Hello:

It is important to retain as much information about the audio files as possible. DSpace (http://www.dspace.org/) is a great digital repository for maintaining essential preservation metadata of audio files (and other file types) and is used widely. In terms of archiving these digital audio objects I would recommend retaining as much metadata as possible for the future. The current preservation standard for digital audio files is Broadcast Wave Format.

John R. Gibbs at University of Washington has a list of links for audio preservation and you can access it here: http://www.lib.washington.edu/music/preservation.html

If you look under current interest you should find some information pertinent to your project.

I would also recommend sending a message to the Archives and Archivists Listserv (http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html) if you need further guidance.

Good luck!

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On 1/30/09 5:09 AM, "Sarah Falls" <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi Natalia:
 
Besides keeping the original files from the recorder, and then the derivative, MP3’s on my portable hard drive, I placed my interviews from ArtTECHtonic on the Internet Archive. I know that my files will probably be obsolete within a decade due to playback softwares evolving, but it’s my hope that the internet archive will be able to maintain them. They also provide me the ability to stream and download them—so it had multiple uses/advantages. I think here, it’s not so much the actual files we need to preserve, as it is the sound transmission. As long as the IA migrates this content to the next generation of sound files for the web, they will be able to retain them.
 
Hope this helps!
 
Sarah
 

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Subject: [ARLIS-L] Archiving audio interviews
Dear Colleagues,

With the popularity of podcasts and the improvement in the quality
of digital recordings, we are slowly accumulating audio files that feature
interviews with artists, conversations with curators, etc.
Is anyone is familiar with archiving audio files?
Any suggestions for organizing them? archiving them? best practices?

Many thanks,
Natalia


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