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”项目始于这样一种理解，即在电影档案界以及在创作工作和文化遗产的其他方面，妇女的电影制作劳动历来没有得到充分的代表和承认。妇女很少被列为编目或数字化的优先事项，与所涉电影制作人有关的元数据有限，减少或忽视妇女创造性劳动的记录，特别是在多人创作的作品中。通过重点关注两个伙伴档案馆(东英吉利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，说明阻碍更多女性电影制作人出现在电影档案馆编目实践中的根本问题和过程。在确认了这个问题的严重程度后，我们的项目随后开发了一套实用的档案专用工具，可以用来解决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。“让档案工作者参与：应用新工具和方法，更好地代表妇女在视听收藏中的地位”旨在通过与英国和爱尔兰更广泛的档案组织更密切的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和媒体档案馆举办关于档案做法的定制培训课程；以及b)对不太熟悉音像收藏的非专业档案员进行更广泛的档案部门培训(我们的项目发现了档案做法方面的差距)，来部署这一工具包。利用这项培训，我们将能够收集证据，说明档案部门可以通过更广泛地应用和使用我们的工具而获得的好处。这将使我们能够在更国际化的层面上倡导档案做法的转变。