Frontera Digital Audio Archive Sponsors

Digital Library Program Music Library Chicano Studies Research Center Arhoolie Foundation Los Tigres del Norte Foundation

Manager Lynn DeLacy, Music Library

Frontera Digital Audio Archive Content: 17,000 78rpm discs of Mexican

American music Collected by Chris Strachwitz, owner of

Arhoolie Records; Owned by the Arhoolie Foundation

Variety of popular genres, mostly vocal and instrumental; some spoken word

Digitization funded by Los Tigres del Norte Foundation

Management shared by the Library and Chicano Studies Research Center

Frontera Digital Audio Archive Digital Preservation of the collection Los Tigres del Norte: Mexican

heritage that is otherwise unavailable being made available to the general population

Unique cultural resource for research in Chicano Studies and Music

Frontera Digital Audio Archive Digital Audio formats:

Master files: 96kHz, 24 bit samples Streaming: mp3, Real, MPEG4

Images of labels Progress to date:

10,700 sound files and labels Projected launch: August 2003.

Frontera Digital Audio Archive Labels include:

Falcon (924 titles) Columbia (1684 titles) Ideal (2108 titles) Vocalion (2050 titles) Rio (512 titles) Corona (338 titles) Bluebird (1378 titles) Okeh (444 titles) Brunswick (593 titles)

Frontera Digital Audio Archive Copyright Issues

Stream Public Domain recordings to everyone• Problem: Status of sound recordings is sometimes

unclear Other recordings: Fair use

• Stream files on UCLA campus• To UCLA authenticated users off campus?• To UC system?• To scholars and others for limited time upon request• Stream 30 sec. sample to all users• Metadata and images of labels available to all

Architecture and Urban Design Digital Images Sponsors

Digital Library Program Department of Architecture and Urban

Design, School of the Arts and Architecture

Manager Amy Kulper, Department of

Architecture and Urban Design

Architecture and Urban Design Digital Images Content: Images in support of

instruction and research in A+UD Source: A+UD slide library (30,000+

images); Faculty; other sources Progress to date: ca. 4500 images Projected launch: August 2003.

Architecture and Urban Design Digital Images Future developments

Continuing digitization of images from slide library and other sources

Cooperation with A+UD in development of instructional resources• Architecture. 194B, Spring 2003• Development of course management

system for Faculty