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The Center for Home Movies: A brief introduction Snowden Becker Co-founder, Home Movie Day/Center for Home Movies PhD Candidate – UT Austin School of Information. 2/16/2010 Personal Archiving 2010 – Internet Archive – San Francisco, CA. Our mission:.
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The Center for Home Movies:A brief introductionSnowden BeckerCo-founder, Home Movie Day/Center for Home MoviesPhD Candidate – UT Austin School of Information 2/16/2010 Personal Archiving 2010 – Internet Archive – San Francisco, CA
Our mission: • To collect, preserve, provide access to, and promote the multidisciplinary use and understanding of amateur film and video
Our projects: • International Home Movie Day: Annual bring-your-own-film, education and outreach event • Community-based • Archivally heretical (now echoing in digital files) • “We’re not anti-video; we’re pro-preservation.” • Living Room Cinema: Films from Home Movie Day DVD; preservation of individual works; partnerships with local groups/organizations
What we’re learning • This stuff is nowhere & everywhere • “If you build it…” • People are keen to digitize • It’s not as bad as we thought, but… • It’s worse than we thought (+ video/digital) • There’s too much for “real archives” to take on • If we take on any more, we have to change how we do it – we’re not good enough now
Implications for future • The records lifecycle is shortening; preservation must be a recognized need • Archivists are still inadequately prepared to work with people’s “papers” • Many mousetraps may be improved: technical and technological, managing inheritance and ownership transitions, rights documentation and assignment, accessibility for research/use
Tomorrow’s projects? • September summit meeting at LOC Culpeper • Home Movie Day Home Media Day • Establishing a “godparent” role for archives • Kits for preparing a preservation plan • “Wills” for disposition of media materials • Creating a larger corpus of accessible material, enabling and encouraging virtual collections
Thanks! http://www.homemovieday.com http://www.centerforhomemovies.org info@centerforhomemovies.org Snowden Becker snowdenbecker@gmail.com (323) 365-9263