Technical Guidelines

The IASA Technical Committee has delivered several papers, which serve as technical guidelines, in the series 'Standards, Recommended Practices and Strategies'. These include:

1. IASA-TC 03, The Safeguarding of the Audio Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy, Version 3, December 2005, is available:

2. IASA-TC 04, Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Objects, 2nd Edition, is available:

  • as a bound, hard copy publication, priced at €25 (IASA members' discounted price: €15). An additional €8 will be charged for postage. Order Form (link to IASA online shop) CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK - REPRINTING
  • in Spanish, as Directrices para la producción y preservación de objetos digitales de audio, translated into Spanish by Enric Giné and Marcos Sueiro and published by the Spanish Association for Music Documentation (AEDOM). Available from the price of €25 plus postage . To order, contact: admin@aedom.org
  • as a web edition on this website

The 1st edition of IASA-TC 04 is also available:

  • in Italian as Linee guida per la produzione e la preservazione di oggetti audio digitali, translated by MARTLab. This publication is available at the Associazione Italiana Biblioteche AIB, Roma. To order, use online order form available at http://www.aib.it/aib/editoria/2007/pub172.htm