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SPIELBERG'S FOUNDATION TO DIGITIZE NEARLY 400 ARMENIAN GENOCIDE FILMS
epress.am
03.28.2012
"Don't Let Their Voices Be Forgotten" is the message that the USC
Institute of Armenian Studies' Leadership Council is sending as it
invites a cross section of highly respected community leaders and
benefactors to a gala banquet on Apr. 15, in honor of the USC Shoah
Foundation Institute for championing the Armenian Genocide Digitization
Project, Asbarez.com reports.
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute, established by Steven Spielberg
in 1994, has nearly 52,000 video testimonies of survivors and other
witnesses of the Holocaust in its Visual History Archive. The Institute
is beginning to work with partners around the world to expand its
archive with existing and new testimony collections from survivors
and witnesses of other genocides. The J. Michael Hagopian/Armenian
Film Foundation archive of nearly 400 filmed survivor and eyewitness
testimonies will be the first collection in the Armenian Genocide
Digitization Project.
The goal of the USC Institute of Armenian Studies' Leadership Council
is to bring together digital copies of all of the collections
of interviews with Armenian Genocide survivors and eyewitnesses,
essentially creating what may become the largest archive of Armenian
Genocide eyewitness interviews.
According to Director of the Yerevan-based Armenian Genocide
Museum-Institute Hayk Demoyan, the Armenian Genocide Digitization
Project was supposed to be implemented last year, but the amount
of money needed for the project was not raised and the project was
postponed, Yerkir Media reports.
"As for the issue, I have a dual approach: the intention to digitize
and save all the documents from destruction is positive, but, on the
other hand, we have to approach this issue carefully since we don't
yet know whether all the documents will be digitized and whether
after being digitalized they will be accessible to the museum and
everyone free of charge," he said, adding that he is impressed by
the Foundation's technical outfits, which, he said, is the only
organization in the world to have such an extent of such modern
equipment.
epress.am
03.28.2012
"Don't Let Their Voices Be Forgotten" is the message that the USC
Institute of Armenian Studies' Leadership Council is sending as it
invites a cross section of highly respected community leaders and
benefactors to a gala banquet on Apr. 15, in honor of the USC Shoah
Foundation Institute for championing the Armenian Genocide Digitization
Project, Asbarez.com reports.
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute, established by Steven Spielberg
in 1994, has nearly 52,000 video testimonies of survivors and other
witnesses of the Holocaust in its Visual History Archive. The Institute
is beginning to work with partners around the world to expand its
archive with existing and new testimony collections from survivors
and witnesses of other genocides. The J. Michael Hagopian/Armenian
Film Foundation archive of nearly 400 filmed survivor and eyewitness
testimonies will be the first collection in the Armenian Genocide
Digitization Project.
The goal of the USC Institute of Armenian Studies' Leadership Council
is to bring together digital copies of all of the collections
of interviews with Armenian Genocide survivors and eyewitnesses,
essentially creating what may become the largest archive of Armenian
Genocide eyewitness interviews.
According to Director of the Yerevan-based Armenian Genocide
Museum-Institute Hayk Demoyan, the Armenian Genocide Digitization
Project was supposed to be implemented last year, but the amount
of money needed for the project was not raised and the project was
postponed, Yerkir Media reports.
"As for the issue, I have a dual approach: the intention to digitize
and save all the documents from destruction is positive, but, on the
other hand, we have to approach this issue carefully since we don't
yet know whether all the documents will be digitized and whether
after being digitalized they will be accessible to the museum and
everyone free of charge," he said, adding that he is impressed by
the Foundation's technical outfits, which, he said, is the only
organization in the world to have such an extent of such modern
equipment.