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Daniel Featherstone, IRCA
NATIONAL REMOTE ABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER AUDIOVISUAL COLLECTIONS PLAN 2014-2016
IRCA represents and resources the remote Indigenous media and communications sector to be a powerful and connected voice for remote Indigenous Australia
About IRCA
Supports 8 RIMOs and over 150 RIBS communities,
plus other remote media producers
Keeping our stories alive
Why a Strategy is needed
Why the Strategy is needed
Key Issues
Ageing analog
collections
No funding
for archiving
Poor storage
conditions
Limited community access
Lack of meta-data
No backups/ loss of records Deceased
and sensitive content
Cultural protocols needed
No archiving
equipment
Where to start?
Partnerships
• ICTV• Indigitube•Ara Irititja/Community Stories
•AIATSIS•NFSA•National Library of Australia
•State Libraries and Archives
•Melbourne University
•Ara Irititja•Batchelor Indigenous Languages
•CDU - LAAL•Community Stories/ NT Libraries
•Strehlow Research Centre
•RIMOs •Art centres•Cultural centres•Land Councils•Ranger & youth programs
•Shires•Schools Community
collections
Specialist remote
Indigenous archives
Remote Indigenous
media “distributor
s”
National/ State
collecting & resource agencies
Key Elements of the Strategy
Strategy
Elements
Cultural managem
ent
Digitisation
Preservation
Storage/ Safeguardi
ng
Standards: Meta-data/
formats
Employment/
TrainingRepatriatio
n
Access
Networking
Funding
Strategy Principles
Culture
Conservation
Connection
• Respect and advocacy for ICIP• Cultural management & protocols• Knowledge transfer to future
generations
• Community managed collections• Sustainability through local capacity
& skills• Preserve records for social and
cultural heritage • Recognise significance of
community collections• Recognise value of languages and
culture• Local, regional, national
partnerships• Access guided by community needs
Archiving Skills Workshops Skills workshop held in Canberra November 2014 Upcoming 5-day workshops in Darwin (5-9 May), Alice Springs (11-15 May),
Broome (6-10July) – limited places available Covers: Digitising stills, video, audio; Cataloguing & meta-data; Preservation,
storage, backup.
THANK YOU AND QUESTIONS