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Registration open for 2019 BISA conference

webmanager — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 15:44:57 +0000

Registration is now open for the 2019 BISA conference.

Advance payment is not required: so just book now, pay at the door! However, there are limited places, so please book early.

Full details of the programme, with advice on accommodation, transport etc are here:

BISA conference 2019

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BISA Conference 2019

webmanager — Tue, 07 May 2019 09:12:34 +0000

The 2019 BISA Conference will be held in Dublin from 15-16 November 2019 and preceded by a Training Day on Thursday 14th November. It will be co-hosted by RTÉ (Raidió Teilifís Éireann) and UCD (University College Dublin) National Folklore Collection.

The very first BISA meeting was held at RTÉ in 2006; and 2019 will be BISA's third conference in the Republic.

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Abstracts of presentations
Registration
Travel and accommodation advice
Thursday 14th November: Training Day
Friday 15th November: BISA conference, Day 1
Saturday 16th November: BISA conference, Day 2

Thursday 14th November: Training Day -

An optional Training Day in UCD and RTÉ, focussing on cultural podcasting and making documentaries. Maximum capacity: 15 persons per session (limit of one attendee per institution). The Training Day is now fully booked, sorry.

10.15 - 1200 at University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4

Jonny Dillon, Archivist, National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin: Creating a Cultural Podcast

The National Folklore Collection UCD introduced its Blúiríní Béaloidis ('Folklore Fragments') podcast in April 2017, and it has since logged over 85,000 plays. Its creator Jonny Dillon will provide an introductory overview of the practical steps required for the creation of the podcast, guiding attendees through the process from initial research, planning, recording and editing, to final distribution, promotion and evaluation. The presentation will draw on archival sound recordings held at the National Folklore Collection.

1430 - 1700 at RTÉ Radio Centre, Donnybrook, Dublin 4

Speakers TBC: Sound Archives and the art of documentaries

RTÉ Radio's prize-winning documentary team talk about the craft behind radio documentaries; how to use the techniques of storytelling and dramaturgy to make the most compelling listening, e.g. where to begin and where to end a story, what stories succeed, etc. Examples of documentaries that pivot around material obtained from sound archives are examined and critiqued. The training concludes with a Q&A session around the theme of how sound archives can be informed by the art of radio documentary making in the promotion of their services.

Note: we aim to congregate after 6pm in The Cobblestone, at the top of Smithfield Square (map on this page), for evening drinks with traditional music. It's a 15-minute walk from the city centre. A Thursday night in Dublin is always busy, so we recommend that you arrive early!

Radio Centre in RTÉ

Friday 15th November: BISA conference, Day 1

The programme of talks and presentations will run from 0900-1700 hours. The venue is the 100-seat Lecture Theatre at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin Castle. The address is: The Chester Beatty Library, The Clock Tower Building, Dublin Castle, Dublin 2, D02 AD92.

Chester Beatty Library https://chesterbeatty.ie

Lunch and refreshments will be provided in the Chester Beatty Library's restaurant, the Silk Road Café: www.silkroadkitchen.ie/phone/silk-road-cafe.html

A provisional programme is below.

09.00 Registration, tea + coffee

09.30 Welcome

10.00 Fionnuala Parfrey (Irish Traditional Music Archive) & Michel Merten (Memnon): Developing a New Strategy for Preservation and Access – A Case Study from the Irish Traditional Music Archive

10.40 Andy Linehan (The British Library): Let’s get digital – acquiring commercial releases for the British Library’s Popular Music collection

11.20 Dr. Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh (University College Dublin): Acetate Disc Recordings in the National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin

12.00 Lunch break

13.30 Dr. Tomás Mac Conmara: Oral Tradition and the Irish War of Independence

14.10 Malachy Moran (RTÉ): The Connemara Community Radio Digital Archive project

14.50 Tea + coffee

15.10 Naomi Harvey (National Library of Scotland): Exploring the impact of access to sound archives on traditional song practice in Scotland

15.50 Donal McAnallen (National Museums NI), Katie Scaife (Bristol Culture), David Baldwin (London Metropolitan Archives): Engaging audiences with sound recordings - case studies from Unlocking Our Sound Heritage

16.30 BISA AGM

17.00 Close

After hours: for Friday evening, we have a reserved some places for 5.30pm in a nice French restaurant close to the Chester Beatty called Chez Max Palace Place (see map of BISA 2019 venues). Other options will be announced during the meeting.

Saturday 16th November: BISA conference, Day 2

Visits to the Irish Traditional Music Archive and the Contemporary Music Centre.

1000 - 1100 The Contemporary Music Centre, Fishamble Street, Dublin 1.

The Contemporary Music Centre (CMC) is Ireland's archive and resource centre for new music, supporting the work of composers throughout the Republic and Northern Ireland. (maximum 50 places)

1130 - 1230 Irish Traditional Music Archive, 73 Merrion Square, Dublin 2

ITMA’s aims are to collect all the materials of Irish traditional music and to make a representative collection of the traditional music of other countries; to preserve these materials indefinitely for present use and for future generations; to organise the information and materials held by the Archive; and to make the materials and information held as widely available as possible to the general public, consistent with the preservation of material and within the limitations of copyright law and Archive resources. (maximum 24 places)

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BISA 2014 AGM Minutes

Jonathan Draper — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 11:34:38 +0000

Minutes of British & Irish Sound Archives (BISA) Annual General Meeting held on 16 May 2014, at Fiontar, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Republic of Ireland

1. To Receive Minutes of Previous Annual General Meeting held on 17 May 2013 at the Manx Museum, Kingswood Grove, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 3LY

The minutes were accepted as a true record. Simon Rooks (SR) duly signed the minutes.

