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The State of the Digitization of Video and Audio Archives in Taiwan
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Daw-Ming
Lee
The research in the field of digitizing video and audio archives is surprisingly few in Taiwan. Most of the studies done are under the auspices of the National Digital Archives Program, with an emphasis on applying digital archives technologies to the establishment of digital video (and audio) archives and business platforms. “Digital Museum of Taiwan’s Social and Humanities Video Archives” is one of the first of such an application. Through an efficient searching and management software, and an integrated environment and software for producing and managing digital video and audio knowledge, a fully functional digital video archive was established, which has in its database a close to 3,000-hour video footages for public to use free of charge. The experience is now being applied to build a 700-hour high quality digital video archive for the Government Information Office. Television industry in Taiwan started the plan to digitize their valuable news footage and TV programs in 2001. Most television stations outsource their digitization project to commercial companies, who then integrates digital archives software and hardware from commercially available sources. The primary goal of the government-led digital video (and audio) archive programs are to preserve and make available audiovisual records important to Taiwan society. Commercial television stations, on the other hands, are keen in digitizing their video footage and television programs either because of a visionary profitability of such an archive or a simple need to facilitate the use of their news footages in a multi-channel broadcasting environment.
CONTACT INFORMATION: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Technology, Taipei National University of the Arts, August 2002 – Present. Associate Professor, College of General Education, Taipei National University of the Arts, August 2000 – July 2002. President, Dimension Communications, Ltd., August 1990 – July 2000. Associate Professor, Department of Cinema and Theater, Chinese Culture University, August 1992 – July 1993. Lecturer, Department of Cinema and Theater, Chinese Culture University, August 1987 – July 1992. Director/Writer, Kuangchi Program
Service, 1984 – 1987 Lee, Daw-Ming. “The Film Aesthetics of Liu Na-ou and His Documentary Film ‘The Man with the Movie Camera.’” Film Appreciation Journal, Vol. 24, No. 1 (2005). Lee, Daw-Ming. “Liu Pi-Chia, ‘Stone Dream’ and Hu Tai-Li’s Narrative Strategy.” Film Appreciation Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3 (2005). Lee, Daw-Ming. “Assessing the Preservation Value of Film Archives: Using the Building National Film Database as an Example.” Archives Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2005). Lee, Daw-Ming. “Interactivity on Film Narrative.” Taipei Theatre Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2005). Lee, Daw-Ming. “Mediating Culture and History: On the Possibility of Establishing Community History in Museums through the Use of Audiovisual Media.” Museology Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 2 (2003). Lee, Daw-Ming. “A Retrospective of the History of the Development of Video Arts in the West.” Journal of Aesthetic Education, No. 115 (2000).
PUBLISHED WORKS: Lee, Daw-Ming. THE CINEMA OF SATYAJIT RAY, (ed.) published by Chinese Taipei Film Archive, Taipei, 1988. Lee, Daw-Ming. DOCUMENTARY FILM AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN TAIWAN, published by Dimensions Communications, Taipei, 1990. Lee, Daw-Ming. THE BIRTH OF A FILM AUTEUR: AN ANTHOLOGY IN REMEMBRANCE OF FRED TAN, (ed.) published by Chinese Taipei Film Archive, Taipei, 1991. Lee, Daw-Ming. TAIWANESE NEWSREEL AND DOCUMENTARY FILM CATALOGUE (2 Volumes), (co-ed.) published by Chinese Taipei Film Archive, Taipei, 2000. Lee, Daw-Ming. ANTHOLOGY OF TAIWANESE NEWSREEL AND DOCUMENTARY FILM (2 Volumes), (co-ed.) published by Chinese Taipei Film Archive, Taipei, 2000. Lee, Daw-Ming. ORAL HISTORY OF TAIWANESE NEWSREEL AND DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKERS (2 Volumes), (co-ed.) published by Chinese Taipei Film Archive, Taipei, 2000.
