Share that Knowledge!
Finding Strategies for Passing on Knowledge Across Generations of Audiovisual Archivists
The project "Share that Knowledge! Finding Strategies for Passing on Knowledge Across Generations of Audiovisual Archivists" aimed to research and develop strategies and methods of unlocking, articulating and sustaining the knowledge that audiovisual archivists hold about the collections they work with. Through research, presentations and publications, the project connected existing ideas and fostered discussion about the topic of knowledge transfer within the field of audiovisual archiving.
A working group consisting of colleagues from 13 audiovisual archives around the world, used qualitative research methods to study knowledge transfer within their organizations. They looked at which knowledge is endangered, what the main challenges are in passing on this knowledge, and which methods of sharing knowledge are already being used.
The outcome of the project is a publication, in which concrete methods and tools for knowledge transfer within audiovisual archives are described.