Title: OCLC/Safe Sound Archive Partnership
1OCLC/Safe Sound Archive Partnership
2ALA 2005 Midwinter Announcement
We would like to announce the formation of a
partnership between Safe Sound Archive and OCLC
to provide cost-effective services to audio
collections, including digital reformatting,
archiving and improved access through Open
WorldCat. Using our combined expertise, this
partnership will allow for a convenient,
integrated solution through either OCLC or Safe
Sound Archive.
3The OCLC/Safe Sound Archive Partnership can
assist in virtually all stages of collections
care management
4Located in Philadelphia
Visitors Welcome!
5Services
6Archival Storage
7Services
- Archival Storage
- Conservation
8Conservation
9Services
- Archival Storage
- Conservation
- Preservation/Digitization
10Preservation/Digitization
11Services
- Archival Storage
- Conservation
- Preservation/Digitization
- Restoration
12Restoration
- Remove Hum
- Reduce Hiss
- Improve intelligibility
- Improve compression for Web delivery
- Remaster for commercial release
13Services
- Archival Storage
- Conservation
- Preservation/Digitization
- Restoration
- Consulting
14Consulting
- Project Design
- RfP Writing
- Preservation Studio Design Equipping
- Preservation Assessments
15How the partnership serves you
- One-stop shopping
- Better integration
- Blind to user
- Rethinking the approach to preservation
16Collections-oriented PreservationDigitization
Processing
17Collections of different media
18Old Selection Criteria
Media are separated from related
materials Discontinuity in collections processing
19New Selection Criteria
Organizes work around the collection Creates
continuity for how all materials within
collection are handled
20Sound Collections Assessment/Triage
- Every situation is different
- Curatorial Prioritization
- Preservation Assessment Report
- Use Access
- Is used?
- Would be used?
- Obsolescence
- Deterioration
- Scale
- Existing Plan/Criteria (or lack thereof)
21Sound Collections Assessment/Triage
- Every situation is different
- Curatorial Prioritization
- Preservation Assessment Report
- Use Access
- Is used?
- Would be used?
- Obsolescence
- Deterioration
- Scale
- Existing Plan/Criteria (or lack thereof)
22Arm Yourself with Information! Whats on the CD
- Mixed-Mode CD, with both CD-Audio portion and
-ROM section with files. - Materials from Saving Sound Session
- - PowerPoint presentation
- - Full Text document of oral presentation
- - Charles Kolbs outline
- -.pdfs of Alan Lewis handouts
- -Sarah Staudermans PowerPoint
- Planning, Standards
- - Planning an Audio Preservation Transfer
Project - - Collection of Standards compiled by David
Seubert - - 2 CLIR Papers
- - Papers on disaster planning and recovery by
Steve Smolian and Peter Brothers - Other Resources
- - Library of Congress Disc Cleaning Solution
formula - - Collection of URLs
- - Bibliography
- Audio Samples
- - Examples of a 78 rpm played with different
stylus sizes
23Sound Collections Assessment/Triage
- Every situation is different
- Curatorial Prioritization
- Preservation Assessment Report
- Use Access
- Is used?
- Would be used?
- Obsolescence
- Deterioration
- Scale
- Existing Plan/Criteria (or lack thereof)
24Sound Collections Assessment/Triage
- Every situation is different
- Curatorial Prioritization
- Preservation Assessment Report
- Use Access
- Is used?
- Would be used?
