British and Irish Sound Archives - 2016

BISA 2016 AGM Minutes

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Minutes of British & Irish Sound Archives (BISA) Annual General Meeting held on 18 November 2016 at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
1. To receive the minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting held on 5 June 2015 at the Council Chamber, BBC Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, W1A 1AA
The minutes were accepted as a true record. Jonathan Draper (JD) duly signed the minutes.

2. Committee members’ reports
Convenor: Position vacant
Secretary: Jonathan Draper (JD) explained that prior to this year’s event, BISA had 108 members.
Treasurer: JD stated that the balance in BISA’s account is £2,779.52.
Webmaster: Richard Ranft (RR) encouraged everyone to use and populate the directory of sound resources.
Listowner: Will Prentice (WP) reported that membership of BISA’s JISCmail discussion list remains the same at 158 members.

3. Future of BISA to include membership, committee elections and scope
It was unanimously agreed that BISA should continue, that BISA should stop inviting membership because there was no longer anything offered in return; and that BISA’s focus should be on maintaining the website, maintaining the JISCmail discussion list and planning and delivering the annual training and network event and that the committee should effectively become an organising committee for the next event.

Following Simon Rooks’ resignation as Convenor, no nominations for that post were made.
It was agreed that Alison Smith of The National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales should become treasurer (nominated by JD and seconded by WP).

4. Next BISA conference
An offer of a venue for an event in November had already been received from the National Library of Scotland and the School of Scottish Studies. It was agreed to accept the invitation.

5. Any Other Items of Business
No items of other business.

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BISA Conference 2016

webmanager — Thu, 04 May 2017 21:42:37 +0000

The 2016 British and Irish Sound Archives event will be on Friday, 18th November and Saturday, 19th November 2016 at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum at Cultra, Northern Ireland.

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The programme and advice on travel and hotels are given below.

Registration
Abstracts of presentations

Friday, 18th November: all day

09.30 Registration, tea + coffee

10.15 Welcome

10.30 Peter Curson & Clifford Harkness (Ulster Folk and Transport Museum): audio highlights in Ulster Folk and Transport Museum

11.00 Paul Loughran and Ciaran Murray (Near Media Co-op): the Near Archive, the first digital audio archive of community radio content in Ireland.

11.30 Piaras Hoban, ITMA Digital Projects Officer: Preserving Playability: using audiovisual resources to enhance access to the Irish Traditional Music Archive's (ITMA) printed & manuscript music collections.

12.10 Peter Curson & Clifford Harkness (Ulster Folk and Transport Museum): BBCNI's partnership with the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum

12.50 Lunch

13.45 Christian Poske (British Library and School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London): The Bake Collection of the British Library Sound Archive: Global Perspectives on Historical Sound Recordings from South Asia

14.25 Martin Astell (Senior Archivist, Sound and Video, Essex Record Office): ‘You Are Hear’ – an HLF-funded project to preserve and provide access (in some interesting ways) to archive sound recordings

15.05 Tea

15.25 Will Prentice (The British Library): Surveying the UK’s audio landscape

16.05 BISA AGM

17.00 Close

Saturday, 19th November: morning only (provisional programme)

To be be held in the silent cinema exhibit building.

09.30 Tea + coffee

09.45 Workshop: Packaging audio files and metadata for preservation and access (Will Prentice, British Library)

10.45 Round table discussion: Succession planning and transfer of sound archiving skills

11.45 Presentation or tour about the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum audio archives

12.30 Close

Delegates may like to follow the morning's session with a visit to the open air museum http://nmni.com/uftm/Visiting-Information/Museum-Maps

Registration

Please complete the online registration form.

Registration fees are payable on the day:

Standard: £40/€45
Students/Unwaged: £15/€20 (proof of status required).

Accommodation

Premier Inn Belfast Titanic Quarter

2A Queens Road, Belfast, BT3 9DT

http://www.premierinn.com/gb/en/hotels/northern-ireland/antrim/belfast/belfast-titanic-quarter.html?cid=GLBC_BELTIT

This hotel is close to the Belfast to Bangor Railway line Titanic Quarter Station.

