Digitising Film Archives: preservation and accessibility

This Rural Museums Network online seminar will share experiences of three archives digitising their moving image archives. Museum collections contain more than 3D objects. Books, documents and moving images are also cared for by museums and archives. This online seminar shared stories about preserving and making accessible film holdings. We were joined by Brónagh McAtasney from Northern Ireland Screen, Andy MacKinnon from the FAODAIL | FOUND project, Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre and Jen Patterson and Hannah Silver from The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL). Northern Ireland Screen, Digital Film Archive: https://digitalfilmarchive.net/ FAODAIL | FOUND project: https://faodailfilm.scot/ MERL: https://merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-v... If you are interested in learning more about rural films check out the European Rural History Film Association’s online database of films – with over 1,200 works available online. https://www.ruralfilms.eu/index2.html