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News Archive for October, 2014

  • EUscreen’s new web portal launches

    EUscreen, the European Network for audiovisual heritage, launches its renewed website offering free online access to thousands of items of audiovisual archives The EUscreen Network is proud and thrilled to announce the launch of its renewed EUscreen website (euscreen.eu) during the International Conference From Audience to User: Engaging with Audiovisual Heritage Online, in Rome, Italy […]

  • Recently added to the Moving Image Gateway

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,600 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please contact us by email, telephone or visit the Gateway at http://bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/ The Corner Shop: A Social History Project This website is one of the outcomes of a […]

  • Media Screen Roundup – September 2014

    The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. The journal History and Technology has a number of articles on television. Making science at home: visual displays of space science and nuclear physics at the Science Museum and on […]

  • BBC Genome online

    The Beta version of the BBC Project Genome project has now gone live: http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/ The site contains the BBC TV and radio listings information originally printed in Radio Times magazine between its launch in 1923 and 2009. The site can be searched by title, individuals, magazine issues and specific date ranges. It also includes cover […]

  • Moving Image Gateway – Latest entries

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,600 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please contact us by email, telephone or visit the Gateway at http://bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/ Cornish Story: Cornwall’s Living Archive This site is an initiative of the Cornish Audiovisual Archive (CAVA), […]

  • View Journal CfP: Archaeologies of Tele-Visions and -Realities

    Over the last decade the label “media archaeology” has brought together a growing scholarship investigating new forms of historical research and narratives. While the field resists a coherent methodology, it is generally characterized by its refusal of linear periodization, an emphasis on disregarded objects and historical episodes, and a playful approach to media as hybrid, […]

  • Confused by Copyright?

    Copyright Clearance for Print, Broadcast & Multimedia Production Wednesday 12 November 2014, Central London The BUFVC’s one-day course on copyright is essential for those needing to copy, use and provide access to existing third party content in their work, delivered by expert practitioners in the field. Presented by Alma Hales, Head of Intellectual Property at the Open […]

  • Future-proof AV content for education and research

    AV digital preservation workshop for archives in higher education 6-7 November 2014 IUAV University of Venice & RAI, Venice, Italy www.prestocentre.org/ Organised by the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London in collaboration with the University of Venice IUAV and Italian broadcaster RAI, ‘Future-proof AV content for education and research’ is a two half-day […]

  • Full Programme Announced for EUscreenXL Conference

    The full programme for the EU ScreenXL international conference taking place Thursday 30 – Friday 31 October in Rome is now available. Entitled From Audience to User: Engaging with Audiovisual Heritage Online, the conference is organised by the best practice network for Europe’s audiovisual heritage, EUscreen. Digital access has changed the ways users can consume and […]

  • Moving Image Gateway: Latest Additions

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,600 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please contact us by email, telephone or visit the Gateway at http://bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/ Edudemic This American site provides a range of resources, ideas, news and articles aimed at helping […]