Outreach Activities
Fradique LizardoFormer ILKAR collaborator Maurice Mengel is
applying lessons learned from ILKAR's inspection procedure on a different
archive. Mengel will prepare the Centro León's Fradique Lizardo collection for
digitization. The late Lizardo was one of the most influential Dominican
folklore collectors of recent decades. His collection was acquired by the Centro
Leon, one the country's leading cultural institutions, in 2000. The current
project is financed by a Grammy Foundation preservation planning grant.
ILKAR inside the exhibit: Albrecht Wiedmann, demonstration of modern phonograph.ILKAR is part of the exhibit "A Different Approach to the World: The Humboldt-Forum in the Berlin Palace -- A first look at the lab". The exhibit opens on July 9 2009 in the Altes Museum in Berlin, Germany and exhibts key ideas for the Humboldt-Forum, the new museum which will be built next to Berlin's famous museum island.
Following the Lars Koch's presentation of the ILKAR project at the IASA annual conference in 2008 in Sydney, we submitted an article for the IASA journal in which we describe the project, its objectives and the first preliminary results.
The article is entitled "ILKAR: Integrated Solutions for Preservation, Archiving and Conservation of Endangered Magnetic Tapes and Cylinders" and written by Lars-Christian Koch, Stefan Simon, Elena Gómez-Sánchez, Maurice Mengel and Albrecht Wiedmann.
ILKAR will be visible at the new exhibition "KulturGUTerhalten" which currently takes place at the Altes Museum in Berlin.
kulturGUTerhalten - Restoring the Archaeological Treasures of the National Museums in BerlinOpen Laboratory
Today, we received notice that our proposal for a conference presentation at the anual IASA conference in Athens has been accepted. The talk will be delivered by Elena Gómez-Sánchez and Albrecht Wiedmann and is entitled «ILKAR: Improving the preservation of magnetic tape and cylinders. Some new insights into a well-known problem»
"40th IASA Annual Conference", which will take place on September 20th-25th, 2009 in Athens, for more information see: http://www.iasa2009.com
Lars-Christian Koch presented the ILKAR project to an international audience of audiovisual archivists in the course of the annual IASA conference which took place this year in Sydney, more information about the conference at here.
Abstract: http://www.iasa2008.com/abstract/34.asp
