Tutorials and Workshops offered by IASA

The following is a summary of the IASA Tutorials and Workshops usually offered during IASA conferences or at special seminars. The duration of these lessons is about 1.5 hours to half a day.

Title Content Target group Required knowledge Trainer(s)
Archiving (general)
Audiovisual Archiving
IASA-TC 03, TC 04, TC 05, TC 06
An overview of the entire field of av-archiving For all Depending on character of course Dietrich Schüller and specialists for audio, video, and film
The Safeguarding of the Audiovisual Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy
IASA-TC 03
  For all None Dietrich Schüller and/or Pio Pellizzari, both members of T&E
Handling and Storage of Audio and Video Carriers
IASA-TC 05
  For all None Dietrich Schüller and/or Pio Pellizzari, both member of T&E
Collection Management   Archivists, Managers Knowledge of workflows, archiving responsibilities Pio Pellizzari, member of T&E
Disaster preparedness   Archivists, Managers Archiving responsibilities Albrecht Häfner, Pio Pellizzari, members of T&E
Archiving (digital
Byte-by-byte file format composition: Methodologies for digital conservation   Archivists, Librarians, Technicians, Managers Working knowledge of computers Bertram Lyons, Senior Consultant, AVPreserve
Files, metadata, and workflows: Putting the pieces together For archivists working in contemporary collecting institutions, basic digital skills are essential. As technology makes it easier to create audio, and video files and archivists continue digitizing analogue collections, the impact of digital content on our work only increases. For archives, there is a heightened risk of loss or inability to access this content if regular skills for ingest, management, and preservation are not acquired as part of the archivist’s toolkit. Archivists, Librarians, Technicians, Managers Working knowledge of computers Bertram Lyons, Senior Consultant, AVPreserve
Digital curation & preservation tools: Validation, automation, transfer   Archivists, Librarians, Technicians, Managers Working knowledge of computers Bertram Lyons, Senior Consultant, AVPreserve
Documentation / Cataloguing
Empowering your AV archives system without disrupting current good practices   Archivists, Librarians, Technicians, Managers Working knowledge of the archiving responsibilities Guy Maréchal, Vice-chair of the IASA-OK Committee; Co-founder of the TITAN Non Profit Association
Introduction to the Semantic Technologies and their application to OAIS   Archivists, Librarians, Managers Working knowledge of the archiving responsibilities Guy Maréchal Vice-chair of the IASA-OK Committee / Member of the IASA T&E Committee
Implications and applications of the semantic web for cataloging models and standards   Documentarists, catalogers At least basic knowledge of metadata models in archival institutions, interest in the semantic web Nadia Lai, Responsible for documentation and training at the Swiss National Sound Archives
Introduction to the Conceptual Modelling (From FRBR to AXIS-CSRM)   Archivists, Librarians, Managers Working knowledge of the archiving responsibilities Guy Maréchal Vice-chair of the IASA-OK Committee / Member of the IASA T&E Committee
Special collections: Treatment and workflow   Documentarists, catalogers, archivists No specific knowledge required. Interest in archival science and its application in sound archives Nadia Lai, Responsible for documentation and training at the Swiss National Sound Archives
Empowering the UNESCO-MoW Documentary Heritage   Archivists, Librarians, Managers Working knowledge of the archiving responsibilities Guy Maréchal, Vice-chair of the IASA-OK Committee, Co-founder of the TITAN Non Profit Association
Audio engineering / Technique
Digital audio restoration   Audio engineers Must have good audio engineering skills, as well as at least two years hands-on experience Nadja Wallaszkovits, IASA acknowledged instructor
Sound workshop for technicians Focuses on a number of key aspects to think about and to take care of when digitizing analogue sound recordings. It walks through some general digitization principles, handling issues, and most importantly how to get the best signal off the original recording Audio preservation engineers Must have good audio engineering skills, as well as at least two years hands-on experience Nadja Wallaszkovits and Stefano S. Cavaglieri, both IASA acknowledged instructors
Expert transfer techniques: A special focus on mechanical Discs   Audio Engineers Must have good audio engineering skills, as well as at least two years hands-on experience Stefano Cavaglieri, IASA acknowledged instructor
Assessing Storage Environment for Mixed Media Collections   Archivists, management Better if the attendees have some experience with mixed media Stefano Cavaglieri, IASA acknowledged instructor
Audio Loudness for Audiovisual Archives   Audio preservation engineers Must have good audio engineering skills, as well as some IT skills and hands-on experience Stefano Cavaglieri, IASA acknowledged instructor
Expert Transfer Techniques: A special focus on mechanical discs   Audio preservation engineers Should have good audio engineering skills, as well some hands-on experience Stefano Cavaglieri, IASA acknowledged instructor
Expert Disc Transfer Techniques : Emphasis 101   Audio preservation engineers Should have good audio engineering skills, as well some IT skills and hands-on experience Stefano Cavaglieri, IASA acknowledged instructor
Special themes
Management of mixed collections:
Split a collection – access it remotely
  Archivists, Librarians, Managers Knowledge of workflows, archiving responsibilities Pio Pellizzari, member of T&E
Application of the OAIS-model in an AV-Archive   Archivists, Managers Knowledge of workflows, archiving responsibilities Pio Pellizzari, member of T&E
Selection / Selection in the Digital Age?   Archivists, Librarians, Managers Acquisition and archiving responsibilities Pio Pellizzari, member of T&E

IASA also offers also a training course lasting some weeks:
Train the trainers programme (at the moment only for technical staff):
This programme aims to train future trainers and to prepare them, so that they will be able to offer independently further education in their own country and in their own language. For this purpose, they work for a certain time in archives recognized by IASA and finish their training with a practical workshop).