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Conference Presentation
MEAP Team presents at Digital Library Federation Forum, Lansing, MI
MEAP Program Manager, Elizabeth Lhost, and former MEAP Student Assistant, Alyssa Davis, will be presenting at the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum on Wednesday, July 31. If you will be at the Forum in Lansing, join Elizabeth and Alyssa in the Digital Scholarship Lab at 2:15 pm (Eastern Time) for their paper, “Developing digital infrastructure to meet local needs on a global scale: Lessons from the Digital Library and Modern Endangered Archives Programs at the UCLA Library.” The presentation details infrastructure and documentation efforts to ensure both findability in the UCLA Digital Library and robust descriptive metadata that represent global collections.
Community Engagement
Cine Casero launches second MEAP grant project with community meeting
MEAP grantees at Cine Casero in Uruguay called their First Meeting of Superochista filmmakers, inviting amateur and independent film makers from the 1970s and 80s to participate in a community conversation. The event was a kick off to the Superochistas project, allowing the filmmakers to get to know each other and to learn about the dynamics and objectives of the project. Project lead, Felipe Bellocq says, “It was a highly successful and very emotional day, we really felt that a feeling of community and appreciation towards the project was generated. Everyone was very open, grateful and involved with the proposal.”
Cine Casero completed a Planning Grant with MEAP funding in cohort 1, documenting El gran film del Uruguay from the Coleccion Carlos Alonso. Explore the survey and collection report here.
Expanding Access
The Center for Urban History in Kyiv, Ukraine opens call to preserve amateur film and home movies
As part of their MEAP funded “Safeguarding Ukrainian Heritage of Amateur Films and Home Movies project(opens in a new tab),” the Center for Urban History in Lviv, Ukraine has launched a call for participation. In addition to digitizing films from the Lviv Regional Cultural and Recreational Center of the Ukrainian Society of the Deaf, the project team will also digitize home movies submitted to the Center through an open call process. The Call for Participation is now live, inviting owners of family film archives, institutions, communities, and museums from all over Ukraine to receive free digitization in 8mm and 16mm formats.
Training Workshop
The Center for Art & Archaeology of the American Institute of Indian Studies hosts digital workshop
As part of their MEAP funded project, Digital Preservation and Access to Rare Negatives and Slides, the Center for Art & Archaeology (CA&A) of the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) hosted a two-day virtual workshop titled Photo and Negative Digitization & Dissemination. The workshop brought together 20 representatives from cultural institutions from across India as well as participants from Sri Lanka, Nepal, and the United States. The group explored a range of topics to support digitization across institutions, including sessions on digitization procedures, equipment, metadata and image standards, and data processing. Learn more >