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.

我们最初为期两年的“聚焦女性”项目始于这样一种认识，即女性的电影制作劳动在历史上一直没有得到充分的代表和承认，无论是在电影档案领域，还是在创意工作和文化遗产的其他方面。女性很少成为编目或数字化的优先对象，与所涉及的电影人有关的元数据和记录有限，减少或忽视了女性的创造性劳动，特别是在多作者的作品中。通过关注两个合作伙伴档案馆（东安格利亚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，证明了潜在的问题和过程，这些问题和过程阻碍了更多的女性电影人在电影档案馆编目实践中被看到。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特定于存档的工具，可以用来解决在为新目录记录创建元数据和修改/改进现有元数据时反复出现的问题。“档案工作者参与：应用新工具和方法，以更好地代表妇女在视听收藏”旨在通过更密切的互动和知识交流，在英国和爱尔兰的档案组织范围扩大实施工具包。我们将通过a)在英国和爱尔兰的电影和媒体档案设置中提供档案实践的定制培训课程来部署该工具包；b)为不太熟悉视听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空白）。通过这种培训，我们可以收集证据，证明档案部门可以通过更广泛地应用和使用我们的工具来获得优势。这将使我们能够在更国际化的水平上倡导档案实践的转变。