Preservation/access/reuse-Audio visual collections in the digital age

Abstract

This chapter explores the possibility for creative re-use of digitised archive materials. Sedgwick argues that removing barriers to access the treasures held in our audio-visual archives is an urgent task. Enabling practitioners and the public to mine these collections and remake them anew, so that they are living and contributing to creativity today, seems magical but entirely possible. Sedgwick asserts that in our age it is something we need to tackle with excitement and focus.