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Partner with XFR

XFR Collective partners with individuals and organizations to provide low-cost digitization and to develop sustainable models for managing and providing access to audiovisual materials.

We seek partners in three core areas:

  1. Digital Preservation and Transfer.
  2. Education.
  3. Research and Cultural Engagement.

What we don’t do. We are not a video digitization vendor. We offer small-scale digitization, consulting, and educational services within a partnership model. If you are looking for a vendor to digitize your analog tapes or film, we suggest you look elsewhere. (We can provide recommended vendors upon request.)

For more information, please review our How We Work page.

Transfer Partnerships

We are looking to partner with organizations and individuals who possess analog video materials in need of transfer. We usually make 6-month-long agreements with these partners, during which time we transfer 6 tapes for a nominal fee of 150.00. We are not a repository and put all digitized materials online on the Internet Archive (IA).

If this looks like something you might be interested in, please fill out this Google Form.

Research, Education, and Cultural Engagement

We are looking to partner with organizations and individuals who interested in collaborating in research, education, and cultural engagement partnership could include workshops, presentations, screenings, or digital preservation consultation work.

To get a sense of the types of activities we have done in the past, see our “Events” page on our website: https://xfrcollective.wordpress.com/events/

We typically work with individuals and organizations that are located in New York City or close by, however we are interested in working with other organizations that can provide financial resources to help facilitate travel, and have done so in the past.

If this looks like something you might be interested in, please fill out this Google Form.

General Inquiry Form

For general inquiries or advice, please complete the form below. We will do our best to respond to your inquiry within 2 weeks — but please be patient with us.

XFR members are all volunteers with demanding full-time jobs and other responsibilities.