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

我们最初为期两年的“聚焦妇女”项目始于这样一种认识，即妇女的电影制作劳动历来在电影档案的世界中以及在创造性工作和文化遗产的其他方面都没有得到充分的代表和承认。妇女很少成为编目或数字化的优先事项，与所涉电影制片人有关的元数据有限，记录减少或忽视了妇女的创造性劳动，特别是在多人创作的作品中。通过专注于两个合作伙伴档案馆（东盎格鲁电影档案馆和爱尔兰电影学院档案馆）的业余电影制作收藏，我们提供了具体的证据，说明了阻止更多女性电影制片人在电影档案馆编目实践中出现的潜在问题和过程。在确认了这个问题的规模之后，我们的项目开发了一套实用的档案专用工具，可用于解决为新目录记录创建元数据和修改/改进现有元数据时经常出现的问题。“聘用档案工作者：“采用新的工具和方法在音像收藏中更好地代表妇女”的目的是通过与联合王国和爱尔兰范围更广的档案组织进行更密切的互动和知识交流来实施这一工具包。我们将通过以下方式部署这一工具包：a）在英国和爱尔兰的电影和媒体档案馆举办关于档案实践的定制培训课程;以及B）为不太熟悉音像收藏的非专业档案工作者提供更广泛的档案部门培训（我们的项目已经确定了档案实践中的一个差距）。通过这次培训，我们将收集有关档案部门通过更广泛地应用和使用我们的工具所能获得的优势的证据。这将使我们能够在更国际化的层面上倡导档案实践的转变。

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.