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Ethical Principles for Sound and Audiovisual Archives- 1. Introduction
- 2. Ethics and Sound and Audiovisual Archives
- 3. Conclusion
- Publication information
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Introduction to the First Edition
- 1: Background
- 2: Key Digital Principles
- 3: Metadata
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Production
- 3.3 Infrastructure
- 3.4 Design - Ontologies
- 3.5 Design – Element sets
- 3.6 Design – Encoding and Schemas
- 3.7 Administrative Metadata – Preservation Metadata
- 3.8 Structural Metadata – METS
- 3.9 Descriptive Metadata – Application Profiles, Dublin Core (DC)
- 3.10 Sources of Metadata
- 3.11 Future Development Needs
- 4: Unique and Persistent Identifiers
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Persistent Identifiers
- 4.3 File Naming Conventions and Unique Identifiers
- 4.4 Identifier Characteristics
- 5: Signal Extraction from Original Carriers
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Reproduction of Historical and Obsolete Mechanical Formats
- 5.3 Reproduction of Microgroove LP Records
- 5.4 Reproduction of Analogue Magnetic Tapes
- 5.4.1 Introduction
- 5.4.2 Selection of Best Copy
- 5.4.3 Cleaning and Carrier Restoration
- 5.4.4 Replay equipment: Professional Reel Machines
- 5.4.5 Replay equipment: Professional Cassette Machines
- 5.4.6 Maintenance
- 5.4.7 Alignment (equalisation below)
- 5.4.8 Speed
- 5.4.9 Capstan-less Machines and Non-linear Speeds
- 5.4.10 Replay Equalisation
- 5.4.11 Noise Reduction
- 5.4.12 Corrections for Errors Caused by Misaligned Recording Equipment
- 5.4.13 Removal of Storage Related Signal Artefacts
- 5.4.14 Wire Recordings
- 5.4.15 Magnetic office dictation formats
- 5.4.16 Time Factor
- 5.4.17 Signal Auto detection, auto upload (failings and benefits)
- 5.5 Reproduction of Digital Magnetic Carriers
- 5.5.1 Introduction
- 5.5.2 Selection of Best Copy
- 5.5.3 Cleaning, Carrier Restoration
- 5.5.4 Replay Equipment
- 5.5.5 Common Systems and Characteristics: Cassette Systems
- 5.5.6 Common Systems and Characteristics: Open Reel Formats
- 5.5.7 Common Systems and Characteristics: Video Tape Based Formats
- 5.5.8 Replay Optimisation
- 5.5.9 Corrections for Errors Caused by Misaligned Recording Equipment
- 5.5.10 Removal of Storage Related Signal Artefacts
- 5.5.11 Time Factor
- 5.6 Reproduction of Optical Disc Media (CD and DVD)
- 5.7 Field Recording Technologies and Archival Approaches
- 6: Preservation Target Formats and Systems
- 6.1.1 Introduction
- 6.1.2 Data or Audio Specific Storage
- 6.1.3 Principals of Digital Preservation
- 6.1.4 Practical Aspects of Data Protection Strategies
- 6.1.5 Philosophy of System Sustainability
- 6.1.6 Long Term Planning
- 6.1.7 Defining the Digital Object
- 6.1.8 The Open Archival Information System (OAIS)
- 6.1.9 Trusted Digital Repositories (TDR) and Institutional Responsibility
- 6.1.10 Audio Archives and Technical Responsibility
- 6.1.11 Digital Repository Software, Data Management and Preservation Systems
- 6.2 Ingest
- 6.3 Archival Storage
- 6.3.1 Archival Information Package (AIP)
- 6.3.2 Archival Storage basics
- 6.3.3 Digital Mass Storage Systems (DMSS)
- 6.3.4 Data Tape Types and Formats Introduction
- 6.3.5 Data Tape Performance
- 6.3.6 Tape Coatings
- 6.3.7 Tape Housing Design
- 6.3.8 Linearly and Helically Scanned Tapes
- 6.3.9 Ancillary Storage and Access Devices
- 6.3.10 Format Obsolescence and Technology Cycles
- 6.3.11 Automated Robotics or Manual Retrieval
- 6.3.12 Selection and Monitoring of Data Tape Media
- 6.3.13 Costs
- 6.3.14 Hard Disk Drives (HDD) Introduction
- 6.3.15 Reliability
- 6.3.16 System Description, Complexity and Cost
- 6.3.17 Disk Only Storage
- 6.3.18 Hard Disk Storage Systems
- 6.3.19 HDD Life
- 6.3.20 Monitoring of Hard Disk Media
- 6.3.21 HDD technologies
- 6.3.22 Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM)
- 6.3.23 File Management Software in smaller systems
- 6.3.24 Verification and retrieval
- 6.3.25 Integrity and Checksums
- 6.4 Digital Preservation Planning
- 6.5 Data Management and Administration
- 6.6 Access
- 7: Small Scale Approaches to Digital Storage Systems
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Approaches to Small Scale Digital Archiving
- 7.3 Description of System
- 7.4 Basic Metadata
- 7.5 Preservation Planning
