{"id":568,"date":"2010-10-27T09:53:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T13:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/?p=568"},"modified":"2010-10-27T09:53:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T13:53:30","slug":"audio-preservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/2010\/10\/27\/audio-preservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio Preservation: Replicating the Moment in Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you know that the Music Library has a state-of-the-art audio preservation studio but you may not know much about it or even where it is. It\u2019s located on the third floor at 8 Story Street; David Ackerman is the lead engineer. Recently he produced this 3-minute video about <a href=\"http:\/\/hcl.harvard.edu\/libraries\/loebmusic\/aps\/\" target=\"_blank\">Audio Preservation Services<\/a> (APS). Take a look, you\u2019ll like it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/15886696\">http:\/\/vimeo.com\/15886696<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the conducting the day-to-day preservation work of the studio, APS staff contribute to international standards for audio collections and, as part of the joint Harvard and Indiana University <a href=\"http:\/\/dlib.indiana.edu\/projects\/sounddirections\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sound Directions<\/a> project, developed the <a href=\"http:\/\/hcl.harvard.edu\/libraries\/loebmusic\/aps\/sound_directions.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Sound Directions Toolkit<\/a>, an open-source software suite to allow audio engineers to automate some of the routine,\u00a0 repetitive tasks of digitization<\/p>\n<p>Explore the library&#8217;s archival collections to hear some of the recordings preserved by APS (some sound files are available only to the Harvard community):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nrs.harvard.edu\/urn-3:FHCL.Loeb.Faids:mus00023\" target=\"_blank\">The Eduard Alekseyev Fieldwork Collection of the Musical Culture of Yakutia, 1969-1990<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nrs.harvard.edu\/urn-3:FHCL.Loeb.Faids:mus00025\" target=\"_blank\">The Stephen Blum Collection of Music from Iranian Khor\u0101s\u0101n at Harvard University<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nrs.harvard.edu\/urn-3:FHCL.Loeb.Faids:mus00001\" target=\"_blank\">The Laura Boulton Collection of Byzantine and Orthodox Musics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nrs.harvard.edu\/urn-3:FHCL.Loeb.Faids:mus00008\" target=\"_blank\">The James Rubin Collection of Indian classical music, 1957-1989<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nrs.harvard.edu\/urn-3:FHCL.Loeb.Faids:mus00019\" target=\"_blank\"> The Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, Baroness Ullens de Schooten Collections at Harvard University<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Coincidentally, today is <a href=\"www.unesco.org\/webworld\/en\/world-audiovisualheritage-day\" target=\"_blank\">UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage<\/a>, a day to celebrate the cultural significance of recorded sound and video and to raise awareness of the urgent need for its preservation. Visit the Coordinating Council of Audio-Visual Archives Associations for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pia.gov.ph\/wdavh2010\/\" target=\"_blank\">a list of events<\/a> planned by archives and heritage collections around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Virginia Danielson and Kerry Masteller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you know that the Music Library has a state-of-the-art audio preservation studio but you may not know much about it or even where it is. It\u2019s located on the third floor at 8 Story Street; David Ackerman is the lead engineer. Recently he produced this 3-minute video about Audio Preservation Services (APS). 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