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FIAF Commissions' Thursday Workshops

“Starting from Scratch - Experiences of Cataloguing Mainly Digital Resources” / “The Graveyard Shift - Crowdsourcing for Copyright Data”

Thursday 28 May 2026, 2pm (West Africa Time/CET)

Duration: 1.5 hrs

Organized/presented by: Murchana Borah (Host, member of the CDC), Afomachukwu Igbedion (Nollywood Studies Centre), Annabelle Shaw and Louise McAward-White (British Film Institute)

Limited to 20 participants.

Part 1: “Starting from Scratch - Experiences of Cataloguing Mainly Digital Resources”

Target group: Anyone who is interested in hearing about cataloguing experiences outside of the Global North/Western archival context as well as gaining insight into the Nollywood Studies Centre. This talk is also meant for participants to meet and network.

Content: Afomachukwu Igbedion (Nollywood Studies Centre) will talk about her cataloguing challenges at the Nollywood Studies Centre, where they manage a primarily digital collection. She will present her current approach and will then be open to discussing it with the participants. Not everyone can afford a high-end relational database, so it is important to talk about tools which can support all needs without too many resources.

Part 2: “The Graveyard Shift - Crowdsourcing for Copyright Data”

Target group: Cultural heritage employees interested in hearing about experiences with crowd sourcing events and how to organize them.

Content: The Graveyard Shift is a public research event designed to enhance the BFI’s data and knowledge of copyright in their collections. In the UK, film copyright generally lasts 70 years from the death of the director, screenplay and dialogue author, and composer. So, adding accurate death data to the database allows the BFI to know accurately which films are still in copyright, and which are out of it and can be used more widely. Annabelle Shaw and Louise McAward-White will share their experiences and answer questions about organizing these events.

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