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    USC ARCHIVE TO INCORPORATE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE TESTIMONIES BY 2015

    http://www.reporter.am/go/article/2013-08-02-usc-archive-to-incorporate-armenian-genocide-testimonies-by-2015
    Published: Friday August 02, 2013

    The late Dr. J. Michael Hagopian. Courtesy image from the USC Shoah
    Foundation

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    LOS ANGELES - USC Shoah Foundation and the Armenian Film Foundation
    have announced on June 19 a new joint goal: By the 100th anniversary
    of the Armenian genocide in 2015, they will integrate into the USC
    Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive the more than 400 interviews
    of survivors of the genocide that were filmed by the late Dr. J.

    Michael Hagopian.

    The interviews were recorded on 16mm film between the years 1996 and
    2005. The survivors and witnesses who make up this rare collection -
    all now deceased - were interviewed in 10 different languages and
    were between the ages of eight and 29 during the genocide.

    The 400 interviews represent the largest archive of filmed Armenian
    Genocide interviews in the world, and will add immeasurable content
    and context for research and learning when integrated into the Visual
    History Archive.

    The Armenian Film Foundation is currently transferring the interviews
    from 16mm film to preservation-quality digital files (motion JPEG
    2000). The files then will be delivered to USC Shoah Foundation,
    which will create broadcast-quality and Internet-quality versions of
    each interview.

    Once digitizing is complete, the indexing process will begin. At the
    core of USC Shoah Foundation's indexing system is the one-of-a-kind
    Thesaurus, which includes 60,000 terms that describe genocide-related
    concepts and experiences. Indexing allows researchers to search the
    Visual History Archive by specific terms. The thesaurus has evolved
    over time and is expected to continue to evolve as the Armenian
    testimonies are indexed.

    All non-English-language testimonies will be transcribed, translated
    into English, and subtitled for the Visual History Archive.

    The majority of testimonies with Armenian survivors were conducted in
    Armenian or English, but numerous other languages spoken by survivors
    include Arabic, Greek, Turkish, and Kurdish. All non-English-language
    testimonies will be transcribed, translated into English, and subtitled
    for the Visual History Archive. Once the testimonies are indexed,
    USC Shoah Foundation's education staff will incorporate them into
    existing materials and build educations programs specifically around
    the Armenian collection.

    Dr. J. Michael Hagopian was an Emmy-nominated filmmaker who made
    70 documentaries about the Armenian Genocide and won more than 160
    awards for his work. He was a survivor of the genocide that killed
    an estimated 1.5 million people in Turkey from 1915-23. In 1979, he
    founded the Armenian Film Foundation, a Thousand Oaks, California,
    based nonprofit dedicated to documenting Armenian heritage. Hagopian
    died in 2010 at age 97.

    Original at:
    http://sfi.usc.edu/news/2013/06/armenian-genocide-testimonies-be-incorporated-usc-shoah-foundation-visual-history#sthash.jRsW92b3.dpuf




    From: A. Papazian
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