Holiday Inn Express - Queen's Quarter

106 University St, Belfast BT7 1HP

https://www.ihg.com/holidayinnexpress/hotels/gb/en/belfast/bfsex/hoteldetail?cm_mmc=GoogleMaps-_-EX-_-GBR-_-BFSEX

The closest train station would be at Botanic.

Travel information

How to get to Belfast: http://visitbelfast.com/home/page/getting-here

You’ll find the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum on the main Belfast to Bangor Road (A2), near Holywood. We’re about 7 miles, or 15 minutes, east of Belfast City Centre, and there’s easy access by road, rail and bus. George Best Belfast City Airport is also nearby. More details:

http://nmni.com/uftm/Visiting-Information/Getting-here

For those arriving by train, there is a halt at ‘Cultra’, after exiting the train turn right and follow the path that brings you out in the museum grounds. However, there is still a fifteen minute walk from the station on the Transport side of the site, uphill to the Manor building on the Folk side where the event is being held. Our security staff will be happy to provide directions at the gate (pictured). The event is being held in the manor building.

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BISA 2016: Registration now open

webmanager — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 16:23:43 +0000

Dear all

British and Irish Sound Archives (BISA) is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2016 conference, on 18-19 November at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, Cultra, Northern Ireland.

Details of the programme, how to register plus travel & accommodation information can be found here: http://www.bisa-web.org/next-event

British & Irish Sound Archives (BISA) was formed in 2006 as a forum to celebrate and share knowledge on the care and promotion of sound collections throughout the British Isles. The BISA annual conference is a great opportunity for anyone passionate about sound heritage to share knowledge, enthusiasm, special interests and experience.

Hope to see you there!

Will Prentice

#bisa2016

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British & Irish Sound Archives conference 2016 - abstracts

webmanager — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 16:36:05 +0000

British & Irish Sound Archives conference 2016, Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, Cultra, Northern Ireland, 18-19 November

ABSTRACTS:

The Near Archive, the first digital audio archive of community radio content in Ireland.
Paul Loughran (Near Media Co-op)

Overview
In October 2014 Near FM was awarded funding by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland to build a dedicated digital archive for a discreet collection of content. The material is taken from our flagship radio programme Northside Today between the years 2011 and 2016. The content is unique to Near FM and the surrounding locality and encompasses themes including local/social history/folklore, arts/culture, sport, community events and current affairs. The archiving consultation on the project has been undertaken with the Digital Repository of Ireland.

Integrated Approach
Our integrated approach includes awareness-raising in partnership with Dublin City Libraries with demonstrations/workshops for the general public. We have presented the Near Archive at the Dublin City Libraries assembly on Sept 1st, and we are due to demonstrate the archive to local libraries in Oct 2016.
On November 21st the Near Archive will be presented as part of the explore your Archives week, being hosted by Dublin City Library & Archive. (http://www.exploreyourarchive.org/)

Access
Access and content is free to all. Content can be streamed or downloaded and works on a creative commons licence and cannot be used for profit making purposes. The archive will be used, initially, by Near FM internal users (producers, volunteers accessing archival content for programming) but we encourage the use of our archive among the general public, library users, students, academics, researchers, community activists and not for profit media practitioners.

Broadening the reach of the Broadcast Sector
All of the programme material in the archive was produced in the Irish state and first broadcast on community radio. Through working with Dublin City Library & Archive and the Digital Repository of Ireland, Near FM can offer these organisations and the general public access to archived community radio content, which will in turn compliment research and knowledge in relation to Irish archives. This will be a new venture for all involved and will lead to shared experience and knowledge in relation to archiving of audio material.

