Artists' Film and Video Database/Digitised Collection Projects: Addressing sustainability and historiography

现在，英国有相当数量的项目正在创建数字化收藏、数字档案和在线数据库，这些项目涉及艺术家电影和视频的各个方面，它们跨越了电影研究、视觉艺术和表演等学科。其中的关键是：1。英国艺术家的电影和录像研究收藏（基于中央圣马丁艺术与设计学院）倒带：70年代和80年代的艺术家录像（以邓迪大学为基地）基于英国艺术家电影和视频发行商的关键文件和叙事年表的数据（基于桑德兰大学）捕捉过去，保存未来：全国现场艺术评论视频收藏的数字化（基于布里斯托尔大学）计算机艺术背景历史等（CACHe）（总部设在伦敦伯克贝克大学）Luxonline（总部设在伦敦的Lux酒店）Screenonline（总部设在伦敦的英国电影学院）这些资源是无价的，因为它们提供了以前难以获得的材料。然而，尽管这些项目共享重要的连接点，但目前还没有基础设施将它们及其在线资源连接在一起，以开发其潜在的协同作用和用途。研究网络将汇集这些项目和倡议的代表，以及英国艺术委员会、英国电影学院和泰特美术馆的代表，以及AHDS和AHRC ICT方法网络的顾问，以解决两个关键问题：(a)；管理这些资源的未来——作为一个可持续的资源网络——超越任何特定项目的资助，以及(b)最大限度地利用它们；学院内外研究人员的使用能力。为此，它将为该网络的核心成员举办4次研讨会，在这些研讨会上，可以集思广益/讨论解决这两个关键问题的想法和策略，并制定实施计划。此外，该网络将举办两个“开放”研讨会，向更广泛的受众传播这些发现/征求反馈，并与其他相关的英国项目和欧洲大陆类似的数据库/数字存档计划进行公开讨论，这将有助于建立联系。

There are now a significant number of projects in the UK which are creating digitised collections, digital archives and online databases dealing with various aspects of artists' film and video, and together they span the disciplines of film studies, visual arts and performance. Key among these are:1. The British Artists' Film & Video Study Collection (based at Central St Martins College of Art & Design)2. REWIND: Artists' Video in the 70s & 80s (based at University of Dundee)3. Data basing key documents and narrative chronologies of artists' film and video distributors in the UK (based at University of Sunderland)4. Capturing the past, preserving the future: digitisation of the National Review of Live Art video collection (based at University of Bristol)5. Computer Art Context History Etc. (CACHe) (based at Birkbeck University of London)6. Luxonline (based at the Lux, London)7. Screenonline (based at the British Film Institute, London)8. lniVA -Institute of International Visual Arts (London)These resources are invaluable since they make available material that has been previously difficult to access. However, although these projects share important points of connection, there is as yet no infrastructure which links them and their online resources together in order to develop their potential synergies and uses.The research network will bring together representatives from these projects and initiatives, together with representatives from the Arts Council England, the British Film Institute and the Tate, and advisers from the AHDS and the AHRC ICT Methods Network, in order to address two key issues: (a) ;curing the future of these resources- as a network of sustainable resources- beyond any project specific funding, and (b) maximising both their; ability to and use by researchers both inside and outside the academy. It will do this by holding 4 workshops for the core members of the network where ideas and strategies can be brainstormed /discussed to address these two key issues, and their implementation planned. In addition, the network will host two 'open' workshops to disseminate these findings to/solicit feedback from a wider audience and to open discussions with other related UK based projects and similar database/digital archiving initiatives in mainland Europe with which it would be beneficial to make links.