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IASA Technical Committee-Standards,
Recommended Practices and Strategies
IASA-TC04 2nd Edition
Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects, March 2009

Ed. by Kevin Bradley, IASA President and Vice chair of IASA Technical Committe
Printed in Australia, 2009, 150 pp
ISBN 978-91-976192-3-3 (not 978-91-976192-2-6 as on first imprint)

Already an accepted authority in the sound archiving field, the second edition is a thoroughly revised and updated publication with substantial new information and chapters

The second edition contains:
- guidance in metadata, thoroughly explained with examples
- an entirely new structure on digital repositories which follows the OAIS guidelines
- an extensive amount of new information
- guidance on small scale storage solutions
- advice on out-sourced approaches.

No sound archive or audio collection manager should be without this publication as it forms the cornerstone of our work in the digital age.

The IASA-TC 04 2nd Edition is available as a bound, hard copy publication, priced at €15 plus €8 postage. Order form

The IASA-TC 04 2nd Edition has been generously sponsored by:
Memnon Archiving Services

Cube-Tec International

NOA Audio Solutions
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
National Library of Norway
National Library of Australia

IASA Technical Committee
Standards, Recommended Practices and Strategies
IASA-TC 03
The Safeguarding of the Audio Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy
Version 3, December 2005

Ed. by Dietrich Schüller
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
IASA Technical Committee,
Printed in South Africa, 2006, 15pp
ISBN 91-976192-0-5

This document constitutes a revision of earlier versions of IASA-TC 03 issued in September 2001 and February 1997. The revision is a consequence of the most recent developments in digital audio archiving. The document has also taken account of IASA-TC 04, Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects, published in 2004. Accordingly, TC 03 concentrates on the principles while TC 04 provides detailed explanations of the practical consequences of TC 03.

The IASA-TC 03 The Safeguarding of the Audio Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy is available:

• as a bound, hard copy publication, priced at €10, inclusive of postage. Bulk orders for training purposes can be ordered from €5 per copy, plus bulk shipping. Order Form
• online PDF version in the following languages:
  • English
  • German
  • French
  • Swedish
  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • Russian

The IASA Cataloguing Rules
IASA 1999  - Out of Print

Ed. by Mary Miliano
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives,
IASA Editorial Group,
Printed in Hungary, 1999, 268 pp
ISBN 87-7507-252-l

The IASA Cataloguing Rules is a manual for the description of sound recordings and related audiovisual media, compiled and edited by the Editorial Group, convened by Mary Miliano.

The IASA Cataloguing Rules are available:

• as a bound, hard copy publication, priced at €37 (including postage & packaging for surface mail delivery world wide). Order Form
• in Spanish as Reglas de Catalogación de IASA
• Html version

Reglas de Catalogación de IASA
IASA 1999
(ANABAD 2005)

Translation Ed.: María del Pilar Gallego Cuadrado
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives,
De la versión española Asociación Española de Archiveros, Bibliotecarios, Museuólogos y Documentalistas,
Printed in Madrid, 2005, 255p
ISBN 84-88716-34-6

Reglas de Catalogación de IASA: manual para la descripción de registros sonoros y documentos audiovisuales relacionados / recopiladas y editadas por el Grupo Redactor de IASA bajo dirección de Mary Milano; traducidas al español y adaptadas con nuevos ejemplos por María del Pilar Gallego Cuadrado.

The Reglas de Catalogación de IASA is available:

• as a bound, hard copy publication, priced at €18, plus €5 for postage to Europe. For postage to America and the rest of the world an additional €7 will be charged. The Reglas de Catalogación de IASA can be ordered directly from ANABAD, anabad@anabad.org

Task Force to establish Selection Criteria of Analogue and Digital Audio Contents for Transfer to Data Formats for Preservation Purpose  - Out of Print

Majella Breen, Gila Flam, et al (Ed.)
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives,
IASA Editorial Group,
Printed in Hungary, 2003, 20 pp

The Task Force on Selection for Digital Transfer was commissioned by the IASA Executive Board in February 2000 to examine the issues underlying the process of setting priorities for the digital transfer of analogue and digital audio content, and to deliver a statement of principles for use by sound archives in their planning for digitisation. The members of the Task Force were drawn from IASA’s Cataloguing and Documentation, Discography, and Technical Committees, and its National Archives and Radio Sound Archives Sections.

Task Force to Establish Selection Criteria is available:

• as a bound, hard copy publication, free of charge. Order Form
• Html version
• PDF versions