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USC ARCHIVE TO INCORPORATE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE TESTIMONIES BY 2015
http://www.reporter.am/go/article/2013-08-02-usc-archive-to-incorporate-armenian-genocide-testimonies-by-2015
Published: Friday August 02, 2013
The late Dr. J. Michael Hagopian. Courtesy image from the USC Shoah
Foundation
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survivor testimonies
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LOS ANGELES - USC Shoah Foundation and the Armenian Film Foundation
have announced on June 19 a new joint goal: By the 100th anniversary
of the Armenian genocide in 2015, they will integrate into the USC
Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive the more than 400 interviews
of survivors of the genocide that were filmed by the late Dr. J.
Michael Hagopian.
The interviews were recorded on 16mm film between the years 1996 and
2005. The survivors and witnesses who make up this rare collection -
all now deceased - were interviewed in 10 different languages and
were between the ages of eight and 29 during the genocide.
The 400 interviews represent the largest archive of filmed Armenian
Genocide interviews in the world, and will add immeasurable content
and context for research and learning when integrated into the Visual
History Archive.
The Armenian Film Foundation is currently transferring the interviews
from 16mm film to preservation-quality digital files (motion JPEG
2000). The files then will be delivered to USC Shoah Foundation,
which will create broadcast-quality and Internet-quality versions of
each interview.
Once digitizing is complete, the indexing process will begin. At the
core of USC Shoah Foundation's indexing system is the one-of-a-kind
Thesaurus, which includes 60,000 terms that describe genocide-related
concepts and experiences. Indexing allows researchers to search the
Visual History Archive by specific terms. The thesaurus has evolved
over time and is expected to continue to evolve as the Armenian
testimonies are indexed.
All non-English-language testimonies will be transcribed, translated
into English, and subtitled for the Visual History Archive.
The majority of testimonies with Armenian survivors were conducted in
Armenian or English, but numerous other languages spoken by survivors
include Arabic, Greek, Turkish, and Kurdish. All non-English-language
testimonies will be transcribed, translated into English, and subtitled
for the Visual History Archive. Once the testimonies are indexed,
USC Shoah Foundation's education staff will incorporate them into
existing materials and build educations programs specifically around
the Armenian collection.
Dr. J. Michael Hagopian was an Emmy-nominated filmmaker who made
70 documentaries about the Armenian Genocide and won more than 160
awards for his work. He was a survivor of the genocide that killed
an estimated 1.5 million people in Turkey from 1915-23. In 1979, he
founded the Armenian Film Foundation, a Thousand Oaks, California,
based nonprofit dedicated to documenting Armenian heritage. Hagopian
died in 2010 at age 97.
Original at:
http://sfi.usc.edu/news/2013/06/armenian-genocide-testimonies-be-incorporated-usc-shoah-foundation-visual-history#sthash.jRsW92b3.dpuf
From: A. Papazian
http://www.reporter.am/go/article/2013-08-02-usc-archive-to-incorporate-armenian-genocide-testimonies-by-2015
Published: Friday August 02, 2013
The late Dr. J. Michael Hagopian. Courtesy image from the USC Shoah
Foundation
Related Articles USC, Armenian Film Foundation agree to archive 400
survivor testimonies
UCLA hosts conference on oral history of the Armenian Genocide
LOS ANGELES - USC Shoah Foundation and the Armenian Film Foundation
have announced on June 19 a new joint goal: By the 100th anniversary
of the Armenian genocide in 2015, they will integrate into the USC
Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive the more than 400 interviews
of survivors of the genocide that were filmed by the late Dr. J.
Michael Hagopian.
The interviews were recorded on 16mm film between the years 1996 and
2005. The survivors and witnesses who make up this rare collection -
all now deceased - were interviewed in 10 different languages and
were between the ages of eight and 29 during the genocide.
The 400 interviews represent the largest archive of filmed Armenian
Genocide interviews in the world, and will add immeasurable content
and context for research and learning when integrated into the Visual
History Archive.
The Armenian Film Foundation is currently transferring the interviews
from 16mm film to preservation-quality digital files (motion JPEG
2000). The files then will be delivered to USC Shoah Foundation,
which will create broadcast-quality and Internet-quality versions of
each interview.
Once digitizing is complete, the indexing process will begin. At the
core of USC Shoah Foundation's indexing system is the one-of-a-kind
Thesaurus, which includes 60,000 terms that describe genocide-related
concepts and experiences. Indexing allows researchers to search the
Visual History Archive by specific terms. The thesaurus has evolved
over time and is expected to continue to evolve as the Armenian
testimonies are indexed.
All non-English-language testimonies will be transcribed, translated
into English, and subtitled for the Visual History Archive.
The majority of testimonies with Armenian survivors were conducted in
Armenian or English, but numerous other languages spoken by survivors
include Arabic, Greek, Turkish, and Kurdish. All non-English-language
testimonies will be transcribed, translated into English, and subtitled
for the Visual History Archive. Once the testimonies are indexed,
USC Shoah Foundation's education staff will incorporate them into
existing materials and build educations programs specifically around
the Armenian collection.
Dr. J. Michael Hagopian was an Emmy-nominated filmmaker who made
70 documentaries about the Armenian Genocide and won more than 160
awards for his work. He was a survivor of the genocide that killed
an estimated 1.5 million people in Turkey from 1915-23. In 1979, he
founded the Armenian Film Foundation, a Thousand Oaks, California,
based nonprofit dedicated to documenting Armenian heritage. Hagopian
died in 2010 at age 97.
Original at:
http://sfi.usc.edu/news/2013/06/armenian-genocide-testimonies-be-incorporated-usc-shoah-foundation-visual-history#sthash.jRsW92b3.dpuf
From: A. Papazian