Hi Chuck My guess is Howard Besser is on top of all the best services. Cheers Alan Newman
Sent from my iPhone On Sep 17, 2010, at 10:48 AM, "Chuck Patch" <chuck.patch at gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Rob, Deborah, these are very helpful. > > Chuck > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Rob Lancefield on lists < > lists at lancefield.net> wrote: > >> Hi Chuck and all, >> >> In addition to the great resources Deb has suggested, two other leads: >> >> The Association of Recorded Sound Collections, ARSC, has institutional >> members who do audio A-to-D in-house but occasionally outsource those >> services, and other members who provide those services as vendors. ARSC >> has an active email list, which it may be worth hitting with a query >> seeking off-list replies about prospective service providers. More at: >> >> http://www.arsc-audio.org/arsclist.html >> >> One lead to an audio digitization house: Sonicraft (sonicraft.com) does >> very high-quality transfers of music recordings. This recommendation is >> based on individual experience, not museum-related work. As we know, a >> key factor in whether any given shop is a good candidate for a project >> is the eternal tradeoff between transfer quality and cost, vis-?-vis the >> amount and type of source material, how much quality matters, and >> budget. Please ask me off-list if you'd like a lead to someone who may >> have ideas for a specific project. As a LinkedIn user, you might also >> see if you happen to have connections in the Audio Engineering Society >> (aes.org) via http://www.linkedin.com/groups?viewMembers=&gid=71239 . >> >> Re: storage media, in a word: yes, once audio is digital, physical >> storage-medium aspects of preserving it are like those of preserving >> other digital files. Re: metadata, the AES has developed some relevant >> standards, and LOC digital preservation pages may be useful re: what can >> be embedded in audio files of a specified format (e.g., WAV): >> >> http://www.aes.org/publications/standards/ >> http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000001.shtml >> >> hope this helps! >> >> Rob (recording engineer in a pre-museum-person life) >> -- >> Rob Lancefield >> Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections >> Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University >> 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA >> rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 >> Past President, Museum Computer Network (MCN), http://www.mcn.edu >> >> >> On 9/15/2010 7:29 PM, Chuck Patch wrote: >>> I've been asked about services that perform digitization of analog >>> audio (reel-to-reel) tapes. Has anyone used such a service that they >>> could recommend? A couple of related questions - are there digital >>> storage media for audio considered remotely archival? Or is it >>> similar to visual data that's best kept on spinning disk and migrated >>> in perpetuity? What types of meta-data can one ask a service provider >>> of this sort to embed in the files? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer >> Network (http://www.mcn.edu) >> >> To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu >> >> To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: >> http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l >> >> The MCN-L archives can be found at: >> http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ >> > > > > -- > Chuck Patch > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
