Multimedia archivists hold conference to document, preserve history
It's considered a major milestone in the organization and today the Southeast Asia-Pacific Audio Visual Archive Association held its 20th conference here on Guam. The organization aims to preserve the region's rich audio visual heritage and today focused on issues that audiovisual archives are facing.
Ethnographer and oral historian Rlene Santos Steffy delivered today's keynote address, saying, "We collect people's memories, their experiences, their opinions that make up the living experience, that is what is missing in traditional historiography. They can tell you what happened, where it happened and they might even to tell to whom it affected, but it will never ever tell you the personal insight of the individuals who were affected by what happened. That's 's the story."
With over 34 years of media experience, she told the organization that oral history not only gives hidden people a face, a voice and a place in history but provides a new insight missing in traditional historiography.
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