Wisconsin Film Nitrate Project – Rosa Gaiarsa Interview
Wisconsin Film Nitrate Project - Rosa Gaiarsa interview
File: 10-3-RosaGaiarsa.pdfDocuments Page
Wisconsin Nitrate Film Project – Annotated Bibliography
The bibliography thus contains a diverse set of sources, including peer-reviewed, trade and popular press articles; historical accounts; literature reviews; websites and forum postings; conference proceedings; practitioner handbooks; safety standards; and government publications.
File: WCFTR-Nitrate-Film-Project.pdfWisconsin Nitrate Film Project – NEH Grant Proposal
Dr. Heckman devised the Wisconsin Nitrate Film Project to help address these inconsistencies, and she submitted a proposal for a Preservation and Access Research and Development Grant to the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2011.
File: 2-4-NEH-Grant.pdfWisconsin Nitrate Film Project Survey
In the fall of 2013, the conservation and history groups created a survey to examine the gap between prescriptive regulations and actual practice among archives holding nitrate film collections.
File: 9-1-Survey_Questions.pdfWe developed questionnaires that focused on determining:
- the type of archival institution
- the size of the nitrate collection at that institution
- the institution’s day–to–day practices for nitrate storage, handling, and shipping
- the knowledge or experience of nitrate held by that institution’s personnel.
Read more about the project here.
Wisconsin Nitrate Film Project White Paper
The Wisconsin Nitrate Film Project’s final white paper, which was submitted to the NEH in December 2015, offers the full and definitive account of our undertakings
File: 1-7-Final_White_Paper.pdfWisconsin Nitrate Film Project- Survey Respondents
We surveyed U.S. state government and territorial archives, which may hold some nitrate film motion pictures or photographic negatives within their larger collections of government records. Presumably, these institutions may have fewer resources to devote to the special concerns of nitrate film. This constituent population was represented by members of the Council of State Archivists (CoSA).
File: 9-2-Survey_Respondents.pdfWisconsin Nitrate Film Project- Survey Results
We surveyed U.S. state government and territorial archives, which may hold some nitrate film motion pictures or photographic negatives within their larger collections of government records. Presumably, these institutions may have fewer resources to devote to the special concerns of nitrate film. This constituent population was represented by members of the Council of State Archivists (CoSA).
Our results did highlight the different levels of experience and knowledge between these two groups, and suggest that the non-specialist archival community represented by CoSA would particularly benefit from educational and funding opportunities to assist in caring for their nitrate holdings.
File: 9-3-Survey_Results.pdf