Share That Knowledge!: A Road Map for Sharing Knowledge across Generations of Audiovisual Archivists

Share That Knowledge! A Road Map for Sharing Knowledge across Generations of Audiovisual Archivists is the result of a four-year research project into the methods and strategies of sharing knowledge within audiovisual archives, which was initiated by the Austrian Film Museum and the Slovenian Cinematheque, joined by colleagues from 11 other audiovisual archives, and supported by the Austrian government and FIAF.

The goal of Share that Knowledge! was to find better strategies for sharing knowledge within our profession of audiovisual preservation. The final publication, a "road map," focuses on finding the right methods for transferring knowledge and skills that are at risk of being lost (organizational, technical, preservation, and collection knowledge), the situations and scenarios that need our attention when it comes to knowledge transfer (starting a job, leaving a job, during daily work, and when knowledge has left), as well as successful practices that we found in the examples of the colleagues we interviewed.

Published by FIAF and Austrian Film Museum

Janneke van Dalen is co-manager of the film collection at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna. Prior to working at the Austrian Film Museum, she worked as a film projectionist and technician for film festivals, cinemas and exhibitions, and as an audiovisual archivist at the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision. She holds a Certificate from the Jeffrey L. Selznick School in Rochester, a master's degree in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image from the University of Amsterdam, and a bachelor's degree in Cultural Studies from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Nadja Šičarov is a freelance film conservator-restorer, and archivist. She has previously worked as a film conservator-restorer at the Slovenian Cinematheque in Ljubljana and as a film restorer at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna. She holds a bachelor's degree in Conservation and Restoration of Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana, and a Master's Degree in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image from the University of Amsterdam.