| Arts in Los Angeles Project | ||
This project on the history of the arts in Los Angeles offers primary source sound and moving image documentation of artists, architects, writers, composers, experimental filmmakers, musicians, and others involved in the vibrant and diverse 20th Century Southern California arts scene. Included in the project are interviews and oral histories with individuals discussing their work, life, and times; lectures; and contemporary documentation and critiques of work. While the focus of this pilot project is on the history of the arts in Los Angeles, the collections that will be made accessible have value beyond art history and criticism, and can be incorporated into broader humanities studies. With deep indexing, scholars can track movements, terms, and styles across decades. They can hear and watch an artist discuss their work at different points in their careers. Because AVAN will offer historical audiovisual content from individuals and a variety of organizational types (universities, archives, broadcasters, national libraries, etc.), on diverse subjects and in all forms (news, interviews, broadcasts, oral histories, performance documentation, etc.), scholars will discover cross-discipline content they did not know existed. AVAN’s system will create speech-to-text transcriptions to enable keyword searching at the time-based level. Existing metadata will be enhanced by students in UCLA’s Moving Image Archive Studies program (MIAS) and other discipline-appropriate graduate students, with controlled vocabularies based on national and community standards assigned at points in the timecode when a topic or name is mentioned. Enhanced metadata is returned to the contributing archive to use as they please. All records have links to the contributing archive, so it is clear where the original content is held. Subjects covered in the project include:
If you would like to participate in the project and contribute sound or moving image content, please contact Linda Tadic at ltadic@archivenetwork.org Content must be provided in a digital file (any format), and existing metadata may be in any format or structure. All types of archives, collections, and individuals can be content partners. Please note that participation in this project does not assign any copyright to the content to UCLA or AVAN; all rights are retained by the archive, as the AVAN Library is not exclusive. For a list of current content partners, click here. |
Who will use AVAN? Archives Filmmakers Schools and Universities Video and Sound Artists Students Researchers Scholars General public Libraries Broadcasters Studios Museums Radio Arts Centers Production Organizations Everyone |
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