AMIA 2020

While digitization projects have become the norm in audiovisual collections for ensuring the long-term preservation and access to collection materials, less critical attention has been paid to the types of transformative, digital scholarship and digital humanities-related work that these projects facilitate. With advancements in graphic and visual processing technology over the last ~20 years, scholars, filmmakers, and artists have been empowered to engage with digital audiovisual collections in exciting, unprecedented ways that extend beyond traditional notions of “access.” This session will examine a few different case studies of such projects, including the presenter’s own “Colors of Ozu,” in addition to information related to the various free and open-source tools leveraged by these initiatives to both perform the computational analysis of audiovisual collection materials and publish or exhibit the work in a digital space.