Documental analysis guide for audiovisual archives

  • Patricia Suárez, Bolivia
  • OBJECTIVES
    a)GENERAL OBJECTIVES
    - To elaborate a documental analysis guide for audiovisual documents in information units.

    b)SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
    - To set the concept and definition of an audiovisual archive
    - To set the kinds of media to be considered for an audiovisual archive.
    - To make a methodological proposal for the conservation, preservation,use of the historical audiovisual memory of the country.

    METHODOLOGY
    - A diagnosis of the situation of audiovisual archives of the cities of the main axis of the country (La Paz, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz) will be done.
    - Surveys will be applied in order to gather data regarding to the situation (scope, methods, and processes done in audiovisual archives).
    - A model to be applied in the areas of organization, preservation, and use of audiovisual materials (classification and cataloguing), according to the latest and most relevant theoretical-practical advances is to be build.

    RESULTS
    - To elaborate and develop an organizational model applicable in audiovisual archives.
    - To elaborate a reference model to guarantee the preservation of audiovisual material.
    - To standardize the classification, ordering, and cataloguing techniques in the audiovisual archives of Bolivia.

    CONCLUSION
    The Bolivian audiovisual memory is one of the most vulnerable in the country, due to the lack of evaluation studies regarding its state.

    This work is an effort to fulfill the urgent necessity to establish the application of an organizational theoretical model and technique that can be used as a guide for the use of standards for the organization of audiovisual archives.