ELAR celebrates UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage

By ELAR Archive|October 27, 2020|Digitisation of Legacy Materials, Long Reads, Showcase|0 comments

Today on the ELAR blog, we celebrate UNESCO’s World Day for Audiovisual Heritage by highlighting a few ELAR collections that not only create new audiovisual documents but also incorporate heritage materials in meaningful ways. By Sydney Rey This year’s theme for UNESCO’s World Day for Audiovisual Heritage is “Window to the world.” “Audiovisual materials as documentary heritage objects provide a window to the world as we observe events we cannot

Saving recordings from 1960s and 1970s in Valoc’

By Fabio Scetti DIPRALANG – Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 Since 2016, I have been in charge of the documentation and description of Valoc’, a variety of the Lombard dialect spoken in Val Masino, lower Valtellina, Northern Lombardy in Italy. I founded a Research Panel named VVV (Vocabulary of Valoc’ of Val Masino), the lateral valley of Valtellina where it is spoken. Together with my colleagues, Stefano Bisello and Federica Salamino,