Symposium: New Paradigms for Accessing and Curating Audiovisual Collections

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In the context of digital transformation, accessibility and curation of datafied content require rethinking to unlock meaningfully the complexity and large volume of audiovisual collections. Scoping out an upgrade for accessing audiovisual archives can be facilitated via innovative curatorial access and informatics models that can activate new modes of engagement, interaction, and meaning-making. While pushing the boundaries for accessibility, the new interfaces, experiences, and curatorial models also raise technological and conceptual questions about every corner of the archival practice, especially on the preservation end, in the age of data. 

Addressing these challenges, this symposium, as a part of the Swiss National Science Foundation Sinergia Project: Narratives from the long tail, is stimulated by a growing need for access models for audiovisual collections beyond traditional strategies and the need to reconceptualize curatorial and presentational frameworks and models. It aims to explore the intersection of cutting-edge computational methods and audiovisual archiving through three themed sessions, each designed to cover a specific and unique angle:

1. A Blurry Boundary: From Archive to Data
   • Examining the transformation of audiovisual archives content into data entities, exploring challenges and opportunities in rethinking preservation and archiving with the diverse choices of technologies available
2. A New Way of Seeing: Analytics and Curation
   • With the various data out of archival content, experimenting and critically reflecting on the impact of computational methods and analytics in the accessibilities of archives, such as curation, exploration, copyright, and public engagement 
3. In Progress and Practice: An Institutional Zoom-in
   • Switch the focus to institutions in Switzerland and more, addressing technological and conceptual challenges surrounding audiovisual preservation, management, and application in practice