Living Archive
We see the Near Archive as a living archive and we plan to grow it into the future with some of the many and varied programming produced in Near FM. The Near Archive will be officially launched in November 2016. www.near.ie/archive

Partners and funders
Craol (Community Radio Ireland) - www.craol.ie
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland - www.bai.ie
Digital Repository of Ireland - www.dri.ie
Dublin City Library & Archive - www.dublincity.ie

Preserving Playability: using audiovisual resources to enhance access to the Irish Traditional Music Archive's (ITMA) printed & manuscript music collections.
Piaras Hoban, ITMA Digital Projects Officer

Multimedia integration now offers the potential to explore new platforms of user access. This presentation introduces ITMA's approach to making historical printed & manuscript sources accessible online. In particular it focuses on the incorporation of sound and video resources to enrich user listening & learning experiences.

The Bake Collection of the British Library Sound Archive: Global Perspectives on Historical Sound Recordings from South Asia
Christian Poske, AHRC Ph.D. Student, British Library and School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Arnold Adriaan Bake (1899-1963) extensively documented the folk music and dance traditions of South Asia through audio recordings, silent film recordings, still photographs and transparencies that he made during nearly twenty years of fieldwork between 1925 and 1956. In 1948, Bake became lecturer in Sanskrit and Indian music at the School of Oriental and African Studies, where he supported his lectures with film and music presentations based on his fieldwork. The extant audiovisual material related to his fieldwork is now stored in four institutions in three countries, namely the Berliner Phonogrammarchiv, the British Library Sound Archive, the School of Oriental and African Studies and Leiden University. Since the 1980s, ethnomusicologists have been able to correlate a substantial amount of this material and utilised it for diachronic restudies that evaluate continuity and change in South Asian performing arts. In the course of these restudies, repatriations to South Asian sound archives have been carried out, and the relevance of Bake’s archival material to Indian diasporas has been explored. This paper discusses the issues involved in these processes, which include the ethical implications of working with archival material collected in colonial times and the development of South Asian copyright legislations, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of physical repatriations and an online dissemination of archival material. Through this, the paper throws light on the interrelations between performers in countries of origin and European and Indian academicians, and on the agendas of academic institutions and sound archives.

Keywords: South Asia, music, dance, performing arts, archiving, repatriation

‘You Are Hear’ – an HLF-funded project to preserve and provide access (in some interesting ways) to archive sound recordings
Martin Astell, Senior Archivist (Sound and Video), Essex Record Office

The Essex Record Office project ‘You Are Hear: sound and a sense of place’ is currently in the second year of its three-year delivery phase. The project aims to digitise and catalogue heritage recordings from the Essex Sound and Video Archive, and then share them to encourage people to develop their sense of place.

This paper would offer the opportunity to examine some of the practicalities of getting the project off the ground and the outputs of the project as they are being delivered.

I would expect to cover the following subjects:

Applying for funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund
The development phase: getting ready to deliver the project
Copyright and permissions
In-house digitisation
Providing online access to recordings
Public engagement events
Sonic listening benches
Interactive audio-visual kiosks
The Essex Sounds website

By demonstrating some of the ways we have sought to take the recordings out into the community, providing easy access to them, and helping people engage with them, I would hope to give attendees some inspiring ideas for how they might open up their own collections.

And in discussing some of the issues encountered, I would aim to help people avoid potential difficulties and offer practical solutions.

Surveying the UK’s audio landscape
Will Prentice (The British Library)

The British Library has recently conducted two in-depth surveys of sound collecting and preservation practice across the UK. This paper will present an overview of the results, and discuss ways in which the British Library aims to use them.

Saturday workshop: Packaging audio files and metadata for preservation and access
Will Prentice (The British Library)

This informal workshop will explore ways in which file-based audio can be packaged and preserved for the long term, ensuring authentication of the content and optimising public access. While based on methods developed by the British Library, it is intended as a discussion where others can share their own thoughts and experiences.

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Next annual meeting 18-19 November 2016, N Ireland

webmanager — Fri, 20 May 2016 16:37:39 +0000

British and Irish Sound Archives are pleased to announce that its annual event will take place on Friday, 18 November and Saturday, 19 November 2016 at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum at Cultra, Northern Ireland.

Further details, including a call for papers will be issued soon.

Jonathan Draper
On behalf of the BISA committee

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