The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives - IASA (International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives) is an international organization founded in Amsterdam in 1969 to promote collaboration between archives that store sound and audiovisual documents. The IASA has around 400 institutional and private members in over 70 countries worldwide and is represented at UNESCO as an international non-governmental organization .
The IASA has set itself the goal of promoting global cooperation and the exchange of information between institutional and significant private collections of audio and audiovisual documents. The main focus of the work of the IASA lies in the areas of acquisition and exchange, storage, use and preservation of audio documents, as well as questions of copyright , the creation of discographies and the long-term preservation of audio recordings.
A number of technical commissions exist in IASA to deal with these topics and they present their results at the annual IASA conference.
Board of Directors, committees
The association is led by a board, which is elected by the general assembly and consists of the chairman, three vice-chairmen (with specific tasks), the general secretary, the treasurer and a past president.
The current board (term of office 2017 to 2020) consists of:
President: Toby Seay, The Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, Drexel University
Past President: Ilse Assmann: Head: Media Information Management M-Net, MultiChoice, South Africa
Vice-president (Membership): Judith Gray, Coordinator of Reference Services, Library of Congress
Vice-president (Conferences): Zane Grosa, Head of Audiovisual Reading Room, National Library of Latvia
Web Manager: Richard Ranft, Head of Sound & Vision The British Library
Committees and Sections
Various committees and working groups develop the specific work programs of the IASA by informing and discussing their respective areas of expertise.
the working group Organizing Knowledge Committee (the former cataloging and documentation committee) deals with standards and rules as well as with automatic and manual information systems for the description and recording of audiovisual media;
the Discography Committee deals with standards and guidelines for collections of published documents;
The Technical Committee is dedicated to all technical aspects of recording, handling, preserving and reproducing recordings, in particular the transfer of holdings of conventional data carriers to digital repositories, which is essential for their long-term preservation;
the National Archives Section deals with questions of national collection policy, compulsory deposit or the management of large collections;
the Broadcast Archives Section deals with the specific tasks of the audiovisual collections of broadcasters;
the Research Archives Section deals with the specific questions of collections whose holdings have been prepared for research purposes;
the Training & Education Committee is dedicated to questions relating to the training and further education of audiovisual archives and supports and organizes specific training measures.
Annual conferences
Since its inception, the IASA has held a conference each year, sometimes in partnership with related organizations. In 2010, the IASA and the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) met for the first time at a joint conference in Philadelphia. With over 750 participants and more than 100 presentations and lectures, this was one of the largest conferences in the field of audiovisual archiving. The 2013 conference in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius was held in cooperation with the Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council.
The IASA country group Germany / Switzerland eV was founded on April 25, 1990 and has operated as a registered association since 1998 . The country group currently has 132 members, 106 of them in Germany, 20 in Switzerland and six in other countries. Of these, 39 are institutions such as radio archives , federal and state institutions with sound carrier collections, phono libraries , university institutes , music and linguistic archives , music libraries and special collections. In addition, 56 private individuals are also members.
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