Grants and Contributions:
Title:
Inuit Broadcasting Corporation Iqqaumavavut: "We Remember Them" Archival Project
Agreement Number:
LHOV-05-027
Agreement Value:
$82,200.00
Agreement Date:
May 21, 2024 - Mar 31, 2025
Description:
The Inuit Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) undertakes the annual cataloguing and digitization of as many analog tapes as possible. Analog content is digitized to hard drives for real-time viewing, describing, and presenting on publicly accessible web platforms. Since the project’s inception in 2014, IBC has digitized over 3 200 analog tapes, mostly in U-Matic format. For the 2024–2025 fiscal year, the project’s main goal is to catalogue and digitize another 200 Betacam tapes.
Organization:
Library and Archives Canada
Expected Results:
Two hundred IBC broadcast program tapes sorted, catalogued and shipped for digitizing
Digitized tapes viewed in real time, described, edited and uploaded for hosting on SSi Canada, IBC's Facebook, YouTube and website
Renewal of annual CatDV software license
Location:
Iqualuit, Ontario, CA X0A3H0
Reference Number:
129-2024-2025 Q1-LHOV-05-027
Agreement Type:
Contribution
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Type:
Indigenous recipients
Recipient's Legal Name:
Inuit Broadcasting Corporation
Program:
Listen, Hear Our Voices
Program Purpose:
Listen, Hear Our Voices supports First Nations, Inuit, and Métis governments and non-profit organizations in: 1) digitizing existing documentary heritage related to Indigenous languages and cultures, and 2) building the skills, knowledge and resources to do this work in their communities.