IASA status report

Sound collections at the Royal Library

Marianne Holm Pedersen The Royal Library 27 May 2015

The collections

Some examples

MUSIC COLLECTION: - Recordings of Danish Music- Often unpublished; recordings of

concerts- Recordings from DR- Genre: Jazz, classical music, popular

music

MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION- Interviews with members of the

resistance movement and ’voluntary fighters’

Danish Folklore Archives

- Examples of intangible culture: Music, songs, stories, etc

- 855 wax cylinders, 3,300 quarter inch reel-to-reel tapes, 78’ere, etc.

- Primarily Danish, but also material collected by Danes abroad

Current efforts: Preservation

Gatekeeper

DOMS

dia-prod-dom-02.kb.dk

The audio files are stored here ready for dissemination

The gatekeeper moves the files and records to the Audio OM catalog on the DOMS server .

Workflow State Diagram

Daily Productiondia-prod-med-01.kb.dk

The audio files are ingested in to Cumulus

Import the yyyy-mm-dd.csv file in to Cumulus

In Cumulus/Record view set ”Administration”: The files are marked as Publication_Catalog: ”Audio OM” and ”Færdigregistreret”

QA (metadata)

QA (metadata)

Digitization workflow

Digitizing is started which generates a temporary audio file

The daily work folder is created

Prepare the recording equipment

Archiving & content metadata from media is added to the Excel spreadsheet

Open the Excel spreadsheet in NeoOffice Calc and save the day´s work as yyyy-mm-dd.csv

The audio recorder and software best suited for the media is chosen and adjusted

The start and end points of the temporary audio file are adjusted. Audio quality and digital audio peaks are checked

Export & save the audio file

Give unix command writeback.sh yyyy-mm-dd (writes metadata using BWF_Metaedit into broadcast wave files) .

The day´s folder with all files are sent to the Daily Production server

QA (metadata)

Supplementary metadata is entered

Prioritising digitalization

• Format• Availability to players/machinery• Content• Unique?

• Avoiding duplicates• What does ‘unique’ imply?

• Potential for dissemination/accessibility

• Copyright• Money, money, money

Future focus areas

• To disseminate and communicate the collections

• Which material can be published online• How do we reach different audiences• Which channels can we use?

• What should be collected in the future?

• Audio as integrated in general accession politics – not as separate material

• Collaboration with other institutions• We need to learn from others• How do we differ from others – what are our

strengths