All Projects

Archive Associates accepts commissions to review, analyse and advise and (typically) deliver a report at the end of the exercise. The range of projects has included:

• A general review of the Audiovisual Archive section of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), Canberra, Australia. (2004)
• The National Film and Sound Archive’s reconstruction of the classic film “The Sentimental Bloke” (1919), on which Ray worked and advised intermittently for several years (in his capacity as Curator Emeritus), was premiered in June 2004 at the Sydney Film Festival. Voted the best film at the festival, it has since been presented in special screenings around Australia.
• A review of the curriculum of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Masters’ program at New York University was undertaken in stages over 2004/2005.
• The Oesterreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna, Austria, commissioned a study on storage and work flow issues (2004). One of Austria’s two major film archives, its well known and distinctive “black box” cinema is located at the centre of Vienna in the Albertina building.
• A review of the video archiving and arrangement of collections of the Media Centre at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji (2004)
• Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Canberra, Australia Advice on disposition of oral history archive (2006)
• UNESCO status report on the Memory of the World program in the Asia-Pacific region (2005)
• UNESCO Charter on the preservation of digital heritage – Ray Edmondson was involved in the final drafting of this instrument, and co-chaired the initial workshop which began the global process of consultation (2003) here.