Howard Besser Talks

Selected list of post-2008 Talks by Howard Besser

Preserving Digital Images and Data: Procedures, Policy, and Privacy, Good Systems Project, University of Texas, Austin, April 3, 2024
Preserving Digital Images and Data: Procedures, Policy, and Privacy, Information Access Seminar, UC Berkeley iSchool, March 22, 2024
Preserving Copyrighted Video: The Video At Risk project, OCEAN's All Rights Issues Concerning Preservation in a Contemporary Context, Online, June 16, 2023
Issues in Telling the stories of "Leaderless" Social Justice Movements, Bioneers, Berkeley, April 1, 2023
The Challenge of Copyright and Difficult Materials, MIAP Intro, NYU, Nov 23, 2022
Digital Privacy: The Library Freedom Institute, The Culture of Archivess, Museums, and Libraries, NYU, May 2, 2022
Digital Photos as a Tool for Cultural Heritage Preservation, Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 15 July, 2021
New Media & Digital Conservation Program, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, Germany, 6-12 May, 2021
- Video & Audio: Preventative Conservation
- Disaster Prevention and Recovery
- Complex Works
- Personal Digital Archiving: Managing born-digital audiovisual collections across the lifecycle
Making our Metadata & Descriptions less offensive: Lessons from the Library and conventional Archive worlds, Issues in Handling Racist or Colonial Works in our Collections, Association of Moving Image Archivists, Nov 20, 2020
Digital Privacy for Librarians (& Others): The Library Freedom Institute, Information Access Seminar, UC Berkeley iSchool, Nov 13, 2020 (Berkeley)
Archiving the Non-Organizational Born-Digital: The Challenges Posed by Material from Individuals, Communities, Social Movements, and Events, Information Access Seminar, UC Berkeley iSchool, Mar 6, 2020 (Berkeley)
Current and Future Trends in Museum Interaction with the Public, Digital and Communications in Museums, 20 November 2019 (Seoul)
Why Managing Digital Preservation is different than managing Analog Preservation, Association for Heritage Preservation of the Americas—APOYO 30, 23 September, 2019 (Rio de Janeiro)
Community and Activist Archives: Their Importance and the Challenges They Face, Consider the Source: Activist Archives & Collective Memory, Open Society Foundation, September 12, 2019 (NYC)
The Challenges of Archiving Personal, Community, & Event-based Born-Digital material, Indiana University I-School, August 30, 2019 (Bloomington)
Newsreels, News Footage, Documentaries, Home Movies, & Cellphone Movies as City Memory, Film Festivals and Film Restoration, 2019 International Film Festival Forum, Xiamen University, 1 July 2019 (Xiamen, China)
New Media & Digital Conservation Program, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, Germany, 13-14 February, 2019

