Innovation and human failure in small-scale audiovisual archives – what do we need to learn from each other?

• Main Authors: Jahnechen, Gisa, Musib, Ahmad Faudzi, Homsombat, Thongbang, Meddegoda, Chinthaka Prageeth, Xiao, Mei
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) 2018
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/74690/1/Innovation%20and%20human.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/74690/; http://journal.iasa-web.org/pubs/article/view/33
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Based on several previous studies presented at IASA annual conferences (2001, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017) this paper intends to summarize long-term outcomes with a focus on the innovation needed in the digital era and the possible human failure in small-scale archives such as those the authors work with in Asia. In this paper, all authors[1] follow their specific question with the purpose of contributing to an analytic view on how technology collides with or creates a sense of community. Our emphasis is on sharing positive experiences and encouraging others by honestly discussing possible failures due to various conditions. Embedding these possible failures into a wider context is part of a mutual learning process. At the same time, each author will address a different clientele of stakeholders such as educational institutions, governmental decision makers, academia, occasional users, and the AV archivists themselves. [1] The authors know each other and have networked through the activities of the panel organizer in all these institutions over the last two decades.