FILM, VIDEO AND TELEVISION WORKS: Taiwan People’s History (Producer, 48 mins., 8 episodes, HD television series, 2006), Public Television Service (Taiwan) Shattered Dreams (Director, 100 mins., 16mm, documentary film, 2003), Kuangchi Program Service (Taiwan) Film festivals: The 4th Taipei Film Festival (in competition), the 2nd Taiwan Ethnographic Film Festival, 2004 Taiwan International Documentary Festival (in competition), 2004 Taipei Biennial, the 28th Hong Kong International Film Festival (in competition), the 5th Guangju International Film Festival (Korea) Tsuenu, the Way (Director, 100 mins., 16mm, documentary film, 2001), Dimensions Communications, Ltd. (Taiwan) Film festivals: The 26th Hong Kong International Film Festival, 2002 Taiwan International Documentary Festival Voice of the People (Producer, 57 mins., 6 episodes, Betacam, television series, 2001), Public Television Service (Taiwan) The Last Chieftain (Director, 118 mins 16mm, documentary film, 1999), Dimensions Communications, Ltd. (Taiwan) Film festivals: The 24th Hong Kong International Film Festival, the 1st Taiwan Ethnographic Film Festival Songs of the Mountain, Dances of the Ocean, (Director, 30 mins., Betacam, documentary video, 1998), Kuang-Hwa Communications (Taiwan) Film festivals: 1998 Columbus International Film and Video Festival (Honorable Mention), 1998 Flagstaff International Film and Video Festival (Silver Film and Video Production Award) Water (Producer, 26 mins., 26 episodes, Betacam, television series, 1997), Public Television Service (Taiwan) Film festivals: The 7th Earth Vision The Tokyo Global Environmental Film Festival (Excellence Award), the 1st Sustainable Taiwan Report Awards (1st Prize) Sakuliu (Director, 74 mins., 16mm, documentary film, 1994), Dimensions Communications, Ltd. (Taiwan) Film festivals: The 19th Hong Kong International Film Festival, the 7th Taipei Film Awards (Special Jury Award), 1995 Singapore International Film Festival, 1996 Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, 1996 NETPAC Asian Discovery Selection, 1995 XIXe festival international du film d'art et pedagogique (UNESCO, Paris), the 14th Bilan du Film Ethnographique (Paris) A Drifting Life (Producer, 46 mins., 35mm, fiction film, 1996), Dimensions Communications, Ltd. (Taiwan) Film festivals: 1996 Cannes Film Festival, 1996 Tokyo International Film Festival (Tokyo Silver Prize), 1996 Vancouver International Film Festival (in competition), 1996 Toronto International Film Festival, 1997 Göteborg Film Festival (Sweden), 1997 International Film Festival Rotterdam Voices of Orchid Island (Co-producer, 70 mins., 16mm, documentary film. 1993), Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica Film festivals: TDocumentary Conference '93 (Sydney, Australia), 1993 Golden Horse Award (Best Documentary Film Award), 1994 Treizieme Bilan du Film Ethnographique (Paris), 1994 Gottingen International Ethnographic Film Festival (Germany), the 18th Hong Kong International Film Festival, 1994 Chicago International Film Festival (Silver Plaque Award), 1994 Hawaii International Film Festival Voice of the People (Director, 63 mins., 16mm, documentary film, 1991), Dimensions Communications, Ltd. (Taiwan) Film festivals: 1991 Golden Horse Awards (Best Documentary Film Award), 1991 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (Japan), the 36th Asia-Pacific Film Festival. Songs of Pastaay (Co-director, 60 mins., 16mm, documentary film, 1989), Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica Film festivals: 1990 Houston International Film Festival (Gold Special Jury Award), 1989 Margaret Mead Film Festival, 1990 Neuvieme Bilan du Film Ethnographique (Paris), 1990 5th International Festival of Ethnographical & Anthropological Film (Nuoro, Italy), 1990 Royal Anthropological Institute International Festival of Ethnographic Film (Manchester, U.K.), 1990 7e Festival du Film des Musiques du Monde (Geneve, Switzerland), 1990 4th Parnu International Visual Anthropology Festival (Estonia), 1992 South East Asian Film Festival (Amsterdam), 1992 2nd Amsterdam Conference on Visual Sociology and Anthropology (The Netherland), 1992 Worldmusic in the Picture Film Festival (Amsterdam, The Netherland), 1992 Earth Vision The Tokyo Global Environmental Film Festival (Japan). The Suona Player ( CHUI-KU-CHUI ) (Director, 46 mins., 35mm, fiction film, 1988), Central Motion Pictures Corp. (Taiwan) Film festivals: 1989 Washington, D.C. International Film Festival (U.S.A.), 1988 London Film Festival (U.K.) Beyond the Killing Fields (Director, 48 mins., 16mm, documentary film, 1986), Kuangchi Program Service (Taiwan) Film festivals: The 32nd Asia-Pacific Film Festival (Best Short Film Award), 1986 Golden Horse Award (Best Documentary Film & Best Documentary Film Director Awards) RESEARCH PROJECTS: A Study on the Digitization of Video and Audio Archives, National Archive (Taiwan), March - October 2005. A Study of Value-Added Video Archive, National Digital Archive Project, National Science Council (Taiwan), March 2003 - February 2004. A Study of the Film and Video Collections in Relation to Taiwan in the National Archive and Record Administration, U.S.A., The Preparatory Office of the National Taiwan History Museum, June 2002 - June 2003. Digital Museum of Taiwan’s Social and Humanities Video Archive, National Digital Archive Project, National Science Council (Taiwan), May 2001 - April 2003. Taiwan Area Documentary Film Catalogue Database and Senior Documentary and Newsreel Filmmakers’ Oral History Project, Chinese Taipei Film Archive, 1997 - 2000.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS: Explore the Problems of Digitizing Taiwan Social and Humanities Video Archive. A presentation at the Modern Archive Management Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, September 2, 2004. Establishing a Video-based Database and a Business Platform: Take the Video Database of the Taiwan Social and Humanities Video Archive as an Example. A presentation at the 3rd Workshop on Digital Archives Technologies, Taipei, Taiwan, August 5, 2004. A Study on the Technology of Digital Video Archiving System. A presentation at the 3rd Workshop on Digital Archives Technologies, Taipei, Taiwan, August 5, 2004. A Preliminary Examination on the Aesthetic Issues Regarding Taiwan Documentaries. A presentation at Representing Reality: International Conference on Documentary Aesthetics, 2002 Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Taipei, Taiwan, December 15, 2002.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & OTHER ACTIVITIES: Digital Video and Audio Thematic Group, Content Development Division, National Digital Archive Project, Group Leader (2005-Present) Digital Cultural Content Association, Member (2005-Present) Studies in Documentary Film, Editorial Board Member (2006-Present) Taiwan Association of Visual Ethnography, Board Member (2006-Present)
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