Archiving websites containing streaming media: the Music Composer Project, International Internet Preservation Consortium, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, NZ, 13 Nov 2018
The Dark Side of the Press in cinema: decontextualization, sensationalism, entertainment, and fake news, Cinema Memory Conference, Yangon, 10 Nov, 2018
Digital Privacy for Librarians (& Others), UC Berkeley iSchool, Oct 19, 2018
Digital Photos as tools for Cultural Heritage Preservation, Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, 24 Rio de Janeiro, September, 2018
NYU's Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program, Cine-Ops, Ouro Preto, Brasil, 16 June, 2018
The Future of Media Archives, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi Brasil, 15 June, 2018
The MIAP Pedagogy, Training in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi Brasil, 15 June, 2018
Issues in Conservation of Time-Based Media and Complex Media Art, Preserving Time-Based Media/Thinking Complex Media, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Niteroi, Brasil, 14 June, 2018
Dealing with Non-industry Born-digital Audiovisual Works: Lessons from Activist Archivists and Personal Digital Archiving, Activating the Archive, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, May 27, 2018
Archival Practice involves Curation; Trying to minimize the impact of ruling narratives, Archives and Memory: New Ways of Making History, Shaping San Francisco, San Francisco, May 23, 2018
Crossing Boundaries Between Media Art Conservation, Archiving, and Preservation: the NYU MIAP Experience, It's About Time! Building a New Discipline: Time-based Media Art Conservation, NYU Institute of Fine Arts, May 21, 2018
Making Web Archiving Work for Streaming Media: Archiving the Websites of Contemporary Young Composers, UC Berkeley iSchool, Jan 19, 2018
Digital Privacy Training Project: The Library Freedom Institute, UC Berkeley iSchool, Jan 19, 2018
Will Your Production Last? Problems in Moving Image Preservation, Film/Television Production, December 7, 2017
Projects to Collect Born-Digital Archival Material from Individuals and Community Groups, International Council of Archives, Mexico City, 28 November, 2017
The Future of Museums, Re:Trace--Media Art History Conference, Vienna, 25 November, 2017
Film Censorship: What is it?, Censorship & Film Conference: A Southeast Asian Perspective, Cinema Memory, Yangon, 4 November, 2017
The Challenges of Future Special Collections: Handling diverse media types coming from dispersed locations, Special Collections in the Context of Cultural Heritage Protection and Cultural Development Fostering, National Library of Serbia, October 2, 2017
Workshop on Managing Audiovisual Collections, Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council, Vilnius, 4 September, 2017 by Howard Besser

Introduction to Moving Image and Sound Collections
Film: Identification and Risk
Video: Identification & Risk Assessment
Sound: Format Identification, Risk Assessment, Preservation (original slides by James Turner)
Resources to help with workshop participant questions
Collection Management and General Storage Issues
Transferring & Reformatting: Film, Video, Sound; In-House & Outside Vendors (revised from original slides by James Turner)
Access: On site and online; metadata; access formats (original slides by James Turner)
Personal Digital Archives

Archiving is Not What It Used to Be (I hope!), ArtHyve: Archives for Artists, Denver, August 18, 2017
Deeper Challenges in Information Environments crossing Archives, Libraries, and Museums, Digital Symbiotics, Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists, Denver, May 22, 2017
Archiving Websites Containing Streaming Media, Archiving 2017, Riga Latvia, May 16, 2017
Summary Panel, Archives and Libraries in the Anthropocene: A Colloquium, New York University, May 13, 2017
Digital Stewardship Competencies Assessment Survey, National Digital Stewardship Residency Symposium, Washington, April 27, 2017
Extending NDSR Outside the US, National Digital Stewardship Residency Symposium, Washington, April 27, 2017
Education and Training for the A/V Archive of the Future, Southeast Asia and Pacific Audiovisual Archiving Association conference, Manila Philippines, 6 April, 2017
1980s Bay Area Activities and Interventions Inspired by the Situationists, The New Situationists, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, Mar 14, 2017
Competency Assessement Survey Instrument & Focus Group results for DC NDSR, Assessing Training for Digital Stewardship: Findings from the National Digital Stewardship Residency Program, Coalition for Networked Information, Washington, Dec 13, 2016
Will Your Production Last? Problems in Moving Image Preservation, NYU Film & Televsion, November 29, 2016
New Media & Digital Conservation Program, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, Germany, 24-25 November, 2016

