Will Prentice: Surveying Sound Document Collections Within Individual Institutions and Across the UK
Channel: KISK
Date: 2023-04-06

Blok expertů: 30. 3. 2023

This lecture will offer a practical guide to surveying collections of audio documents. It will focus on two contexts: first, surveying an individual audio collection, including planning and strategy; second, creating a survey of multiple collections, on a regional or national level. It will include concrete examples based on real surveys, and suggest tools and further reading.

​Will Prentice is an audio preservation and digitisation specialist at the Phonogrammarchiv, part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. He serves as a Trustee of the EMI Archive Trust, and is a member of the Technical and the Training & Education Committees of the International Association for Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). Between 2006-2010 he was Convenor of British & Irish Sound Archives (BISA), and for twenty three years worked for the British Library Sound Archive. He has a Masters Degree in Ethnomusicology from Goldsmiths College, University of London.