Digital archives are essential for sharing information and encouraging its preservation, especially for sound. Unlike photography, text, or visual art, it’s a medium that requires a form of listening ...

Endangered collections, Cold War radio, metadata, indigenous/First Nations radio, public broadcasting and feminist broadcasts were a few of the topics broached at the second Radio Preservation Task ...

Brett Moss is gear & technology editor. “Digital technology alone will not ensure the preservation and survival of the nation’s sound history. So said a press release outlining the results of a recent ...

The Swiss National Sound Archives is Switzerland's official depository of audio records. Founded by law in 1987 as a private foundation working in close collaboration with the Swiss National Library ...

Physicist Carl Haber blended art and physics yesterday afternoon, as he discussed revolutionary techniques that can pull sound from fragile and damaged recordings without touching them. Haber, the ...

Last year, the British Library began the "Save our Sounds" project, with the aim of accelerating the digitisation of millions upon millions of lost audio recordings held in its vast archive. The ...

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The Library of Congress has competed its annual selection of 50 sound recordings for the National Recording Registry. But the task of preserving the likes of Martha and the Vandellas' 1964 “Dancing in ...

“We started changing the tapes eight or ten years ago. The first transfers we made were all to DAT. We found that DAT started deteriorating so we moved them to CDs. We didn’t think that was sufficient ...

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia has selected data management software company Arcitecta’s Mediaflux platform to serve as its central Digital Asset Management System (DAMS). Arcitecta ...

When recorded sound was in its infancy, more than 150 years ago, inventors still hadn't answered what was, to them, a fundamental question: What does sound look like? They knew what sound sounded like ...

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