"How to Take Care of Community AV Collections: Digitization, Preservation, Copyright” June-September, 2023

For decades, grassroots media creators in Philly have experimented with video to tell stories about the city, its people, and our struggles. However, many of these important stories were recorded in formats that deteriorate with time and have not received the necessary preservation treatment. This hands-on series of workshops will guide you through the essential elements of taking care of your audiovisual materials over the long term. Together, we will design effective preservation strategies to suit your needs and tackle the ins-and-outs  of digitization, metadata, copyright, and fair use. 

Workshop dates between June - September, 2023. See full descriptions of all workshops and register at peoplesmediarecord.com/2023-workshop-series

Hosted in collaboration with the People’s Media Record and PhillyCAM. All workshops are free of charge. 

Digitize It! Part 2: A Workshop for Digitizing Your AV Materials

This hands-on session will guide participants through the steps of digitizing and migrating audiovisual materials from their collections. With the assistance of an expert in audiovisual digitization, you will have the opportunity to test out the lessons about digitization and migration from the previous workshop as you transform some of your materials into digital items. Throughout this day-long workshop you will use affordable and open source solutions to create digital files from various tape-based and optical media formats, including materials from your own personal collection. These files will then be analyzed and prepared for long-term preservation. 

Instructor bio: Morgan Morel is an media preservationist who specializes in preserving tape-based audiovisual media. He has worked in various preservation labs, from small boutique labs to large mass-digitization facilities. While working as the Preservation Director for BAVC Media, Morgan developed a training program focused on teaching archivists and librarians the fundamentals of analog video preservation. Morgan has been involved in the development and documentation of various open source preservation tools, including QCTools, the AV Artifact Atlas, and DVRescue. He is passionate about preserving the cultural heritage and memory of marginalized and under-represented communities, and believes that educating and training archivists, folklorists, and activists will be critical in saving these records from being lost to deterioration and obsolescence.