Topics to be Addressed

Topics to be Addressed

⦿ Understanding the Risk Landscape: Deterioration mechanisms: magnetic tape, optical media, film, lacquer disc, born-digital formats

⦿ Risk Identification & Assessment: Conducting collection surveys and condition assessments

⦿ Prioritisation matrices: combining significance, uniqueness, and vulnerability scores

⦿ Safeguarding Strategies: Preventive conservation: environmental controls, packaging standards, and handling protocols

⦿ Managing Risks Across the Collection Lifecycle: Policy development, institutional risk management frameworks, and governance

⦿ Standards, Ethics & International Collaboration: IASA Technical Committee Guidelines and TC-06 on the safekeeping of AV materials

⦿ Ethical considerations: community consultation, repatriation, and indigenous collections

⦿ Integrating risk management into acquisition, cataloguing, and access workflows