Copyright & Privacy for Audiovisual Collections, Western New York Library Resources Council, Preservation Workshop, Buffalo, November 22, 2016
Preserving Non--Linear Audiovisual Works, Lightning Talk, Association of Moving Image Archivists, Pittsburgh, November 11, 2016
various Talks, Cinema Memory Conference, Yangon, November 5-6, 2016
Issues in Archiving Music Composer Websites, International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, Washington, September 26, 2016
Archiving the Websites of Contemporary Young Composers, American Library Association, Preservation & Reformatting Section, Digital Conversion Interest Group, Orlando, June 25, 2016
Audiovisual Digital Preservation for Chile, Del rescate anålogo a la preservacion digital, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago, 3 June, 2016
Archiving the Websites of Contemporary Young Composers (Howard Besser with Lori Donovan), Personal Digital Archiving, University of Michigan, May 13, 2016
Content from internal productions and from Social Networks and Movements:Obtaining Metadata Before Content normally reaches the Archive, Future-Proofing AV Content: Bridging the Gaps in MAM, Metadata and Digital Curation, International Federation of Television Archives, Rio de Janeiro, May 6, 2016
Audio Digitization for Preservation and Access, Preservation Workshop, New York State Library & University at Albany, Albany, April 26, 2016
Commentary on Transformations I, and Response to Eric Hoyt's Talk, Transformations I, New York University, April 16, 2016
Program Assessment and Feedback from Prior Hosts, NDSR Host Educational Session, Library of Congress, Dec 11, 2015
Recent MIAP Curricular Changes, Association of Moving Image Archivists, Portland OR, Nov 21, 2015
The complexity of preserving born-digital cultural heritage: What we can learn from social movements, contemporary art conservation, and analog audiovisual, UNESCO Forum on Virtual Humanities for Sustainable Memory of Graphic Cultural Heritage, Mexico City, Sept 24, 2015
Copyright Talk for PhD students, NYU Cinema Studies, Sept 17, 2015
NDSR Enrichment Session: Personal Digital Archiving (with Jaime Mears), NDSR Cohort, Library of Congress, Sept 10, 2015
Debate on Open Access, Unlocking Sound and Image Heritage, Safeguarding of Image Conservation Care, Brussels, 4 September 2015
Personal Digital Archiving: Issues for Libraries, and a Summary of the PDA Conference, Managing Born-digital audiovisual or multimedia collections across the lifecycle, International Federation of Library Associations, Capetown, 20 August 2015 (paper)
Workshop on Audiovisual Collections for Non-Specialist Librarians, International Federation of Library Associations, Capetown, 18 August, 2015 by Howard Besser

Introduction to Moving Image and Sound Collections
Film: Identification and Risk
Sound: Format Identification, Risk Assessment, Preservation (original slides by James Turner)
Video: Identification & Risk Assessment
Collection Management and General Storage Issues
Transferring & Reformatting: Film, Video, Sound; In-House & Outside Vendors (revised from original slides by James Turner)
Access: On site and online; metadata; access formats (original slides by James Turner)

Legal Issues for Audio Digitization, Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, American Library Association, San Francisco, June 28, 2015
Introduction to the International Federation of Library Associations' Audiovisual and Multimedia Section (IFLA/AVMS), Video RoundTable, American Library Association, San Francisco, June 27, 2015
Female Contributions and Roles in Cinema History, Memory! Film Heritage Festival, Yangon, Myanmar, 30 May 2015
New York National Digital Stewardship Residency Commencement, Brooklyn Historical Society, May 26, 2015
Get in Early: Grabbing Metadata Before Content normally reaches the Archive, International Federation of Television Archives Media Management Seminar, Glasgow, 22 May, 2015
Historical Depictions of Information Technology in Popular Culture, Bard Graduate Center, New York, May 14, 2015 (video)
The Future of Personal Digital Archiving (with Rick Prelinger), Personal Digital Archiving, New York, April 25, 2015
Archiving the Digital Ephemeral: Community Groups, Artists, and Web-based Content, University Library Emergent Research Series, University of Michigan, April 6, 2015
Introduction to Digital Preservation: Issues, Principles, Players, & OAIS, Digital Preservation class, New York, Jan 29-Feb 5
Issues in Conservation of Electronic Art, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Niteroi, RJ, Brasil, 9 January, 2015
New Media & Digital Conservation Program, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, Germany, 24-25 November, 2014

Applying LIS skills in a contemporary changing environment, Dominican University McCusker Lecture, Chicago, October 1, 2014
Howard Besser, Sharon Farb, Todd Grappone, & Ali Jamshidi, Ethics, Technology and the Challenges of Documenting History in Real Time, New technologies, information, users and libraries: Looking into the future, International Federation of Library Associations, Lyon France, 21 August 2014
Workshop on Preservation of Audiovisual Collections, International Federation of Library Associations, 20 August 2014, Lyon France

