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Mjøndalen IF Case Study

Being proud of its history is for us a strength that gives us energy to continue the development of the club in step with the wishes and needs of society and the athletes. The story tells of “big dreams for a small vil lage” and 110 years of history how the club with small funds has managed to create sports history. “ Arild Iversen - Chairman of Mjøndalen IF,

CHALLENGE

teresting photo collection describing its 100+ year histo ry. Together with adjacent metadata the information was normalised to preservation file formats, before securely stored on the long-term storage medium, piqlFilm, pro viding the assurance of authentic data storage without the risk of data corruption or loss. The data was stored as digital time capsule and deposited to the Arctic World Archive by the current chairman of Mjøndalen IF, Arild Iversen, during a ceremony in Octo ber 2020. An important and proud moment as the first sporting association team to deposit their history into the vault. ‘It felt almost reverent that we, as the first sports associa tion in the world, had the opportunity to take care of our history in this way. In company with, among others, the National Museum, UNICEF and other national and inter national cultural institutions,’ he said. ‘Being proud of its history is for us a strength that gives us energy to continue the development of the club in step with the wishes and needs of society and the ath letes. The story tells of “big dreams for a small village” and 110 years of history how the club with small funds has managed to create sports history.’

To celebrate its 110th year anniversary, the organisation decided to secure its history in a digital form that could be preserved and accessed into the future. This history had been collected over decades to and published in three insightful books going through the lifetime of the organisation, as well as a wide range of images and video clips from numerous different sources. Having felt the risk of losing valuable content due to hard drive hiccups and lack of access to the original master files, the club quickly understood the potential risk of losing their data. The challenge was to effectively organ ise and catalogue the information, while finding a preser vation method that would ensure the information would remain safe and accessible for generations to come. With the support of Piql, Mjøndalen IF undertook a pro cess to structure its archival content, decide on an ap praisal process of the most valuable items and to under take a digitisation process for these objects in-house. The goal was to choose the most valuable history for preservation to ensure it would survive for at least anoth er 110 years (the current age of the organisation) in the Arctic World Archive. The process identified a key list of books, images and videos that document the story of Mjøndalen in both a historical and contemporary manner. The files included video clips from the television series “Alle gutta”, three volumes of an anniversary book collection as well as in SOLUTION

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