International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives

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International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
AbbreviationIASA
Formation1969
Purpose Professional Body
Region served
Worldwide
Membership420
Official language
English, French, German, Spanish
President
Tre Berney
Affiliations Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations
Website Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives

The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) was established in 1969 to serve as a forum for international co-operation between archives, libraries, and individuals interested in the preservation of recorded sound and audiovisual documents. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

IASA aims

The IASA constitution [4] states the following purposes:

Membership

IASA has members from more than 70 countries representing a broad palette of audiovisual archives and personal interests which are distinguished by their focus on particular subjects and areas, for example: archives for all sorts of musical recordings, historic, literary, folkloric and ethnological sound documents, theatre productions and oral history interviews, bio-acoustics, environmental and medical sounds, linguistic and dialect recordings, as well as recordings for forensic purposes.

IASA activities

IASA promotes the open and ongoing exchange of ideas and information on current issues in the audiovisual field via annual conferences, an IASA Journal, email list and the IASA web site.

Annual conferences

IASA has held a conference each year since its inception, sometimes in partnership with related organisations. [5] In 2010, IASA and the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) came together for the first time in a joint IASA-AMIA conference held in Philadelphia, USA. With more than 750 participants and more than 100 presentations and lectures this was one of the biggest conferences in the audiovisual archiving field ever. The 2013 conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, was held in association with the Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council. The 2019 conference was held in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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1969/1987
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Annual conferences in Europe
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2018
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YearHost countryCo-organiser
1969 Amsterdam, Netherlands
1970 Leipzig, German Democratic Republic with IAML
1971 St Gallen, Switzerland with IAML
1972 Bologna, Italy with IAML
1973 London, United Kingdom with IAML
1974 Jerusalem, Israel with IAML
1975 Montreal, Canada with IAML
1976 Bergen, Norway with IAML
1977 Mainz, Federal Republic of Germany with IAML
1978 Lisbon, Portugal with IAML
1979 Salzburg, Austria with IAML
1980 Cambridge, United Kingdom with IAML
1981 Budapest, Hungary with IAML
1982 Brussels, Belgium with IAML
1983 Washington DC, United States with IAML
1984 Como, Italy with IAML
1985 East Berlin, German Democratic Republic with IAML
1986 Stockholm, Sweden with IAML
1987 Amsterdam, Netherlands with IAML
1988 Vienna, Austria First IASA solo conference
1989 Oxford, United Kingdom with IAML
1990 Ottawa, Canada with ARSC & Canadian Association of Music Libraries
1991 Sopron, Hungary
1992 Canberra, Australia with ASRA
1993 Helsinki, Finland with IAML
1994 Berlin, Germany with FIAT/IFTA
1995 Washington DC, United States with FIAT/IFTA & ARSC
1996 Perugia, Italy [6] with IAML
1997 Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
1998 Paris, France with AFAS
1999 Vienna, Austria [7] Arbeitsgemeinschaft audiovisueller Archive Österreichs
2000 Singapore [8] National Archives of Singapore, with Southeast Asia-Pacific Audio Visual Archives Association (SEAPAVAA)
2001 London, United Kingdom [9] The British Library
2002 Arhus, Denmark [10] Statsbibioteket - State and University Library, Denmark
2003 Pretoria, South Africa
2004 Oslo, Norway [11] with IAML
2005 Barcelona, Spain
2006 Mexico City, Mexico
2007 Riga, Latvia [12] Latvian Television, Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council
2008 Sydney, Australia [13] Australian National Maritime Museum
2009 Athens, Greece [14] Hellenic National Audiovisual Archive
2010 Philadelphia, United States [15] with Association of Moving Image Archivists
2011 Frankfurt, Germany [16] German National Library
Hessischer Rundfunk
German Broadcasting Archive
2012 New Delhi, India [17] AIIS Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology
2013 Vilnius, Lithuania [18] Vilnius University, Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council
2014 Cape Town, South Africa [19] National Library of South Africa's Center for the Book
2015 Paris, France [20] Bibliothèque nationale de France
2016 Washington DC, United States [21] Library of Congress
2017 Berlin [22] Ethnological Museum
2018 Accra, Ghana [23] Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
2019 Hilversum, Netherlands [24] Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
2020 Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland [25] with International Federation of Television Archives, Raidió Teilifís Éireann. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the uncertainties it brings, the Organising committee has made the decision to host a virtual conference instead of a physical meeting.
2021Virtual conference, [26]
2022 Mexico City, Mexico, [27] Fonoteca Nacional