Introduction à Image Animée & Collections Sonores dans les Bibliothèques
Film: Identification et Évaluation de Risque
Son: identification de format évaluation de risque Préservation (original slides by James Turner)
Vidéo: Identification et Évaluation de Risque
Gerer des Collection et Problèmes de Stockage général
Transfert et reformatage: film, vidéo, son, vendeurs extérieurs (revised from original slides by James Turner)
Access: On site and online; metadata; access formats (original slides by James Turner)

Creating Sustainable AV Preservation Programs in Academic Libraries, Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, American Library Association, Las Vegas, June 30, 2014
Managing Locally-Produced Born-Digital Audiovisual Content, Video Roundtable daylong workshop, American Library Association, Las Vegas, June 27, 2014
Archiving the Ephemeral: Home Movies, Political Movements, Websites, Social Media, Southeast Asia Audiovisual Archiving Association (SEAPAVAA), Vientiane Laos, 27 May, 2014
Training the Next Generation of Professionals for Film Archives with Changing Policies, Mandates, Exhibition, Job Duties, and Workflows, Korean Film Archive 40th Anniversary, Seoul, 23 May, 2014
The Digital--‐Age Challenges of Preserving "Personal" Content: Manuscript Drafts, Photos, & Social Movements, Imaging Science & Technology Archiving, Berlin, 14 May, 2014 (paper)
MIAP 10: Curriculum, Student Projects, and creating a dedicated activist community, MIAP 10th Anniversary, New York, April 30, 2014
Impacts of Copyright Law on Libraries, Academia, and Culture, and the Rise of Open Access and Free Culture Movements, Long Island University Palmer School Spring Colloquium, April 23, 2014
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Managing locally-produced born-digital A/V content, Metropolitan New York Library Council, Dec 12, 2013
Preservation & Access of user-generated Media from Social Movements, Newseum, Washington DC, Dec 5, 2013
The Digital-Age Challenges of Preserving “User‐generated” content: Manuscript Drafts, Correspondence, & Social Movements, Library of Congress National Digital Stewardship Residents, Washington DC, Dec 4, 2013
Video At Risk: Strategies for Preserving Commercial Video Collections in Research Libraries, National Media Market keynote, Charlestown SC, Nov 4, 2013 (Howard Besser & Walter Forsberg)
The Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program: Ten Years, Let There Be Light: A Celebration of Moving Image Preservation, NYU Cinema Studies, Oct 19, 2013
Summary and Synthesis, Pressing Restart: Community Discussions on Video Game Preservation, NYU Game Center, Brooklyn, September 28, 2013
Introduction to the NYU Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program, MIAP New Student Orientation, August 28, 2013
Workshop on Audiovisual Collections for Non-Specialist Librarians, International Federation of Library Associations, Singapore, 19 August, 2013 by Howard Besser

Introduction to Moving Image and Sound Collections
Film: Identification and Risk
Sound: Format Identification, Risk Assessment, Preservation (original slides by James Turner)
Video: Identification & Risk Assessment
Collection Management and General Storage Issues
Transferring & Reformatting: Film, Video, Sound; In-House & Outside Vendors (revised from original slides by James Turner)
Access: On site and online; metadata; access formats (original slides by James Turner)

Important Issues in Preservation & Access of Digital Content for Children, keynote address for Creating the future: preserving, digitizing and accessing all forms of children's and young adults’ cultural heritage, Satellite Conference, International Federation of Library Associations, Bangkok, 14 August, 2013

