Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York - "Project Strategies for Processing Event Documentation"

"Project Strategies for Processing Event Documentation"

Tuesday, October 09, 2012 11:00 AM | Anonymous

Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc., Presentation:
“Project Strategies for Processing Event Documentation"

Wednesday, October 10, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

FREE, RSVP is required. RSVP to harley@franklinfurnace.org

Johanna Went, "Twin Travel Terror," 1987

Martha Wilson, Founding Director of the Franklin Furnace Archive, which focuses on the preservation and celebration of all forms of avant-garde art, will discuss the organization’s recently completed project to create and expand its online event archives, in a program titled "Publishing Franklin Furnace's Second Decade Online: Providing Intellectual Access to Variable Media Art." Michael Katchen, Senior Archivist, will present a guide for digitization, Best Practices and Guidelines: Digitization at Franklin Furnace Archive Inc., which is published on Franklin Furnace's website and is used by other art spaces, such as Hallwalls in Buffalo, and LACE in Los Angeles.

The online database, the digitization and publication of which was supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Booth Ferris Foundation, contains 11,762 images and associated metadata documenting the organization’s first two decades in operation. The organization is currently looking for funding to digitize and publish its third decade of event records.

The evening’s events will include an open house and a tour of the archives, followed by a formal presentation and discussion.

www.franklinfurnace.org

Location: Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. 80 Hanson Place, Suite #301,

Brooklyn, New York

RSVP is required. Up to 20 visitors may be accommodated.

RSVP to harley@franklinfurnace.org

Submitted by Haley Richardson, ART Reporter