Publications

IASA follows closely the progress of technology and members can call upon a pool of expertise for help and advice on various aspects, ranging from digitisation to metadata to technical issues. In this regard, IASA has published a number of special publications: [28]

Awards and grants

The organisation issues awards for outstanding contributions to the profession of sound and audiovisual archiving, as well as financial support for research, for training, and for participating in annual conferences:

Collaboration

IASA has long standing relationships with international organisations such as UNESCO and Europeana and is a respected partner in various international audiovisual archive projects. IASA is a founding member of the CCAAA (Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archive Associations).

In 2012 and 2013, IASA hosted the official website of the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, an event held annually on 27 October to raise awareness of the significance of and threats to sound and moving image heritage worldwide.

Executive Board and President

Executive Board

Term of office from 2020 to 2023: [29]

President

Source: [30]

Previous Board members

Committees and Sections

IASA Committees focus on topics that are of common interest to all archives and collections. IASA Sections provide a platform for the exchange of information between specific types of archives and collections.

Organising Knowledge Committee

The Organising Knowledge Committee concerns itself with standards and rules as well as with systems, automated or manual, for the documentation and cataloguing of audiovisual media. Officers (chairpersons, secretaries) of the Organising Knowledge Committee (previously known as the Cataloguing and Documentation Committee) are elected within the committee. The committees exclusively decide on the objects and tasks they deal with. [31]

Discography Committee

The Discography Committee deals with standards and recommended practices, as well as current and ongoing projects involving published recordings. Officers of the Discography Committee (chairpersons, secretaries) are elected within the committee. The committees exclusively decide on the objects and tasks they deal with. [32]

Technical Committee

The Technical Committee devotes itself to all technical aspects of sound and audiovisual recordings. This includes the actual recording processes, optimisation of reproduction of historical and modern recordings, transfer and digitisation technologies, standards and storage technologies, software and carriers. The Technical Committee is concerned with the preservation of sound and audiovisual media and technically sustainable approaches to future access. The creation of special publications enabling the AV archive community to take educated decisions regarding this, is a main concern of the committee. The Technical Committee has delivered several papers, which serve as technical guidelines, in the series Standards, Recommended Practices and Strategies. Officers of the Technical Committee (chairpersons, secretaries) are elected within the committee. The committees exclusively decide on the objects and tasks they deal with. [33]

Training & Education Committee

The Training & Education Committee seeks to create and support an Audiovisual archival community who are knowledgeable, professional, capable of caring for their collections effectively, and acknowledged as such by their institutions or wider professional community. Officers of the Training & Education Committee (chairpersons, secretaries) are elected within the committee. The committees exclusively decide on the objects and tasks they deal with. The Training and Education Committee concerns itself with audiovisual archiving Training & Education, as well as concentrated actions in gaining multifunctional training and education material. [34]

National Archives Section

The National Archives Section is where members meet to consider issues facing officially designated national collections, e.g. acquisition policies, legal deposit, the management of large collections, whether held in archives, museums, libraries, dedicated audiovisual organisations or research institutes and universities. [35]

Broadcast Archives Section

The Broadcast Archives Section handles the special responsibilities of audiovisual archives in broadcast companies. [36]

Europeana Sounds Task Force

The Europeana Sounds Task Force works on the following activities: [37]

Regional branches

National and regional branches of IASA, with their own membership and activities, exist for Austria, Britain and Ireland and German-Swissgerman regions. [38]

