La Digitalizadora de la Memoria Colectiva. Community culture for the safeguarding of audiovisual social memory

Abstract

La Digitalizadora de la Memoria Colectiva is a community initiative for the digitization, description, dissemination and conservation of audiovisual memory recorded in analog formats by social groups in the last third of the 20th century. Its team of volunteers is made up of audiovisual, archives, IT and citizen participation professionals. Together they have developed a methodology to accompany those who treasure these audiovisual documents in the task of their preservation. The recovered documents are published openly and dissemination activities are carried out with the aim of reinforcing the cohesion of these groups. This article raises the main risks for the conservation of analogue audiovisual social heritage in Spain. Describes how La Digitizadora’s methodology aims to contribute to responding to this problem from the community culture and reflects on the forms of relationship of this initiative with public and private audiovisual custody institutions.