- 7.6 Archival Storage
- 7.7 Practical Hardware Arrangements
- 7.8 Risks
- 8: Optical discs
- 8.1 CD/DVD Recordables
- 8.1.1 Introduction
- 8.1.2 CD-R and DVD-R Recording Formats
- 8.1.3 Recordability, rewritability, erasability and accessibility
- 8.1.4 Recordable CD and DVD Description
- 8.1.5 Optical Disc Standards
- 8.1.6 System Description, Complexity and Cost
- 8.1.7 Disc and Drive Compatibility
- 8.1.8 Disc Selection
- 8.1.9 Errors, Life Expectancy and Testing and Analysis
- 8.1.10 Testing of Existing Recorded Discs
- 8.1.11 Testing Equipment
- 8.1.12 Access and Data Migration
- 8.2 Magneto-Optical Discs
- 9: Partnerships, Project Planning and Resources
- 9.1.1 Introduction
- 9.1.2 Archival Responsibilities and Collections
- 9.1.3 Sharing archival responsibilities
- 9.1.4 Critical Mass
- 9.1.5 Outsourcing
- 9.1.6 Quantitative Assessment of Project Dimensions
- 9.1.7 Hierarchy of transfer to digital
- 9.1.8 Long term preservation of digital audio objects
- 9.1.9 Calculating overall costs
- 9.1.10 Summary
- References
- Information about IASA
- Members of The IASA Cataloguing Rules Editorial Group
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 0: Preliminary notes
- 0.0. Scope, purpose and use
- 0.A. Source of information
- 0.B. Elements of description
- 0.C. Punctuation
- 0.D. Levels of detail in description
- 0.E. Language and script of the description
- 0.F. Inaccuracies
- 0.G. Accents and other diacritical marks
- 0.H. Capitalisation
- 0.I. Examples
- 0.J. Abbreviations
- 0.K. Alternatives and options
- 1: Title and statement of responsibility
- 2: Edition, issue, etc.
- 3: Publication, production, distribution, broadcast, etc., and date(s) of creation
- 3.0. Scope and definitions
- 3.A. Preliminary rule
- 3.B. General rule
- 3.C. Place of publication, production, distribution, broadcast, etc.
- 3.D. Name of publisher, producer (production company), distributor, broadcaster, etc.
- 3.E. Optional addition. Statement of function of publisher, producer (production company), distributor, broadcaster, etc.
- 3.F. Date of publication, production, distribution, broadcast, etc.
- 3.G. Place, name and date of manufacture
- 3.H. Date(s) of creation (unpublished items only)
- 3.I. Reproductions (which are themselves unpublished)
- 4: Copyright
- 5: Physical description
- 6: Series
- 6.0. Definition and scope
- 6.A. Preliminary rule
- 6.B. Title proper of series
- 6.C. Parallel titles of series
- 6.D. Other title information of series
- 6.E. Statements of responsibility relating to series
- 6.F. ISSN of series
- 6.G. Numbering within series
- 6.H. Subseries
- 6.I. More than one series statement
- 6.J. Optional rule. Collection and series in collection statement
- 7: Notes
- 8: Numbers and terms of availability
- 9: Analytic and multilevel
- 10: Item/copy information
- Appendix A. Fonds and collection level cataloguing
- Appendix B. Examples
- Appendix C. Terms for describing the physical condition of sound recordings
- Appendix D. Glossary
- Appendix E. Bibliography
- The purpose of this document
- 0. Ethical considerations
- 1. The task of sound archives
- 2. Primary and secondary information
- 3. The instability and vulnerability of audio carriers
- 4. Obsolescence of formats
- 5. Safeguarding the information
- 6. Selection of best copy and carrier restoration
- 7. Optimal signal retrieval from original carriers
- 8. Unmodified transfer to a new target format
- 9. Improvements in transfer technologies
- 10. Digital target formats and resolution
- 11. Data reduction
- 12. Digital archiving principles
- 13. Digital mass storage systems
- 14. Solutions before DMSSs become affordable: Small scale manual approaches to digital storage
- 15. Preservation metadata
- 16. Strategy
- 17. Co-operation
- 18. Maintaining the knowledge base of archives
- IASA Technical Committee
- Members of the Task Force Group
- 1. Forward
- 2. Introduction
- 3. Technical Selection Criteria
- 4. Selection for Digitisation in Broadcasting Sound Archives
- 5. Selection for Digitisation in National Sound Archives
- 6. Selection for Digitisation in Research Archives
- 7. Metadata
- 8. Conclusion
- 9. Bibliography
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- 9: Analytic and multilevel
- 10: Item/copy information
- Appendix A. Fonds and collection level cataloguing
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