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).
