From arscceseries at gmail.com.invalid Wed Jul 27 15:34:03 2022 From: arscceseries at gmail.com.invalid (ARSC Continuing Education Series) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 15:34:03 -0700 Subject: [78-L] REMINDER: ARSC Webinar (7/28) on LoC's Sound Submissions Project Message-ID: Hi everyone, *Tomorrow, July 28th,* the Association for Recorded Sound Collections 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 (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 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 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