Committees & Sections
Technical Committee
Officers of the
Technical Committee (chairpersons, secretaries) are elected
within the committee. The committees exclusively decide on the
objects and tasks they deal with.
The Technical Committee devotes itself to all technical aspects of sound recording and sound recordings. This includes the actual recording processes, optimisation of reproduction of historical and modern recordings, transfer and digitisation technologies, standards and storage technologies, software and carriers. The Technical Committee is concerned with the preservation of audiovisual media and technically sustainable approaches to future access.
The creation of special publications enabling the AV archive community to take educated decisions regarding this, is a main concern of the committee:
The series 'Standards, Recommended Practices and Strategies' include:
1. IASA-TC 03, The Safeguarding of the Audio Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy, Version 3, December 2005, 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 versions in the following languages:
2. The IASA-TC 04, Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Objects, is available:
- as a bound, hard copy publication, priced at €35. An additional €5 will be charged for postage. Order Form
- in Spanish as Lineamientos para la producción y preservación de objetos de audio digitales, translated by Antonio Limas. This publication is available from the Phonoteca Nacional in Mexico City and can be ordered at no cost from Perla Olivia, perlaolivia@gmail.com
- 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
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