See also

References

  1. Lance, D. (ed.) (1984) Sound Archives. A Guide to their Establishment and Development . IASA Special Publication no. 4
  2. Scharlau, Ulf. (1999). A personal review of thirty years of IASA (1969-1999). IASA Information Bulletin, August 1999, Special Issue, pp 8-11
  3. Assmann, I. (2009) International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). In: Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition ISBN   978-0-8493-9712-7. Taylor & Francis
  4. IASA constitution
  5. IASA conferences
  6. "27th Annual Conference: IAML-IASA Annual Conference". Homepage IASA Annual Conference. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). 1996. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  7. "30th Annual Conference: A Century of Sound Archiving". Homepage IASA Annual Conference. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). 1999. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  8. "31th Annual Conference: A Future for the Past: AV Archiving in the 3rd Millennium". Homepage IASA Annual Conference. Southeast Asia-Pacific Audio Visual Archives Association. 2000. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  9. "32nd Annual Conference: WHY COLLECT? - THE PURPOSE OF AUDIO-VISUAL ARCHIVES". Homepage IASA Annual Conference. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). 2001. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  10. "33th Annual Conference: Digital Asset Management and Preservation". Homepage IASA Annual Conference. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). 2002. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  11. "35th Annual Conference: Music and multimedia". Homepage IASA Annual Conference. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). 2004. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  12. "38th Annual Conference: Building an Archive for the Future". Homepage IASA Annual Conference. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). 2007. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  13. "39th Annual Conference: No Archive Is An Island". Homepage IASA Annual Conference. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). 2008. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  14. "40th Annual Conference: Towards a new kind of archive? The digital philosophy in audiovisual archives". Homepage IASA Annual Conference. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). 2009. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  15. "41th Annual Conference: IASA and the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) will come together for the first time in a joint conference". Homepage IASA Annual Conference. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). 2010. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  16. "42nd Annual Conference: IDigital Sense and Nonsense: Digital Decision Making in Sound and Audiovisual Collections". Homepage IASA Annual Conference. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  17. "43rd Annual Conference: In Transition: Access for All". Homepage IASA Annual Conference. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  18. "44th Annual Conference: Open Doors: New Ideas, New Technologies". Homepage IASA Annual Conference. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). 2013. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  19. "45th Annual Conference: Connecting Cultures: Content, Context, and Collaboration". Homepage IASA Annual Conference. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). 2014. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  20. "46th Annual Conference: All for One — One for All: Common Concerns — Shared Solutions". Homepage IASA Annual Conference. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  21. "47th Annual Conference:A World of Opportunity: Audiovisual Archives and the Digital Landscape". Homepage IASA Annual Conference. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  22. "IASA 2017 Annual Conference: Integration and Innovation: Bringing Workflows and Formats Together in the Digital Era". Homepage IASA Annual Conference. IASA. 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  23. "49th Annual Conference: Access and Accessibility - Archival Policies and Barriers in the Age of Global Information Exchange". Homepage IASA Annual Conference. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  24. "IASA 2019 Annual Conference: 50th Annual Conference". Homepage IASA Annual Conference. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  25. "IASA 2020 Annual Conference: 51st Annual Conference". Homepage IASA Annual Conference. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). 2020. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  26. "IASA 2021 Annual Conference". Homepage IASA Annual Conference. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  27. "IASA 2022 Annual Conference". Homepage IASA Annual Conference. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
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  30. "Previous Board members". Homepage IASA. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  31. "Organising Knowledge Committee | International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives". www.iasa-web.org. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  32. "Discography Committee | International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives". www.iasa-web.org. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  33. "Technical Committee | International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives". www.iasa-web.org. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  34. "Training & Education Committee | International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives". www.iasa-web.org. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  35. "National Archives Section | International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives". www.iasa-web.org. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  36. "Broadcast Archives Section | International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives". www.iasa-web.org. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  37. "Europeana Sounds Task Force | International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives". www.iasa-web.org. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  38. "Regional Branches | International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives". www.iasa-web.org. Retrieved 2020-03-28.