Submitted by Richard Ranft on Mon, 07/01/2013 - 19:12
A fascinating account of Indiana University researcher Patrick Feaster's "paleospectrophony", his term for creating sounds from written records containing audio transcriptions, as far back as Athanasius Kircher's well known Musurgia Universalis (published 1650) and even earlier, is in his book and CD published last year Pictures Of Sound: One Thousand Years Of Educed Audio: 980-1980
Submitted by Richard Ranft on Fri, 19/10/2012 - 17:08
State of digitisation in Europe's cultural heritage institutions – ENUMERATE report
The ENUMERATE Thematic Network has just published its first report into the state of digitisation in Europe's cultural heritage institutions. The report is based on nearly 2000 ‘core’ survey responses, from 29 European countries.
Highlights of the findings are:
Date:
11 Oct 2012 to 12 Oct 2012
The international conference on the challenges and future of archives
Date: 11 & 12 October 2012
Location: EYE Film Institute Netherlands, Amsterdam
Tickets: €75 early bird fee (ends September 12th)
http://ecommons.eu/
Submitted by Richard Ranft on Thu, 09/08/2012 - 19:44
Message forwarded from Margarida Ullate i Estanyol (Biblioteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)
La Biblioteca de Catalunya ha fet traduir al català les "Directrius per a la producció i preservació d’objectes d’àudio digital" de la IASA, una obra considerada imprescindible per als professionals de la preservació i digitalització de documents sonors. 
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