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Transformation as Stability: Audiovisual Archives in the Era of New Media.
/The one who evolves, endures
J. Rainis/
BAAC annual conference (known already as Riga Seminar) this year takes place in Tartu 24.09-27.09.2008, the historical university town in the southern Estonia.
The conference will be hosted by the Estonian Literary Museum and the Estonian National Museum
This
year the conference takes a look at the rapidly developing media and
the changes it has brought to the audiovisual archives. The new media
has turned our world from textual to audiovisual one. In order to
ensure their continuous existence audiovisual archives have to change,
accept new roles and acquire new skills. Changes have affected the
social values, but have they also changed the value systems in the
archives?
The topic gives us an opportunity to observe the
problems of archiving ever altering forms of digital media, and coping
with the constantly growing amount of resource materials.
An
archive as a symbol of stability and continuity has to combine
tradition with innovation. In developing new solutions and renewing the
archiving criteria are the archives moulding their user or are the
users shaping the archives?
The user expectations and the usage
practices of audiovisual materials have certainly changed. How those
changes have influenced the everyday archival work?
Will the
analogue material be there only to serve as a guarantee of trust in the
future of "intangible archives"? Audiovisual archives today have to
preserve fading crafts to providing hi-tech access tomorrow. We hope to
look into the digital future not neglecting our analogue heritage.
For
survival archives should also look back to changes in the history, how
the radical political changes and censorship have influenced their
realm.
The conference language is English.
The program committee:
Juozas Markauskas
Piret Noorhani
Aldis Putelis
Conference organisers:
Andris Ķesteris - Library and Archives Canada
Marin Laak- Estonian Literary Museum
Piret Noorhani- Estonian National Museum
Maarja Savan- Esonian Literary Museum
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