Understanding and preserving audio collections - Preservation Advisory Centre 3-day Course

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Preservation Advisory Centre 3-day Course

22-24 October 2012

The British Library Centre for Conservation
96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
United Kingdom Location Details

Taking you from ‘what is it?’ through collection management issues to preservation strategies, this three day course provides an overview of managing and preserving audio material, with an emphasis on digitisation for preservation and access.

The course is aimed at people with responsibility for creating, managing and using audio collections. Whilst no hands-on experience is necessary, it is useful to have identified a collection to which the theory and practical elements of this course will be applied in order to get the most from it. The training is provided by members of the British Library Sound & Vision department and is structured to allow for plenty of informal discussion and information-sharing. A short pre-course reading list will be circulated to participants in advance. Places are limited to 20. Feedback from last year's course.

Programme

Monday 22 October 10.30 - 16.30

Introduction

What do you have, what are the issues, what should you do?

Practical guide to analogue audio

 

History of analogue carriers and technology

 

Information on care and handling

 

Hands-on demonstrations of correct replay techniques

Tuesday 23 October 10.00 - 16.30

Digital audio demystified

 

Overview of digital audio theory

 

Generic digital issues (including error correction and checksums)

 

History of digital audio sources

 

Practical information on extracting digital audio from different media

Collection level overviews

 

Compiling an inventory

 

Prioritization and selection

 

Risk assessment

 

Out-source, or in-house? Working with service providers

 

Costs associated with managing digital collections

Wednesday 24 October 10.00 - 15.00

Working with audio files

 

Procedures for creating, working with, and safely storing audio files (including file naming, verification and technical metadata)

 

Introduction to Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs)

Archival principles for audiovisual material

 

An overview based on the core reference work
Safeguarding the audio heritage: ethics, principles and preservation strategy

Final round-up and Q&A


Link: http://www.bl.uk/blpac/audio.html

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