Virtual DCHDC Meetup: Digital Audio Preservation: Approaches to Access

This month's meeting has been organized around the theme of "Digital Audio Preservation: Approaches to Access"

We will be discussing fair use and other creative strategies for refining public curation to recently preserved archival audio, keeping preserved audio out of dark archives, online access initiatives as part of grant writing, and advocacy and fostering community/institutional partnerships.

Guests include:

David Seubert: Curator of UC Santa Barbara’s Performing Arts Collection. David is the Director of the American Discography Project and the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive.

Allison McClanahan: Collections and Cataloging Librarian at Indiana University's Archive of Traditional Music (ATM). Allison serves as co-chair of ARSC Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee, and is a member of the Music Library Associations’ Cataloging and Metadata Committee’s Vocabularies Subcommittee.

Yuri Shimoda: Archivist at the UCLA Ethnomusicology archive and professor in their ethnomusicology department. She serves on the executive board at IASA, ARSC, and The Radio Preservation Task Force (RPTF)

Miles Levy: Audiovisual archivist at Smithsonian Channel. He serves on the board ofThe Radio Preservation Task Force (RPTF) and is co-founder of the archival audio advocacy workshop, Basement Tapes Day.

Digital Cultural Heritage DC is a monthly meetup group for people interested in collecting, preserving and making available digital cultural heritage information. Our meetings begin with a few short lightning talks followed by social information exchange. This is a great networking opportunity for students, as well as anyone interested in learning about digital collections in archives, museums, libraries or anywhere else. We're interested in digital content of all kinds, including film/video, still images, text, datasets, video games and pretty much anything of value in digital form. We are an open and friendly group, and welcome all comers.

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