Suporte papel versus suporte digital: quem sobreviverá? (Paper vs Digital: Which will survive?), Seminårio: Preservaçao de Acervos em Papel, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora et Museu de Arte Murilo Mendes, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil, 27 June, 2013
Bibliotecas Digitales: Estándardes, Metadatos & Preservación, Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, Bogota, 6 June, 2013
Archiving media from the Occupy Movement: Trying to involve participants in making their creations more preservable, Intellectual Access to Preservation Metadata Interest Group, American Library Association, Seattle, Jan 26, 2013
Video at Risk: Preserving Commercial Video Collections in Research Libraries, Preservation Administrators Interest Group, American Library Association, Seattle, Jan 26, 2013
New Media & Digital Conservation Program, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, Germany, 17-18 December, 2012

Video At Risk: Preserving Commercial Video Collections in Research Libraries, Coalition for Networked Information, Washington DC, Dec 11, 2012
Video At Risk: Strategies for Preserving Commercial Video Collections in Research Libraries, Association for Moving Image Archivists, Seattle, Dec 6, 2012
Archiving Media from the “Occupy” Movement: Methods for Archives trying to manage large amounts of user-‐generated audiovisual media, Image and Research 12th conference, Girona, Catalunya, 23 November, 2012 | paper
Preparing the Next Generation of Audiovisual Archivists: Lessons from New York University’s Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program, Image and Research 12th conference, Girona, Catalunya, 22 November, 2012 | paper
Video At Risk: Strategies for Preserving Commercial Video Collections in Research Libraries, UC Berkeley School of Information, November 2, 2012
DRM Issues, NYU Digital Preservation class, Oct 23, 2012
Archiving Media from the “Occupy” Movement: Methods for Archives trying to manage large amounts of user‐generated audiovisual media, UNESCO's Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation, Vancouver, 26 September, 2012
Metadata in Media Projects, MIAP Access class, New York, September 24, 2012
Contemporary Art that Does Not Last Without Being Changed: Issues for Librarians, Art Now! Contemporary Art Resources in a Library Context, Nordic Art Libraries Association, International Federation of Library Associations Satellite Conference, August 9, 2012
The Preservation Week experience from NYU's "Community Archiving and the Occupy Wall Street Movement" event, June 24, 2012
Audiovisual as Research Data, Screening the Future, USC, May 21, 2012
Archiving Large Swaths of User-Contributed Digital Content: Lessons from Archiving the Occupy Movement (video of session will be posted when available)

Activist Archivists Projects by Howard Besser
Occupy Collecting at NYU by David Millman
Occupy Archive at CHNM by Sharon Leon
Archiving Occupy Movement Web Content by Kristine Hanna

Digital Primary Material in Arts & Humanities: Moving Image Archiving, Curation, & Preservation. Information, Communication, Journalism, Media and Technology: Content and Context of Digital Culture, Boulder, Feb 28, 2012 (streaming video starts at 2:30 here or here)
Approaches to teaching Policy, Project Management, and Leadership Skills, Association for Moving Image Archivists, Nov 18, 2011
Interesting Recent Developments in Film Archiving & Preservation: From Classics to Ephemeral Works, Memory in World Cinema, San Antonio, Sept 24, 2011
Workshop on Audiovisual Collections for Non-Specialist Librarians, International Federation of Library Associations, San Juan, Puerto Rico, August 16, 2011 by Howard Besser & James Turner

Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections, Riga, Latvia, July 11-14, 2011

