Indigitization: Supporting the Digital Preservation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage Where It Lives

Speaker:  Gerald Lawson, University of British Columbia

The Indigitization Program has helped Indigenous community organizations in British Columbia, Canada, to digitize more than 12,000 cassette tapes containing precious fragments of cultural heritage. With the program poised to expand into support for several other media formats, including magnetic video recordings, Gerry Lawson reflects on Indigitization’s grassroots origins, strategic growth and approach to partnerships.

This session is part of the “Stewardship of Indigenous Materials in AV Archives” program stream at AMIA 2019.  This program stream, in collaboration with the Association of Tribal Archives Libraries and Museums offers collaborative methods, technologies, tools, and workflows to ethically preserve and provide access to indigenous audiovisual heritage materials. The programming is funded by a contract with the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), with funds provided by the National Film Preservation Board.

November 16, 2019 | Baltimore, MD