Tag: IASA Journal

New Issue: IASA Journal

International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) Journal, 56 (2026)
(open access)

Editorial
Jennifer Vaughn

A Letter from IASA’s President
Patrick Midtlyng

Tribute
Gloria Brenda Sharp (Kotze) (1962–2025)
Ilse Assman, Christopher Grové, Masego Mmutle

Review
Formats of Memory: Negotiating Standards and Audiovisual Futures
Aleksandra Milovanovic

Articles
Curating Ružake gila: Making a Minority Music Culture’s Audiovisual Heritage Accessible through a Digital Exhibition
Eva Leick, Ursula Hemetek, Malik Sharif

Understanding On-Screen Text Do AI Tools Struggle with Hawaiian Chyrons?
Kelley Lynch, Owen King, Yangyang Chen, Gabrielle Keen, Kyeongmin Rim

The Wax Cylinder Recordings of the German Navy Expedition (1907–1909)
Lennart Ritz

Building the First Archive of Wamin Music and Language
Markos Koumoulas

Wartime Recordings of Voskovec and Werich: Preservation Procedures, INA-Saphir Scanning System and Damaged World War II Lacquer Discs
Filip Sir, Martin Mejzr, Geoff Tyson, Michal Studničný, Kristýna Boumová

A Film for the Ears: An Experiment in Archival Listening and Sonic Ethnography on David MacDougall’s Tempus de Baristas
Diego Pani

Call for Submissions: IASA Journal Issue 56

The IASA Journal invites contributions for Issue 56, to be published in 2026.

We welcome original research articles, case studies, reviews, and reports addressing all areas of sound and audiovisual archiving and preservation: from technical innovations to theoretical, ethical, and practical perspectives.

Key Dates

• Abstract deadline: 1 December 2025

• Submission deadline: 15 January 2026

Early submissions are encouraged! Questions and proposals can be sent to editor@iasa-web.org

Let your work contribute to global discourse in audiovisual archiving.

https://journal.iasa-web.org/index…/pubs/about/submissions

New Issue: International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) Journal

Issue 55 of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) Journal
(open access)

How the German National Library Migrated 770,000 Compact Discs and Digitized 50,000 Audiocassettes
Ruprecht Langer

The Digitisation of Audiovisual Assets Salvaged from the Jagger Library Fire: A Practical Overview
Andrea Walker, Susan Mvungi

Building Audio Preservation Capacities for Georgian Ethnographic Recordings at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire
David M. Walker, Crystal Sanchez

“To Prove to You I Haven’t Forgotten My Norwegian”: The Audio Letters of Owen Veum
Karl Peder Mork

Unveiling Southeast Asian Musical Data in Europe with the Pratinada Platform: Functions, Origins, and Cultural Perspectives
Joséphine Simonnot, Dana Rappoport

Uncovering Aspects of Azerbaijani Traditional Music within Early Caucasian Music Discography
Sanubar Baghirova

New Issue: IASA Journal

Issue 53 of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) Journal
open access

Editorial
Jennifer Vaughn

A Letter from IASA’s President
Tre Berney

Indigenous Voices and the Archive; Recirculating J. H. Hutton’s Cylinder Recordings in Nagaland
Christian Poske

Identification and Assessment of Film Appraisal Mechanisms Aimed at the Improvement of Archiving and Presentation Processes
Bohuš Získal

Listening With/in Context: Towards Multiplicity, Diversity, and Collaboration in Digital Sound Archives
Emily Collins

Ethics of Sound Quality in Online Teaching, Learning and Conferencing: Perspectives Gained During the Covid Pandemic
Ahmad Faudzi Musib, Chinthaka Prageeth Meddegoda, Gisa Jähnichen, Xiao Mei

New Translations: IASA-TC 03

While this is not scholarly per se, I want to highlight the new Portuguese and German translations of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives’ Safeguarding of the Audiovisual Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy (IASA-TC 03). Congrats to IASA on their great work!

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IASA is excited to announce the release of a German translation of The Safeguarding of the Audiovisual Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy (IASA-TC 03). The new translation is available as a PDF only on the web edition page for TC 03 here: https://www.iasa-web.org/tc03/ethics-principles-preservation-strategy

IASA thanks Dietrich Schüller and Kurt Deggeller for their extraordinary work in ensuring the completion and publication of this new translation.

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IASA is excited to announce the release of a Portuguese (Brazilian) translation of The Safeguarding of the Audiovisual Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy (IASA-TC 03). The new translation is available as a PDF only on the web edition page for TC 03 here: https://www.iasa-web.org/tc03/ethics-principles-preservation-strategy

IASA thanks Ariane Gervásio and Marco Dreer for their extraordinary work in ensuring the completion and publication of this new translation. IASA also thanks members of the Associação Brasileira de Preservação Audiovisual (ABPA), especially Carlos Roberto de Souza, Igor Calado, and Ines Aisengart Menezes, for their assistance with reviewing the translation for publication.

CFP: IASA Journal

IASA Journal invites proposals covering general topics of interest to the sound and audiovisual archives communities throughout the world. Articles, reviews, essays, and technical documents are welcome.

