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.

我们最初的为期两年的“聚焦女性”项目始于这样的认识：女性电影制作劳动在电影档案领域以及创意工作和文化遗产的其他方面历来都被低估和未被承认。女性很少成为编目或数字化的优先事项，与所涉及的电影制片人相关的元数据有限，并且记录减少或忽视了女性的创造性劳动，特别是在多人创作的作品中。通过重点关注两个合作档案馆（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，我们提供了具体证据，证明了阻碍更多女性电影制作人在电影档案编目实践中露面的根本问题和流程。在确认了这个问题的规模后，我们的项目随后开发了一套实用的档案专用工具，可用于解决在为新目录记录创建元数据以及修改/改进现有元数据时反复出现的问题。“吸引档案工作者：应用新工具和方法以更好地代表视听收藏中的女性”旨在通过与英国和英国的更多档案组织更密切的互动和知识交流来实施该工具包。 爱尔兰。我们将通过 a) 在英国和爱尔兰的电影和媒体档案机构举办的关于档案实践的定制培训课程来部署该工具包； b) 对不太熟悉音像收藏的非专业档案管理员进行更广泛的档案部门培训（我们的项目已发现档案实践中的一个差距）。通过这次培训，我们能够收集有关档案部门通过更广泛地应用和使用我们的工具可以获得的优势的证据。这将使我们能够在更加国际化的层面上倡导档案实践的转变。