Empowering Archivists: Applying New Tools and Approaches for Better Representation of Women in Audio-Visual Collections

赋予档案管理员权力：应用新工具和方法在音像收藏中更好地代表女性

• 批准号: AH/Y007328/1
• 负责人: Keith Mark Johnston
• 金额: $ 14.78万
• 依托单位: University of East Anglia
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FY007328%2F1
• 关键词: Empowering; Archivists; Applying; New; Tools

Our original 2-year 'Women in Focus' project started from the understanding that women's filmmaking labour has been historically underrepresented and unacknowledged, in the world of film archives as much as in other aspects of creative work and cultural heritage. Women have rarely been a priority for cataloguing or digitisation, with limited metadata relating to the filmmakers involved and records that reduce or overlook women's creative labour, particularly in multiple-authored work. Through focusing on collections of amateur filmmaking at two partner archives (the East Anglian Film Archive and the Irish Film Institute Archive), we have provided concrete evidence of the underlying issues and processes that prevent more women filmmakers being visible within film archive cataloguing practices. Having confirmed the scale of this problem our project then developed a set of practical archive-specific tools that can be used to tackle recurring issues when creating metadata for new catalogue records and amending / improving existing metadata.'Engaging Archivists: Applying New Tools and Approaches for Better Representation of Women in Audio-Visual Collections' aims to implement that toolkit through closer interaction and knowledge exchange with an expanded range of archive organisations in the UK and Ireland. We will deploy this toolkit through a) bespoke training sessions on archival practice delivered at film & media archive settings in the UK and Ireland; and b) broader archive sector training for non-specialist archivists who are less familiar with audio-visual collections (a gap in archival practice that our project has identified). Using this training will allow us to gather evidence about the advantages the archive sector can gain through the broader application and use of our tools. This will allow us to advocate for shifts in archive practice at a more international level.

我们最初的2年“焦点女性”项目始于理解，即女性电影制作劳动在电影档案界与创意作品和文化遗产的其他方面一样，历史上的代表性不足和未被承认。妇女很少是编目或数字化的优先事项，而元数据与涉及的电影制片人有关，并减少或忽视了妇女创造性劳动，尤其是在多作者的工作中。通过专注于在两个合作伙伴档案馆（East Anglian电影档案馆和爱尔兰电影学院档案馆）的业余电影制作的收藏，我们为防止更多女性电影制作人在电影档案档案目录的作品中可见的基本问题和过程提供了具体证据。确认了这个问题的规模之后，我们的项目然后开发了一套实用的档案特定工具，这些工具可用于解决新目录记录的元数据并修改 /改善现有元数据时，可以用来解决重复的问题。为了更好地代表妇女在视听藏品中的旨在通过与英国和爱尔兰扩展的众多档案组织的紧密互动和知识交流来实施该工具包。我们将通过a）在英国和爱尔兰的电影与媒体档案环境中提供的有关档案练习的定制培训课程来部署此工具包； b）对不熟悉视听收藏的非专业档案管理员的更广泛的档案部门培训（我们项目已经确定的档案实践的差距）。使用此培训将使我们能够收集有关档案部门可以通过更广泛的应用和使用我们的工具获得的优势的证据。这将使我们能够在更国际上倡导档案实践的转变。