Managing Film and Video Collections

In 2018, the University of Kansas (KU) Libraries upgraded from a tired, twenty-year-old basement space to a new, purpose-built conservation lab for library and archives collections. The new conservation lab, which is housed in the special collections and archives library, quadrupled available lab space for its conservators and fleet of student employees. The move afforded Conservation space in the same library as the most vulnerable collection materials. In addition, rooms in the special collections and archives library were repurposed for audiovisual (AV) preservation, creating two new spaces for film and video workflows and upgrading an existing small audio room. This paper will discuss the conservation and preservation lab construction literature and will serve as a practical exemplar of the challenges and successes of the planning process, including lessons learned and unexpected benefits.

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The semiotics of movement and mobility

Multimodality & Society ◽

10.1177/2634979521992733 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 97-118

Author(s):

Theo van Leeuwen

Keyword(s):

Product Design ◽

Distinctive Feature ◽

Meaning Making ◽

Feature Analysis ◽

Movement Direction ◽

Dance Music ◽

Distinctive Features ◽

Live Action ◽

Film And Video

The paper presents a framework for the distinctive feature analysis of movement and mobility in texts, performances and semiotic artefacts, showing its applicability to the analysis of meaning-making in dance, music, animated and live action film and video, and product design. Emphasis is placed on the role of movement and mobility in identity design. Identity design is realized by the style in which movements are performed and can be analysed in terms of the gradable distinctive features present in any movement – direction, expansiveness, velocity, force, angularity, fluidity, directedness and regularity. The paper includes a historical dimension, focusing on the development of movement and mobility as semiotic resources, and argues for the pioneering role of modernist artists in this development.

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Regulating for Content on the Internet: Meeting Cultural and Social Objectives for Broadband

Media International Australia ◽

10.1177/1329878x0110100105 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 101 (1) ◽

pp. 19-31 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Gerard Goggin ◽

Catherine Griff

Keyword(s):

The Internet ◽

Final Report ◽

Media Convergence ◽

Different Types ◽

The Future ◽

Broadcasting Regulation ◽

Productivity Commission ◽

Specific Regulation ◽

Film And Video ◽

Do So

Much of the present debate about content on the internet revolves around how to control the distribution of different sorts of harmful or undesirable material. Yet there are considerable issues about whether sufficient sorts of desired cultural content will be available, such as ‘national’, ‘Australian’ content. In traditional broadcasting, regulation has been devised to encourage or mandate different types of content, where it is believed that the market will not do so by itself. At present, such regulatory arrangements are under threat in television, as the Productivity Commission Broadcasting Inquiry final report has noted. But what of the future for certain types of content on the internet? Do we need specific regulation and policy to promote the availability of content on the internet? Or is such a project simply irrelevant in the context of gradual but inexorable media convergence? Is regulating for content just as quixotic and fraught with peril as regulating of content from a censorship perspective often appears to be? In this article, we consider the case of Australian content for broadband technologies, especially in relation to film and video, and make some preliminary observations on the promotion and regulation of internet content.

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