- Obsolescence
- Deterioration
- Scale
- Existing Plan/Criteria (or lack thereof)
25Obsolescence
- If you dont know what it is, finding a machine
to play it on will probably present a challenge
26Obsolescence
- Quality equipment is rapidly becoming very
difficult to acquire - Our recent search for top-of-the-line, highest
quality 1/4 reel-to-reel machines took 9 months
(and were still looking for parts for one
machine)
27Deterioration
- Where the curator and the vendor meet
- First, do not harm
- In-house assessment can identify issues
- Sound preservation is more like paper
conservation than image scanning - Vendor will have volumes of experience
- During 2006 Safe Sound Archive will process 5,000
hours of sound recordings
28In-house Curatorial Assessment
- Some problems are obvious
Victims of - bad storage conditions
Victims of poor handling
29In-house Curatorial Assessment
Acetate is translucent Polyester (Mylar) is opaque
Tape on the left is sticky. Tape should flow off
reel freely, such as on right
30Safe Sound ArchivesExpertise with Analog Media
- 14 1/4 Reel-to-reel Machines
- All Speeds
- 15/16, 1 7/8, 3 3/4, 7 1/5, 15, 30 ips 50
- All Sizes
- 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10.5, 12, 14
- All Equalizations
- NAB, CCIR, AES
- All Track Formats
- Full-Track Mono
- 1/2-track (NAB CCIR)
- 1/4-track
- Experience to custom-modify as needed
31Safe Sound ArchivesExpertise with Analog Media
- Broadcast direct-drive turntables
- All Speeds
- 33, 45, 70.29-80 ips 10
- All Sizes
- 5, 7, 10, 12, 16
- All Equalizations
- NAB, RIAA, AES, non-standard
- All Groove Formats
- Mono, Stereo, L/R, LR, L-R
- All Groove Sizes
- from microgroove to 10.0 mil
- Center, Edge, or Reverse Play
32Questions?
- George Blood
- Safe Sound Archive
- georgeblood_at_safesoundarchive.com
- (215) 248-2100
- www.safesoundarchive.com
33Standards Best Practices
- Standards Out of Date
- Call for analog tape
- EBU has standard
- Best Practices Abound
- Whats best for your institution situation
34Preservation Set
- Preservation Master
- Use Access Copy
- Web-Accessible Copy
35Preservation Master
- Key Traits
- Rarely accessed
- Most important to manage
- Typically 96kHz/24bit
- .WAV or .BWF
- wave or broadcast wave
- Rarely, though sometimes still 1/4 analog
36Preservation Master
- Key Advantages
- Widely used
- Higher resolution than 99 of sources
- Better than most playback chains
- Derivatives easily created
- EBU standard
37Preservation Master
- Key Difficulties
- No standard storage medium
- Data tapes expensive to maintain
- Too big for CD-ROM
- On-line storage requires ongoing maintenance
- Internet delivery impractical
- 5x play time for T1 .ftp
38Preservation Master
- Typical Solution
- 96/24 on hard drive to digital library
- Enterprise-level storage
- 96/24 on DVD-ROM
- Can be migrated easily to HDD when available
- Do something else
- Gold CD-R
- CD-ROM
39Use Access Copy
- Key Traits (and Advantages!)
- Readily accessible
- User-friendly format
- Good enough to substitute if Preservation Master
is lost - Nearly always CD-Audio
40Use Access Copy
- Key Difficulties (CD-Audio vs. CD-ROM)
- CD-DA (digital audio)
- Pure serial-read (cant re-read to correct
errors, even transient errors) - CD-ROM (digital audio as data)
- Sector-based, so can re-read (more reliable)
- Requires computers (software, OS, etc.) to
retrieve - CD-DA more widely playable
- CD-ROM more reliably played
41Use Access Copy
- Typical Solutions (depend somewhat on
Preservation Master) - CD-DA for near-universal playability
- Multiple copies
- CD-DA, one copy on gold, one on green
- CD-ROM (gold?) and CD-DA (green)
- Gold CD-R for Preservation Master, Green for UA
42Web-Accessible Copy
- Depends on Rights
- RA ACC more secure than mp3 or WMA
- Depends on Needs
- Too restricted to put on-line
- Beyond institutional abilities or needs
- Perhaps as-needed only
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48Questions?
- George Blood
- Safe Sound Archive
- georgeblood_at_safesoundarchive.com
- (215) 248-2100
- www.safesoundarchive.com