Important dates:
May 15, 2018: Full article submission deadline
July 15, 2018: Journal release
Issue no. 49 special considerations:
We encourage submissions that respond to critical issues for audiovisual archives today:
  • Degradation in legacy physical collections, especially magnetic carriers
  • Obsolescence of playback equipment and strategies for acquiring spare parts for playback machines
  • Selecting sustainable and compatible target codecs and wrappers for A-to-D video reformatting projects
  • Strategies for handling the proliferation of born-digital audiovisual formats and codecs
  • Planning for the necessary technical infrastructure needed to ingest and manage the large digital collections being created and acquired at sound and audiovisual archives worldwide
  • Intellectual property rights
  • Metadata strategies for time-based media objects
  • Providing meaningful and useful access to sound and audiovisual collections for researchers of all kinds and in all locations
Please consider submitting an article covering one of these topics or the results of independent research that would be of interest to the IASA membership and the international audiovisual archives community.
To make a submission:
Visit the IASA Journal’s new beta website (http://journal.iasa-web.org) and follow the submission instructions. If you have questions or difficulty with the new site, please contact the IASA Editor (editor@iasa-web.org).
About the IASA Journal:
The Journal of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives represents the collected research and applied work of the global audiovisual archives community. It is published in issues bi-annually and available to all members of the IASA community. The IASA Journal uses a double-blind peer-review methodology (the authors do not know who reviews their papers, and reviewers do not know who wrote the papers they are reviewing).
Previous issues, older than 5 years, can be found on the IASA website as PDFs for public download. IASA Journal issues from no. 32 and later are published in both hard copy form and electronically. Hard copy editions are supplied to all IASA Members, IASA Supporters and IASA Subscribers (unless they opt out of receiving print copies in favour of an electronic version – and the environment!).
IASA Journal is testing a new online home as it considers providing open access to all content. The new online home provides a portal for submissions, review, and journal preparation, even as we await to move from print to online. See https://journal.iasa-web.org for more info.
Best regards —
Bertram Lyons
IASA Editor

New Issue: IASA Journal

IASA journal No 48, February 2018
(membership)

  • Editorial and President’s Letter
  • ‘It’s Your Story, Don’t Lose It’ – Using Sound And Image Heritage to Bridge Cultures
    Judith Opoku-Boateng, J. H. Kwabena Nketia Archives, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
  • Interview with Robyn Holmes 2016 ASRA Award Recipient: Sound is My Passion
    Melinda Barrie, University of Melbourne Archives, Australia
  • Archiving the Digital RAI Collection of Traditional Folk Culture
    Ettore Pacetti, Audiovisual Archives, RAI Teche, Italy; Daniela Floris, Audiovisual Archives, RAI Teche, Italy
  • From International Shortwave to Digital Rebroadcast: Transforming Music Time in Africa for a New Worldwide Audience
    Paul Conway, Associate Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan, USA; Kelly Askew, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, USA
  • IASA Research Grant Report: Pilot Project in Re-Study and Repatriation (Digital Return) of the International Library of African Music’s Hugh Tracey Field Recordings
    Diane Thram, International Library of African Music, South Africa
  • Innovation and Human Failure in Small-Scale Audiovisual Archives – What Do We Need to Learn from Each Other?
    Ahmad Faudzi Musib, Putra University, Malaysia (UPM), Faculty of Human Ecology, Music Department, Malaysia; Thongbang Homsombat, National Library of Laos, Archives of Traditional Music in Laos; Chinthaka Prageeth Meddegoda, University of the Visual and Performing Arts, Colombo, Sri Lanka; Gisa Jähnichen, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China; Xiao Mei, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China
  • Broadcaster’s Dilemma with Archive Asset Management: Torn Between Long Term and Production Requirements
    Silvester Stöger, NOA, Austria; Jean-Christophe Kummer, NOA, Austria
  • Compressed Video Quality
    Iain Richardson, Vcodex Ltd., UK
  • Ka Mua, Ka Muri—Looking Back to Look Forward: Digital Preservation and Oral History Workflows at the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand
    Valerie Love, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand
  • The Importance of Memories in the Transmedia Era
    Ariane Cristina Gervásio da Silva, Brazilian Association of Audiovisual Archives, Brazil

Recent Issue: IASA Journal

IASA Journal No 46, May 2016
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives

Download articles (IASA members only)
  1. Editorial and President’s Letter
  2. IASA’s Travel Award Program
    Bertram Lyons, IASA Editor, USA
  3. Legacy Collections, their Value and their Accessibility
    Grace Koch, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
  4. Unearthing the Underground, Databasing the Avant-Garde, and Mapping the Independent Media Community
    Lindsay Kistler Mattock, The University of Iowa, USA
    Kara Wentworth, The University of Iowa, USA
  5. Too Good to be Forgotten: The Copyright Dichotomy and the Public-Sector Audiovisual Archive
    Claudy Op den Kamp, Swinburne Law School, Australia
  6. Securing Audio Transfer
    Sebastian Gabler, NOA Audio Solutions, Austria
  7. Quality Management for Preservation of Analogue and Digital Video Tape
    Sebastian Gabler, NOA GmbH, Austria
  8. Ghosts on the Wire
    Leslie McCartney, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
  9. Journey of Big Bertha Webster
    JA Pryse, Oklahoma Historical Society, USA
  10. IASA Research Grant Report: A Study on the Changing Prices of Audiovisual Digitization, 2006–2015
    Rebecca Chandler, AVPreserve, USA