2. Committee Members’ Reports

Convenor - Simon Rooks (SR) thanked Fiontar for hosting this year’s event, BISA’s eleventh, which he described as a good day. SR hoped that it had met Fiontar’s needs. SR explained that Brian Rice (BR) was standing down from the BISA committee after seven years. He thanked BR for all his hard work for BISA. SR explained that as a result of BR stepping down from the committee, that there was now a vacancy and invited volunteers to come forward. Post AGM note: Grace Toland of the Irish Traditional Music Archive volunteered to join the BISA committee. This was unanimously agreed by the committee.

Secretary - Jonathan Draper (JD) explained that prior to the event in Dublin, BISA had 105 members.

Treasurer - Dafydd Pritchard (DP) stated that there was £1,870.00 in BISA’s bank account prior to this year’s annual event. This was a drop of £999.59 compared to the same time in 2013. This was a consequence of high expenses incurred by the location of BISA’s 2013 event on the Isle of Man.

Webmaster - Richard Ranft (RR) encouraged members to add content to BISA website. There was some discussion about adding presentations. BR agreed to liaise with the speakers at this year’s event. It was noted that BISA didn’t include sound recordings of the presentations on the website.

Listowner - Will Prentice (WP) reported that there were 165 members of BISA’s JISCmail discussion list. WP invited delegates and BISA members in general to write e-mails to the discussion list.

3. BISA Directory

SR promoted the directory and encouraged people to add their details. He suggested that the area covered by BISA should be divided into regions, which could then be assigned to BISA’s committee members so they could encourage sound archive repositories in that region to add their details to the directory. There was a discussion prompted by Alistair Bell of the National Library of Scotland about the relationship between BISA members and entries on the directory. SR, JD and others suggested that the two should be synonymous. RR explained that it was possible for those who applied for login details to the directory could automatically acquire membership. JD mentioned that as directory entries would be completed by Full Institutional members of BISA some mechanism would be required for the three others types of membership. There was also some discussion, prompted by DP, about commercial members. He explained IASA’s approach to sponsorship. It was decided to not pursue this at the present time and that the focus should be on holders of publicly accessible sound archive collections.

4. Any Other Items of Business

There were no other items of business.

5. Date and Time of Next BISA Conference

SR explained that there had been one offer of a venue, but invited other offers. No date was set for BISA’s 2015 event. SR mentioned that the BISA committee placed great importance on visiting various parts of the region covered by BISA and noted that each event tended to attract delegates from that area who had not been to a previous BISA event.

The meeting ended at 17:35.

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BISA Conference 2014

webmanager — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:57:08 +0000

Event: British and Irish Sound Archives’ Annual Conference

Venue: Fiontar, DCU, Glasnevin, Dublin 9

Dates: 16 and 17 May 2014

Friday, 16 May 2014

09:30 - Registration and refreshments.

10:20 - Welcome from Simon Rooks, BISA convenor and Dr. Ciarán Mac Murchaidh, Head of School, Fiontar.

10:40 - Continuing to build a digital repository for Ireland. Dr. Natalie Harrower, Manager of Education and Outreach, Digital Repository of Ireland. Followed by Q&A session.

11:20 - The work of the Irish Traditional Music Archive. Grace Toland, Librarian, Irish Traditional Music Archive.Followed by Q&A session.

12:00 - Europeana Creative: Sound Archives and Social Networks. Lizzy Komen, Project Manager R&D, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and Tom Miles, Project Manager, British Library. Followed by Q&A session.

12:40 - Lunch (provided courtesy of Fiontar).

14:00 - Proinsias Ó Conluain : A broadcasting legacy. Ian Lee, producer RTÉ radio and Liam Wylie, RTÉ archives.Followed by Q&A session.

14:40 - Linking Europe's digital sound archives. Richard Ranft, Head of Sound and Vision, British Library.Followed by Q&A session.

15:20 - Refreshments

15:40 - Producing pronunciation guides for Irish toponyms on logainm.ie. Dr. Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Lecturer & Research Project Technical Manager, Fiontar, Dublin City University. Followed by Q&A session.

16.30 - Launch of the new version of the national placenames database, logainm.ie, and of the new Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) Irish-language Web mapping service, MapGenie Éire.

17:15 - AGM

17.45 - Close

Saturday, 17 May 2014

09:30 - Workshop: Publishing and promoting archives on the internet.

11:00 - Close.

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Registration now open for Dublin!

Simon Rooks — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:56:29 +0000

BISA is very pleased to announce online registration is now open for BISA's 2014 Conference in the convivial city of Dublin, May 16-17. Click here to register.

Hosted by Fiontar at Dublin City University, BISA offers a compact day-and-a-half programme of presentations; knowledge exchange; the Saturday workshop session; networking opportunities and, of course, socialising with speakers and delegates from across Britain and Ireland.

Registration fees, payable on the day, remain modest at €30/£25 for Members and €36/£30 for Non-Members.

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BISA Training Day 2007 November

webmanager — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 23:06:37 +0000

On Friday 30th November 2007 the 3rd BISA Training Day was hosted by the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum (UFTM) at their headquarters in Cultra, Co. Dow>. The theme of the day’s presentations was documentation in sound archives, with papers delivered by the National Library of Scotland and the BBC, as well as an extra paper from the National Council on Archives on the subject of applying for external fund-raising.

Minutes of AGM

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