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ITMA is delighted to announce the awarding of Community Heritage Grant Scheme 2024 funding from The Heritage Council of Ireland for its project “VHS to DigiBeta: Preserving Ireland’s Intangible Cultural Heritage through Video Digitisation.”
In March 2024 ITMA applied to the Heritage Council of Ireland for funding under their Community Heritage Grant Scheme.
“The aim of this scheme is to support projects that improve access and inclusion to heritage sites; that apply good heritage practice to the management of places, collections, habitats and species, objects (including buildings and monuments) or intangible heritage. The scheme also supports the purchase of essential equipment. This scheme is intended to enable communities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to continue their work in this area or to start new initiatives.” – Heritage Council, 2024
Project Aim
This Project supports Ireland’s intangible cultural heritage by obtaining state-of-the-art video digitisation equipment and software. This will allow the playback & digitisation of 1,000s of obsolete and at-risk video recordings in ITMA.
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Supported by the Heritage Council under the Community Heritage Grant Scheme 2024
