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Sandra J. Aguilar |
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Bio: Sandra Joy Lee Aguilar oversees metadata and indexing at University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education, an online educational resource which showcases over 56,000 video life histories of individuals who survived the Holocaust or other genocides. She works with a global multilingual staff of indexers and archivists who use a custom thesaurus to apply terms to one minute video segments which provide deep scholarly access to the stories of survivors. Prior to joining the Institute in 2014, Aguilar worked as Digital Curator at CBS Digital where she was responsible for visual effects archiving and metadata management for television programs such Star Trek, The Next Generation (1987-1994). From 2007 to 2012, Aguilar worked as Director of Archives for USC School of Cinematic Arts' Warner Bros. and Moving Image Archives where she managed Warner Bros’ archives of historical studio memos, scripts, still photographs, music scores, patents, animation backgrounds, and production records. Clients included the Art Director’s Guild, Humphrey Bogart Estate, Cinémathèque Française, the FBI, John Wilson Orchestra, National Park Service, National Portrait Gallery, and Warner Home Video. Previously, she worked as Media Librarian in the visual effects industry at Industrial Light & Magic in San Rafael, California from 1997-2005 where she served as the company's first archivist for a 150,000-item post-production visual effects archive and reference library. She and her team provided image reference to artists and external access to ILM’s visual effects shots and elements. She managed processing and database tools for archival collections acquired from Production at the close of each production and worked with media-creating departments to develop standards for media deposit. Types of media included final shots on video, models and turntables on digital data tape, production paperwork (Editorial Bibles, storyboards, production notes), and film finals. Special projects included: working on the development team to create a stock element library and working with architects to design the ILM Media Library built at the Presidio in San Francisco. She was a member of the HD pipeline development team during the move from analog to digital production. Projects included Star Wars Episode I (1999), Pirates of the Caribbean (2003) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). She received a film credit on the 2000 feature, Space Cowboys, for Video Library and NASA Research. Aguilar is a graduate of the Film Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara, now Film and Media Studies, and holds a Masters in Library and Information Science from UCLA. She collects mechanical movie projectors and is a member of the Tech History Subcommittee of the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. |
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