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