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Case study: The Historic Media Collection at Seattle Art Museum
Journal of Digital Media Management,
12
(4),
362-372
(2024)
Abstract
The Historic Media Collection in the Seattle Art Museum’s Research Libraries & Archives is a unique collection of exclusively audiovisual materials that tell the history of the institution from its founding in 1933 up to 2019. With approximately 3,000 unique items on physical legacy formats of film, video and audio, establishing the collection and making it available to museum staff and researchers has been a long and ongoing journey. With the recent award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the digitisation, preservation and access to these materials has been prioritised. This paper provides a brief history of the collection along with a more in-depth look at the challenges and considerations in selecting a digital asset management system appropriate for the collection.
Keywords: grant-funded project; videotape; moving-image archiving; special collections; art museum
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Author's Biography
Mia Ferm is the Media Archivist for Oregon Public Broadcasting. From 2021 through 2023, she served as the Project Manager, Historic Media Collection at the Seattle Art Museum. She has extensive experience in various aspects of moving-image media as the Curator and Executive Director of Cinema Project and the Education Programs Manager at the former Northwest Film Center in Portland, Oregon. Her academic credentials include an MA from the University of Amsterdam’s preservation and presentation of the moving image programme, an MA in cinema studies from New York University, and a BA in film theory, history and production from University of California San Diego.