Filmmaker Helen Hill: Animation, Activism, and Recovery, American Library Association, New Orleans, June 26, 2011
25 Years of Digital Archives of Visual Materials: What we've done, What we've learned, and What challenges remain, Visual Archives in the Digital Age, Jacobs University, Bremen Germany, June 14, 2011
Digital Media at the University, Yale University, May 6, 2011
Preservation of Moving Images and Sound, New York Public Library Preservation Week, April 27, 2011
Hidden Archives of Amateur Cinematic Material: Making Orphan Works Accessible to Scholars, Photo Archives and the Photographic Memory of History, Institute of Fine Arts, NYC, March 25, 2011
Large datasets of visual daily culture: Why they're important; who's studying them; and the challenges for scholars, scholarship, pedagogy, and stewards, University of Texas, "The Digital and the Human(ities): Teaching and Learning, Texas Institute for Literary & Textual Studies, March 12, 2011
Building Sustainable Digital Libraries: Lessons from NDIIPP's Preserving Digital Public Television Project, University of Texas iSchool, March 10, 2011
The Image in an Age of Recontextualization, International Conference on the Image, UCLA, December 3, 2010
Introduction to Preservation for LIS Students, Long Island University Palmer School, November 17, 2010
Re‐Imaging archives for the Digital Scholar of the Future, Re-Imagining the Archive, UCLA, November 13, 2010
What is Digital Video? A Very Short Introduction, TechFocus I: Caring for Video Art, Guggenheim NYC, September 2, 2010
Howard Besser & Kara van Malssen, Legal Deposit for Audiovisual Material: Preliminary Survey Results, International Federation of Library Associations, Göteborg Sweden, August 12, 2010
Background: Conservation of Media Art and other Complex Objects, New Media & Digital Conservation Program, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, Germany, 17 June, 2010
Video & Audio: Preventative Conservation, New Media & Digital Conservation Program, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, Germany, 17-18 June, 2010
Video Standards, New Media & Digital Conservation Program, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, German, 18 June, 2010
Six Six Strategies for Sustainable Preservation of Born Digital Public Television (co-written with Kara Van Malssen), IS&T Archiving 2010, Den Haag,2 June 2010
The Internet as DeFacto Archive: Communies of Interest saving films, L’avenir de la mémoire: patrimoine, restauration et réemploi cinématographiques, Cinemathéque Quebecois, Montréal, 12 Feb, 2010
Intellectual Property Issues for Moving Image & Sound Collections, Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections Workshop, ICCROM, New Delhi, India, 19 November, 2009
Cataloging and Documentation Principles and the Use and Types of Metadata, Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections Workshop, ICCROM, New Delhi, India, 18 November, 2009
Authenticity and Ethical Issues for Moving Image & Sound Collections, Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections Workshop, ICCROM, New Delhi, India, 18 November, 2009
Collection Management and General Storage Issues, Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections Workshop, ICCROM, New Delhi, India, 18 November, 2009
Introduction to Digital Preservation, Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections Workshop, ICCROM, New Delhi, India, 17 November, 2009
Introduction to AudioVisual Collections, Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections Workshop, ICCROM, New Delhi, India, 16 November, 2009
Introduction to Digital Preservation: Issues, Principles, Players, & OAIS, Digital Preservation class, 9 September, 2009
Moving Image & Sound Workshop, International Federation of Library Associations, Audiovisual and Media Section, Milan, 24 August, 2009

Paradigm Shifts in the Conservation of Electronic Art, Multimedia Center, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, 29 July, 2009
Film Restoration & Preservation, Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City, 27 July, 2009
Preservation and Handling of Digital & Media Works, Northwestern University Library, July 14, 2009

NYU's Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program, Northwestern University Library, July 14, 2009

Background: Conservation of Media Art and other Complex Objects, New Media & Digital Conservation Program, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, Germany, 2 July, 2008
Video & Audio: Preventative Conservation, New Media & Digital Conservation Program, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, Germany, 3 July, 2009
Video Standards, New Media & Digital Conservation Program, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, Germany
In a Digital World, Image & Sound Collections require Stewardship: Selection, Curation, Preservation, Presentation, Association of Image & Sound Museums (MIS), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 26 June, 2009
The Challenge of Copyright & Difficult Materials: Underlying rights, Orphan works, media and remixed works, teaching exceptions, & library exceptions for digital preservation and access, Yale University, April 28, 2009
Strange Culture: The Event and the Film, March 25, 2009
Video & Audio: Preventative Conservation, New Media & Digital Conservation Program, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, Germany, 3 July, 2008
Conservation of Media Art and other Complex Objects, New Media & Digital Conservation Program, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, Germany, 3 July, 2008