2. CONNECTING CULTURES
CONTENT CONTEXT COLLABORATION

3. THE CENTRE FOR THE BOOK

4. THE CENTRE FOR THE BOOK

5. VIEW FROM THE CENTRE FOR THE BOOK

6. THE COMPANY’S GARDENS

7. SABC DELEGATES

8. WE WERE THERE

9. QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, CAPE TOWN

10. 5 DAYS OF CONFERENCE
IASA programme

11. IASA 2014
DAY 1

12. 5 OCT
Open meetings:
- Training & Education Committee
- Technical Committee

13. BROADCAST ARCHIVES SECTION
M-Net’s journey to an effective
archive
Warren Robbins – Media Coordinator for
MNet

14. M-NET ARCHIVES
2001 start of Archives
“Business was not aware of the true value of the
Archives”
If to survive as an archive
> Interventions
1. New structure
2. Value in promotion of archives
3. Roles in archive section changed

15. M-NET ARCHIVES CONT.
4. Research & Cataloguing team established
5. Media Coordinator roles created
6. Media Asset Management Support Team
7. Project Management team:
- Inventory project
- Digitization
- Off-site storage
- Legacy backlog and outsourcing
8. Vendor

16. M-NET ARCHIVES ACHIEVEMENTS
(WARREN ROBBINS)
Structure
Support from Executive Management
Archives inclusive and placed within Group
Archivists “becoming”
True reflection
Effective staff compliment

17. RESEARCH ARCHIVES SECTION
1. Volume and Noise: Mass publishing of the
NRK Archives (Norwegian Broadcasting
Corporation) – within 5 years
2. Voting in of new RAS
officers
3. Signed up
4. IASA Archives Committee

18. IASA 2014
6 Oct
DAY 2

19. NEW IASA BOARD
ASA Executive Board (2014-2017):
President: Ilse Assmann
Vice President (Conferences): Bruce Gordon
Vice President (Membership): Judith Gray
Vice President (Training): Pio Pellizzari
http://www.iasa-web.org/executive-board

20. KEYNOTE BY VERNE HARRIS

21. SPECTRES OF ARCHIVES AND LIBERATION
“Ghosts in the archives”
Presence and immediacy created by the film
- living dead
Absence about what is present
Megan McShea photo
on Twitter

22. VERNE HARRIS:
4 KEY ABSENCES IN ARCHIVES
1. Absent authors/ creators (text/film)
Can leave a trace when no longer exist
Ghost of person, different who he us now
2. Different content
Structurally full of absent content
Exclusion even in most comprehensive of records
3. Absent context
Wrap with as many metadata, but context changing
4. Absent place of consignation
Original order and original location

23. VERNE HARRIS: “HAUNTED BY PAST”
- Focus on post- apartheid archives
1. Archives accessible?
2. Using archives to redress post- apartheid
3. Using voices from archives from those
excluded previously.
4. Transforming public archives in auditors
of record-keeping

24. VERNE HARRIS: THE HOPES OF THE POST-APARTHEID
PERIOD NOT REALIZED!
The work of National Archives in trouble!
- Vision of 1990s gone
- Underfunded
- System not delivering
- (Conclusions by the Archival Platform - detailed analysis over last two years)
- Does not measure well against key objectives
- Public Archives not equipped to do records keeping
- Undermines service delivery and creates environment in which corruption thrives
- Oral history projects problematic
- Huge potential of digitization not harnessed
- Archives remain domain of elite
- Only fraction of their holdings found online
Public Archives remain geared to paper based records
- Ironically public access remain more restricted
- Promotion of Access to Info Act used for gate keeping!

25. CURATING THE HIDDEN YEARS MUSIC ARCHIVES
Dr Lizabé Lambrechts
(Documentation Centre
of Music, Stellenbosch
Univ)
The Hidden Years Music
Archive
David Marks
He recorded everything –
huge collection of music
archives in South Africa
3rd Ear Music
Facebook
Domus
Importance to SA Music
heritage

26. Kirstenbosch Gardens
LAUNCH TC 05

27. IASA PUBLISHES AUTHORITATIVE GUIDE ON
HANDLING AND STORAGE OF SOUND AND VIDEO
RECORDINGS
TC 05

28. FUNCTION AT KIRSTENBOSCH

29. IASA 2014
DAY 3

30. CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF ARCHIVAL
PRESERVATION OF AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS IN
THE NATIONAL FILM, VIDEO AND SOUND
ARCHIVES OF SOUTH AFRICA
Dr Nthabiseng Ncala
- Current AV scernario
- Identifying future preservation
- Oldest film 1898

31. COST OF INACTION CALCULATOR
Bertram Lyons
The end of analogue audiovisual media: the
cost of inaction & what you can do about it

32. COI
Assumptions:
• We have invested in physical AV collections
• Degradation and obsolence are real
• Digitization only option
• Items not digitized will be lost
• Need persuasive arguments: ROI
• 11 variables in COI calculator (beta)
• https://coi.avpreserve.com

33. PROFESSIONAL VISITS
District 6 Museum

34. DISTRICT 6 MUSEUM SOUND ARCHIVE
Oral History project

35. DISTRICT 6 MUSEUM

37. IASA 2014
DAY 4

38. AN ARCHIVAL APPROACH TO PROCESSING
MIXED MEDIA COLLECTIONS
MEGAN MCSHEA ( ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION)

39. ACCESS TO MIXED MEDIA ARCHIVES
Enable all archivists
Improve physical &
intellectual access to
AV
Measurable standards
Guidelines
American Archivist Vol
68, no 2

40. ARTISTS AS ARCHIVISTS
Diana Chester & Heidi Stalla
(Play audio on Evernote – “Call to prayer”)

41. ARTISTS AS ARCHIVISTS
To get important cultural heritage out into the
community
Preservation, archiving, but also creating
new compositions
Pave way for healing and reconciliation
Practise of form-shifting (new
methodology)

42. -Creating sonic archival
material
-- Potentially
controversial use of
archival material and the
role that artists can play
as archivists
-Warning about
custodian and caretaker
roles!
-- Not to replace archive
material!
ARTISTS AS ARCHIVISTS

43. CREATIVE RE-USE OF DUTCH AND BRITISH
SOUND ARCHIVES
LIZZY KOMEN
SlideShare

44. VIMEO VIDEO

45. CREATIVE RE-USE
An increasing amount of sounds and images
from European archives, museums and
libraries are available for creative re-use. For
the Europeana Creative Challenge, we’re
looking for innovative projects that use
archival material available via Europeana
(europeana.eu) in a creative way. Send in
your own idea to create, for example, a
mash-up, an app or a game at
ecreativechallenges2014.istart

46. Hannes Coetzee
All in One
7 Steps Minstrels Goema Troupe
CAPE MUSIC SHOWCASE CONCERT

47. HANNES COETZEE
Spoon sliding technique
YouTube:
http://t.co/1RefMPYuJ7

48. ALL IN ONE
STEVE NEWMAN, ERROL DYERS & HILTON SCHILDER
Steve Newman response in Daily Maverick

49. VINE

50. IASA 2014
DAY 5

51. FROM BROADCASTING TO ARCHIVING
ILSE ASSMANN

52. READ MORE HERE
IASA Conference
IASA Web
Storify #iasa2014

53. Thank you very much for the opportunity!
IASA 2014