Submissions | International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) Journal

Published peer-reviewed articles on audiovisual archives.

Neglect, Stammering, Focus: Processes of an Archival Experience of Archive Collections and Audiovisual Projects at AMU Posted on the Web Over the Past 30 Years

The presentation aims to offer both a reflective history of practices and to highlight the challenges faced by a Mediterranean sound archives and research center at Aix-Marseille University, as the world of the web and its uses unfolds. The first email written from the UMR TELEMMe, my laboratory created in 1994 at the Université de Provence, was sent from the Sound Archives Department in 1995, yet it was never archived. The first online sound archives database, was created using MySQL in 1997, it left no trace. The first relational database software that facilitated the online publication and documentation of the sound archives dates back to the early 2000s, but it was only in 2005 that we thought to archive parts of this documentation on the Wayback Machine. In 2020, the database software the Sound archives center had been using was acquired and a retroconversion of all metadata was required. We did it in EAD format and made an export in DC format from the OAIPMH repository ; we hope the metadata of the new platform will soon be archived at CINES – it is the platform of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. The editorial projects of the "Pôle image-sons, pratiques du numérique" in which I have been involved since 1998, could now be described using terms like "new media" or "alternative narratives." These projects were online and operated with Adobe Flash. Fortunately, this time, we archived them using Conifer and the Wayback Machine before Flash's discontinuation in 2019. In recent months, we contacted INA for legal web deposit, and we are awaiting confirmation on whether the database will be included. The blog for the "Pôle images-sons pratiques du numérique" project, which captured content from the older site (the form is available on the Wayback Machine), is saved on the CINES servers by the platform Hypotheses itself. The web archiving process for projects from an archival center requires careful foresight. However, the first challenge is simply remembering to think about it. Using a data base daily fosters a form of negligence: tomorrow, I will still have access to the site, and the day after that as well. Yet, there comes a day when everything stops. As I write this summary, the Wayback Machine has been forced to suspend operations due to a cyberattack—a sobering reminder of the fragility of our web archiving efforts and the limited tools available to us.This presentation also aims to highlight the issue of web archive hosting, considering the various archiving spaces while recognizing the risks inherent in large, centralized spaces that host data and which are often seen as high-value targets for hackers.

Cahiers d’ethnomusicologie – Société française d'ethnomusicologie

The First-Ever Audio Recording of Kazakh Music - The Times Of Central Asia

It was long believed that the world's first audio recording of Kazakh music was made in 1925 during the performance of singer, Amre Kashaubaev, at the

A Digital Archive Features Hundreds of Audio Cassette Tape Designs, from the 1960s to the 1990s

Audio cassette tapes first appeared on the market in the early nineteen-sixties, but it would take about a decade before they came to dominate it.

Call for papers – Sonorités : New Uses of Oral and Audiovisual Interviews in Research

Exploring New Uses of Recorded Interviews: Call for Contributions from Early-Career Researchers Utilizing Audio or Audiovisual Sources in Their Work Sonorités of AFAS, the French association for sound, oral and audiovisual documents, is launching a new call for papers exploring the new uses of recorded surveys, aimed at young researchers who use sound or audiovisual … Continuer la lecture de Call for papers – Sonorités : New Uses of Oral and Audiovisual Interviews in Research →

‘Mixed By Erry’ ou brève histoire des supports sonores analogiques

Il m’arrive désormais lorsque j’interviens dans le cadre d’enseignements universitaires sur le patrimoine oral ou de formations sur la collecte que des étudiant·e·s ouvrent de grands yeux étonnés quand je leur montre des bobines ou des cassettes audios. Ne parlons pas du minisdisc ou du DAT, la plupart du temps personne ne sait de quoi … Continuer la lecture de ‘Mixed By Erry’ ou brève histoire des supports sonores analogiques →

INET-md | One Research Grant - Master, enrolled in Ph.D | 34908/2023/1BI_MSc/INETmd

A tender is hereby opened for the award of 1 Research Grant (RG) in the scope of R&D project/unit Institute of Ethnomusicology - Center for Studies in Music and Dance, INET-md – University of Aveiro, with the financial support of the Foundation for Science an

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