Cahiers de la documentation – Bladen voor documentatie – 2013/1 31 AUDIOVISUAL CITATION A project update Sian BARBER Lecturer in Film, Queen’s University Belfast – School of Creative Arts Leader of the British Universities Film and Video Council steering group on AV citation  Existing referencing systems frequently prove inadequate for the citation of moving image and sound media such as vidcasts, streaming television, sound files, un-catalogued archive footage, amateur content hosted online or non-broadcast radio recordings. A British working group funded by Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and co-ordinated by the British Universities Film and Video Council is investigating this problem. This report by steering group leader Sian Barber provides an update on the project so far.  Bestaande referentiesystemen blijken nogal dikwijls ontoereikend voor bewegende beeldbeschrijving en geluidsmedia zoals videocasts, televisiestreaming, geluidsbestanden, niet gecatalogiseerde archiefreeksen, online ondergebrachte amateuristische inhoud of de niet-uitgezonde radiofonische opnames. Die problematiek wordt namelijk bestudeerd door een Britse werkgroep gesubsidieerd door de Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) en gecoördineerd door de British Universities Film and Video Council. Het rapport, opgemaakt door Sian Barber, verantwoordelijk voor de pilootgroep, voorziet in een intermediair overzicht van dit project.  Les systèmes de notations existants se révèlent inadéquats pour la citation d’images animées et de média sonores tels que les videocasts, la télévision en streaming, les fichiers sonores, les séquences d’archives non- cataloguées, les contenus amateurs hébergés en ligne ou les enregistrements radiophoniques non-diffusés. Un groupe de travail britannique, subsidié par le Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) et coordonné par le British Universities Film and Video Council, étudie ce problème. Le rapport, établi par la responsable du groupe de pilotage, Sian Barber, fournit un bilan intermédiaire de ce projet. Why is citation important? ave you ever wondered how to cite a TV advert? Or extra features on a DVD? What about a scene from a director’s cut feature film or amateur film footage held in an archive? How do you ensure that those writing for your journal provide enough information on the moving image resources they have used? How can you give the best advice to students and how do you make sure that your own sound library or audiovisual archive resources are being correctly cited? The answers could be closer than you think. In an exciting initiative, the British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC) has brought together academics, archive historians, journal editors and researchers to address the complexities of audio visual citation. As part of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)-funded Shared Services project, this working group is currently producing a series of guidelines to enable the citation of a range of audio visual sources for teaching, learning and research. Rigorous enough to provide all the necessary information for referencing purposes and yet flexible enough to allow for the citation of material as diverse as YouTube videos, radio programmes and lecture podcasts, the guidelines will be made freely available in March 2013. These guidelines will not contribute yet another full of referencing standards to the many which already exist. Rather they will deal only with moving image and sound. They are intended to be the first set of guidelines developed exclusively for these media forms and will recognise the individuality of a range of media types, many of which are being increasingly used within teaching and learning. The written word is no longer the only acceptable source to be cited within academic work, and as radio adverts, DVD extra features, recorded interviews, podcasts, streamed material, television programmes, web- based material, amateur film footage and un- catalogued moving image or sound are being increasingly recognised as valid sources for analysis and interrogation, then there is a further need for these sources to be adequately cited. In the era of YouTube videos, off-air recordings and DVD extra features it is crucial for students, researchers and academics to be able to cite these kinds of sources according to what is useful rather than simply title, author, date and publisher. H