Legal Deposit of Legal Deposit of Broadcast Material – Broadcast Material –

the Swedish the Swedish ExperienceExperience

Riga 2004-10-01

Sven Allerstrand

History of Legal Deposit in History of Legal Deposit in SwedenSweden

Since 1661 for printed materialThe Royal Library and six university

libraries(Electronic documents - web harvesting) 1979 for audiovisual mediaThe National Archive of Recorded Sound

and Moving Images (SLBA)

Some basic statementsSome basic statements

Sound and moving images are important parts of the national heritage

AV-media should be available for academic research under the same conditions as printed publications

It is a national interest to preserve this part of the national cultural heritage and to make it available

Facts about SLBAFacts about SLBA

Founded 1979 Integrated National AV-archive Based on Legal Deposit Staff numbers 70 42 million SEK (4 million EUR) annual budget Under the Ministry of Education www.ljudochbildarkivet.se

Our main tasksOur main tasks

To improve access to information within academic research and to increase the availibility of Swedish recorded sound and moving images

National responsibility for preservation of the audiovisual media

General Principles for General Principles for Legal DepositLegal Deposit

National production

Published material

Completeness

No selection

Legal Deposit of Broadcast Legal Deposit of Broadcast materialmaterial

Both Swedish and foreign material

Based on ”Reference Recordings”

Only recordings with a special documentary value could be kept for posterity

Reference RecordingsReference Recordings

Made for other purposes

The total transmission

Leaves selection to a second phase

The SLBA has not the authority to prescribe technical standard and quality of the deposited material

Total deliveryTotal delivery

Television

Radio

Film/video

Phonograms

Multimedia

A selectionA selection

Private local radio and TV

Talking magazines

The collection is growing…The collection is growing…

…with 1000 shelf metres or 60 000 (radio and TV 45 000) objects or 600 000 playing hours every year

The total collection is estimated to 4.5 million recorded hours

(1.2 million TV and 2.9 million radio)

Photo: Olof Thiel

AccessAccess

The whole collection is available for research purposes

A smaller part is available to the general public

5000 copies – 6000 visitors / year

… … for what purposesfor what purposes

Film studies 30%Media studies 17%Musicology 6%Other humanities 26%Social science 19%Natural science 2%

Access experiencesAccess experiences

Increasing demand for audiovisual material from researchers, scholars and from the general public

Moving images and especially Television is the most requested material

Technical issuesTechnical issues

Recordings on more than 50 different technical systems in the vaults

A lot of material of low technical quality (reference recordings)

Migration of analogue recordings to digital systems

Automated digital mass storage system

Co-operation - a keywordCo-operation - a keyword

            

Agreements with andAgreements with and

Reference recordings

Interlending

Catalogue information

Deselection

Special projects

National Preservation PlanNational Preservation Plan

SLBASVTSwedish Film InstituteNational ArchivesMuseumsResearchersFilm producers

A governmental commissionA governmental commission

Report delivered May 2004

Bevara ljud och rörlig bild (SOU 2004:53)

Main proposals in briefMain proposals in brief

Selection principles

– ”unique” material

– Swedish is more important than foreign material

SLBA shall start to make its own recordings of som radio and TV-material

A major migration project

Legal deposit of electronic Legal deposit of electronic materialmaterial

E-plikt (SOU 1998:111)KB – ett nav i kunskapssamhället (SOU

2003:129) Response from the government in

NovemberWorking group KB/SLBA/the Ministry

ConclusionsConclusions

Broadcast material must be considered as an important part of the national and world heritage

Legal deposit is the best means available to ensure that it is systematically preserved and made available for research and study

A legal deposit system must take into account that AV-media – and especially radio and television – are different from books and printed material

Volume and costs are major problems Co-operation on a national and international level is

necessary

Thank you for your attention!Thank you for your attention!