Archaic Sounds Reach Modern Ears - The University of California at Santa Barbara library has created an online audio time machine by archiving some of the oldest sounds ever recorded.
Digital Preservation: Recording the Recoding. The Documentary Strategy - This article from the 2002 Ars Electronica Festival discusses documentation, meta-data, contextualization, and guaranteed long term access to that documentation of electronic/digital objects.
Digital Star Dust: The Hoagy Carmichael Collection at Indiana University - This article discusses the project by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Indiana University Digital Library Program and Archives of Traditional Music to preserve and digitize the university's extensive Hoagy Carmichael collections. The goal of the project was to preserve thousands of items, including sound recordings, photographs, sheet music, lyric sheets, and more, pertaining to the life and work of this master of the American popular song. This paper describes some of the project's challenges and their resolution, along with a brief discussion of remaining issues. 2000
Digitizing the World’s Largest Collection of Natural Sounds: Key Factors to Consider when Transferring Analog-Based Audio Materials to Digital Formats - This article from RLG DigiNews (February 15, 2004, Volume 8, Number 1) discusses the digitization of the Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds (MLNS) at Cornell University.
E-MELD School of Best Practice: From Cassette to the Web: Sáliba - This page from E-MELD presents a case study of preserving cassette recordings digitally and making them available via the Internet.
The Jack Mullin/Bill Palmer Tape Restoration Project - This article by Richard L. Hess, found in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, is a technical brief about a project to restore the oldest tape reels in the U.S.
The Syracuse University Library Radius Project - This article in First Monday discusses the Radius Project: Development of a non-destructive playback system for cylinder recordings at Syracuse University Library's Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive. 2003
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