[cma-l] Future Thinking: The AHRC Connected Communities Media Collection, Archiving the Audio-Visual and Beyond

[Tamar Millen]

_Future Thinking: The AHRC Connected Communities Collection, Archiving 
the Audio-Visual and Beyond_

*29 October 2014*

University of Salford, MediaCityUK, Salford Quays


A day of thinking about and exploring archives and their use and 
development, in relation to the Connected Communities Media 
Collection....  The focus of the day is this archive built to host (and 
make accessible) audio-visual media outputs from more than 300 projects 
funded in the AHRC Connected Communities programme.


Today we will hear about a range of current audio-visual archiving 
practices, future digital possibilities, and have the opportunity to 
explore the working prototype of the Connected Communities Media 
Collection, before deciding on some possibilities for the archive as it 
goes forward.... Brought to you by Ann Light, Northumbria University and 
Tamar Millen, Community Media Association, with AHRC CC Leadership 
Fellow, George McKay.


This event is FREE, but registration is essential. First come, first 
served. To book a place or find out more contact us on 
connectedcommunities at commedia.org.uk.


The day will be of interest to scholars and workers in media studies, 
radio, music, community media, archives, digital, heritage, Connected 
Communities.... Come to MediaCityUK for the day, find out more, tell us 
about your practice and interest....


The programme is below, and further information also available at: 
http://connected-communities.org/index.php/future-thinking-the-ahrc-connected-communities-media-collection-archiving-the-audio-visual-and-beyond-29-october-mediacityuk/ 




9.30-10.00             Arrival and coffee

10.00                     Welcome and introduction

10.10-12.10            Session 1. Archiving the audio-visual, archiving 
community: some current practices

·      Paul Wilson, Radio Curator, The British Library: 'The Future 
Radio Archive?'

·      Caroline Mitchell, University of Sunderland: 'Fem FM Archive: 
working with Bristol City Archives to establish an archive of Britain's 
first women's radio station'

·      Kathy Cremin, Director of Cooperation, Bede's World Museum 
(including Hive Radio, the first radio station in and from a museum): 
'Community, Media and Place'

·      Jez Collins, Birmingham City University/Birmingham Music Archive: 
'"A pile of my history, found in my parents' attic": sustaining popular 
music's material cultures'



12.10-12.30            Coffee



12.30-1.30            Session 2. Exploring the new Connected Communities 
audio-visual online archive

This AHRC Connected Communities project brought together media, academic 
and community partners to develop and test a means of storing the many 
audio-visual media outputs of the CC programme as a whole. Ann Light 
worked with Tamar Millen and colleagues at the Community Media 
Association to produce a working prototype of the archive, at 
http://ccmc.commedia.org.uk/. In this session they will introduce it and 
invite us to explore it using maps and themes.

1.30-2.15          Lunch

2.15-3.15            Session 3. 20 ways to use a media archive

This session is a chance to think up innovative ways of using the 
archive and develop a plan for its future in research and in play. How 
are media developing? And what role might the archive take? We look at 
ways to bring the learning caught in these materials closer to the 
people who might use and develop them. We start the afternoon with a 
glimpse into the practice of mashing up archives, before devising our 
own scenarios to make the materials accessible and valuable over time 
and the sum equal more than the parts.

·      Prof Chris Speed, Chair in Design Informatics, Edinburgh College 
of Art/University of Edinburgh

3.15-4.00           Round table discussion

Action planning:

·      What next? Where can we take an archive of this nature? Do we 
want to incorporate it in upcoming projects or find it a research angle 
of its own? How do we get maximum value out of aggregating all the 
outputs from 300+ research projects involving media and communities?

-- 
Tamar Millen
Arts Coordinator
Community Media Association
15 Paternoster Row
Sheffield
S1 2BX
0114 2795219

www.arts.commedia.org.uk


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