[78-L] ARSC Webinar (7/28) on LoC's Sound Submissions

[ARSC Continuing Education Series]

Hi everyone,

*Next Thursday, July 28th,* the  Association for Recorded Sound Collections
<http://www.arsc-audio.org/index.php> invites you to join us for the next
installment in our Continuing Professional Education series of webinars, a
discussion of the collaborative collecting practices and broader goals of
the Library of Congress Radio Preservation Task Force's Sound Submissions
Project. As always, this program is free and open to the public.

*ARSC Continuing Education Webinar Series Presents:*

*Collectors' Knowledge*: The Sound Submissions Project of the Radio
Preservation Task Force

*July 28, 2022 3:30pm EST / 12:30pm PST*


To register, click here: https://bit.ly/3IKltrB


The Radio Preservation Task Force <https://radiopreservation.org/> (RPTF)
of the Library of Congress is a consortium of scholars, archivists, and
educators created through the Library’s National Recording Preservation
Plan. Its mission is to encourage and expand academic study on the cultural
history of radio through facilitated preservation partnerships, engaged
collections advocacy, conferences, public inventories, pedagogical guides
to boost collection discoverability, as well as identify and save
endangered collections.


Sound Submissions
<https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-recording-preservation-plan/about-this-program/radio-preservation-task-force/current-projects/sound-submissions/>
is a new digital initiative which sits at the heart of the RPTF's expansive
mission. It was developed as a result of focused research which revealed a
problem, that there is an impediment to public knowledge and use of diverse
endangered radio collections. Many such collections are held by private
collectors, who are traditionally reticent to donate physical recordings or
share digital copies due to lack of a neutral repository, as well as a fear
of devaluing materials they have painstakingly acquired. Sound Submissions
was conceived to improve preservation and discoverability of materials held
by collectors by providing solutions to these challenges, while also
expanding and diversifying the range of cultural and political
representation in national collections. Collection holders will retain
original physical media and digital recordings, while digital copies will
be ingested and maintained by the Library’s National Audio-Visual
Conservation Center (NAVCC). Library users can listen to recordings onsite
at the NAVCC’s Recorded Sound Research Center in Washington, DC. After the
project's team identifies and acquires these collections, the project will
pivot into a more focused digital humanities mode of practice to encourage
discovery and use of the collections.


Sound Submissions has already identified and is actively acquiring its
first three pilot collections in 2022. In this webinar, Sound Submissions
Research Director Stephanie Sapienza will talk through the various
challenges of approaching such an ambitious 'post-custodial' archival
project, highlight the initial pilot collections, and offer a road map
towards a not too distant future when everyone can access these crucial
pieces of our national audio heritage.



Stephanie Sapienza <https://stephaniesapienza.com/> is the Digital
Humanities Archivist at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the
Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland. Her research revolves
around using digital humanities methods alongside archival standards to
reframe and contextualize historic media collections through the lens of
their original production, reception, and networked distribution. She has
been the Principal Investigator on two subsequent NEH-sponsored grant
projects about the history of educational and public radio, Unlocking the
Airwaves and Broadcasting Audiovisual Data. The former project is a virtual
reunification project reuniting two geographically 'split' collections; the
latter connects four separate radio collections using linked data
infrastructures and workflows. She is also an affiliate faculty member of
UMD's Cinema and Media Studies (CMS) department, where she teaches a course
on digital storytelling using archives. Formerly, she was the Project
Manager for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting at the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting, where she managed strategic operational planning
for metadata and digitization initiatives.



We look forward to seeing you there!

-- 
Yuri Shimoda
Dan Hockstein