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Here's something that drives me nuts: These are two library catalog displays for Charles Darwin's "The origin of species". One shows ...
We hear a lot about “high-res audio” these days. Sound digitized at 192,000 samples per second must be a lot better than the usual 44,000, right? Well, maybe not. We can hear sounds onl…
Sam Brylawski, Maya Lerman, Robin Pike, Kathlin Smith, editors May 2015. 240 pp. $30 (print version) ISBN 978-1-932326-50-5 CLIR pub 164 PDF Download of Report >> Commissioned for and sponsored by the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress. Copublished by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, the Council on Library and Information Resources, Read More
Beginner's Guide To Turntables - Home Listening Edition Putting together a turntable setup is a simple process; however, there are several things you should know before purchasing your setup. This Guide To Turntable Setups will explain: the key components, the different setup configurations, and the most commonly asked
Digital collection of 6,000 cylinder records from 1895-1920s with downloadable and streaming audio held by the Department of Special Collection, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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The following is a guest post by Karen Cariani, AAPB Project Director and Director WGBH Media Library and Archive, Alan Gevinson, AAPB Project Director and Special Assistant to the Packard Campus Chief, and Casey Davis, Project Manager, American Archive of Public Broadcasting, WGBH Educational Foundation. The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) Project Team at […]
In Celebration of World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, I want to offer you a sneak peak at a new tool we have developed and are readying for release. This tool will enable a user friendly way for non-archivists or non-digital preservation specialists to safely transfer born digital data to the arch
The digital preservation community is a connected and collaborative one. I first heard about the Europe-based PREFORMA project last summer at a Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative meeting when we were discussing the Digital File Formats for Videotape Reformatting comparison matrix. My interest was piqued because I heard about their incorporation of FFV1 and Matroska, […]
MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files
We are pleased to announce the release of AVCC, an open-source web application for the rapid inventory of physical film, video, and audio materials. Developed with funding from the Library of Congress’ National Recording Preservation Board – in addition to funding support from the Metropolitan New York Library Resource Council and New York State Documentary Heritage Program for previous versions of the tool – AVCC provides a series of inventory templates and quantitative reports that promote simple and fast documentation and analysis of collections of audiovisual materials.
Oscar Grady Public Library’s Digital Media Conversion Lab is now open to the public! The new Digital Lab provides all of the equipment and training necessary to view and digitally preserve ph…
Best explanation of sound copyright I've yet seen.
Post by Laura Schnitker, University of Maryland, College Park On March 26, 1971, an up-and-coming folk singer named Don McLean sat down for an interview a...
Sound is not permanent, and much of the recorded recent history of humanity is currently disintegrating. Robert Barry reports from the British Library Sound Archive and Internet Archive to find out what's being done to preserve these audio records, and explains what you can do to help
It may not have taken off, but the Tefifon is an interesting artifact: the guts of each cartridge are spooled tape, but they're not magnetic. Instead they're plastic with etched grooves, just like vinyl.
Preserve old media formats with audio, document and video transfer services from Holder Printworks in Madison, WI. We serve the local community for a personal touch.