The Invisible Women - Developing a Feminist Approach to Film Archive Metadata and Cataloguing

我们的项目“看不见的女人——发展电影资料馆元数据和编目的女权主义方法”旨在探索电影资料馆如何通过女权主义研究方法采取实际行动来更新、增强和改进编目元数据。通过这种方式，我们将揭示与女性创造力相关的隐藏遗产。数字元数据和目录记录是不同档案馆如何表现其馆藏和材料的关键因素。最近的研究表明，现有的假设如何导致数据集中的关键缺失，包括妇女在内的不同群体被忽视和隐藏。例如，在电影档案记录和编目指南中，国际元数据模式通过不识别个人性别而使女性的贡献不可见。在现有的电影资料馆元数据系统中，缺乏一种女权主义的数字策展方法，这意味着女性的创造性劳动在目录记录中没有得到充分承认，这可能导致她们的创造力在国家和地区电影收藏中被忽视。该项目扩展了2019年对英国六个地区档案馆目录记录的试点研究，该研究揭示了目前缺乏与女性电影人有关的详细目录元数据。与电影档案馆合作，其中许多人意识到将对女性电影人的承诺转化为实际行动的实际困难以及公认的档案标准的局限性，我们将重点关注两个关键方面：a)提供实际干预措施，以限定和扩展电影档案馆（和其他档案实践）中现有的和新的元数据；b)探索两个国家收藏的女性业余电影人编目；东安格利亚电影资料馆（EAFA）的业余电影摄影师协会和IFI爱尔兰电影资料馆（IIFA）的收藏。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，在电影档案的世界里，在创造性工作和文化遗产的其他方面也是如此。在这里，我们将重点关注业余电影制作中的女性——这是一个创造性制作的替代领域，近一个世纪以来，女性的创造力、兴趣和关注点都得到了表达。然而，业余电影在编目或数字化方面的优先级很低，这意味着与所涉及的女性电影人有关的元数据有限：这些记录往往会减少或忽视女性的创造性劳动，尤其是在多作者的作品中。通过结合对隐藏的女性创造力的关注，英国和爱尔兰女性业余电影人的世界，以及档案馆可以采取的深化和丰富现有和新的目录元数据的实际步骤，我们打算让目前看不见的东西变得可见。这将包括由这些创新的女性创作新的数字化电影，提供更完整的目录记录，以及我们与合作伙伴EAFA和IIFA的研究的实际应用。

Our project, "The Invisible Women - Developing a Feminist Approach to Film Archive Metadata and Cataloguing" intends to explore how film archives can take practical action to update, enhance and improve catalogue metadata via feminist research methodologies. By using this approach, we will reveal the hidden heritage related to women's creativity.Digital metadata and catalogue records are a crucial element of how different archives represent the collections and materials they hold. Recent research has shown how existing assumptions can lead to key absences within data sets, with different groups being overlooked and hidden, including women. Within film archives records and cataloguing guidelines, for instance, international metadata schemas make women's contributions invisible by not identifying the gender of individuals. The absence of a feminist-informed approach to digital curation within existing film archive metadata systems has meant that women's creative labour is not fully acknowledged within catalogue records, which can lead to their creativity being invisible within national and regional film collections.This project expands out from a pilot study of catalogue records from six UK regional archives conducted in 2019 which revealed the current paucity of detailed catalogue metadata relating to women filmmakers. Working with film archives, many of which are aware of the practical difficulties in converting a commitment to women filmmakers into practical actions and the limitations of recognised archival standards, wee will focus on two key aspects: a) Offering practical interventions to qualify and expand existing and new metadata within film archives (and other archival practices)b) Exploring the cataloguing of women amateur filmmakers across two national collections: the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers at the East Anglian Film Archive (EAFA) and the collections of the IFI Irish Film Archive (IIFA).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. We will focus here on women within amateur filmmaking - an alternative arena of creative production that has given voice to women's creativity, interests, and concerns for almost a century. Yet amateur films have been a low priority for cataloguing or digitisation, which means there is limited metadata relating to the women filmmakers involved: records that tend to reduce or overlook women's creative labour, particularly in multiple-authored work.By combining a focus on hidden women's creativity, the world of the women amateur filmmakers in the UK and Ireland, and the practical steps that archives can take to deepen and enrich existing and new catalogue metadata, we intend to make visible what is currently invisible. This will include creating newly digitised films by these innovative women, offering fuller catalogue records, and the practical application of our research with our partners EAFA and IIFA.