Abstract
Audio and audiovisual archives are at the crossroads of different fields of knowledge, yet they require common solutions for both their long-term preservation and their description, availability, use and reuse. Archivio Vi.Vo. is an Italian project financed by the Region of Tuscany, aiming to: (i) explore methods for long-term preservation and secure access to oral sources, and (ii) develop an infrastructure under the CLARIN-IT umbrella offering several services for scholars from different domains interested in oral sources. This paper describes the project’s infrastructure and its methodology through a case study on Caterina Bueno’s audio archive.
Highlights
Audio and audiovisual archives1 are scattered all over the Italian peninsula, from researchers’ private houses to universities and research centres, from cultural institutions (e.g., Istituti per la Resistenza) to State institutions, such as State Archives and Libraries
This paper presents how the Archivio Vi.Vo. project tackles these problems, illustrating the overall methodology adopted and infrastructure that is being developed
In order to reach the above-mentioned ambitious objectives, Archivio Vi.Vo. has concentrated most of its efforts on the design and development of an architecture, hosted by CLARIN-IT, the Italian consortium of the CLARIN research infrastructure, which could be used by several other projects concerning audio archives
Summary
Audio and audiovisual archives are scattered all over the Italian peninsula, from researchers’ private houses to universities and research centres, from cultural institutions (e.g., Istituti per la Resistenza) to State institutions, such as State Archives and Libraries. The pilot survey made by Galataand Calamai in 2018 has emphasised the status of precariousness, instability, and insecurity that affects audio and audiovisual archives available at different communities of Italian researchers. Co-incidentally, not all the research projects dealing with audio archives receive financing for all the different professional profiles involved in their preservation, managing and valorisation. Given this picture, it appears urgent and no longer postponable to provide an infrastructure offering: i) a long-term preservation service for audio archives, ii) a shared set of metadata compliant with the main international standards and FAIR principles, and iii) an access interface which takes into account the peculiarities of the audio modality and which is able to support researchers in different disciplines. This paper presents how the Archivio Vi.Vo. project tackles these problems, illustrating the overall methodology adopted and infrastructure that is being developed
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