Archival tapes from the 1980s filmed in Igloolik. Recovered by NITV from IBC Igloolik archives, recently digitized with the help of Vtape distribution.
Since the 1970’s, IBC has been recording Inuit stories from an Inuit perspective – an estimated 9,000 hours of unique footage. In 2015, we began the process of cataloguing and digitizing these videos and have created the Inuit Film and Video Archive. Videos can be accessed online at www.isuma.tv/ibc.… Uqalimakkanirit
This is Taz Morgan, the Media Archive Intern at WITNESS. Teague Schneiter thought the IsumaTV community would be interested in this post that I wrote for the WITNESS blog.
At this year's annual meeting of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), as IsumaTV's Archivist, I spoke about the importance and challenges and opportunities that are afforded through indigenous archiving.
I discussed our own Digitizing the Inuit and Aboriginal Media Archive project, as well as examples from other indigenous-designed community archives.
IsumaTV are headed to New York this weekend for the second annual Open Video Conference. The event brings together a wide array of participants, from technologists, academics, entrepreneurs, artists, filmmakers, video creators, remixers, activists, archivists, as and online video audiences.… Uqalimakkanirit
The DIAMA Blog is an ongoing conversation related to the topic of indigenous media archiving. It will include posts related to the preservation and access of indigenous media via web technologies, as well as ways that archives and archival content is being used commuities, such as language preservation.… Uqalimakkanirit
