technical issues

The following article in Datamation provides a useful list of open source software tools for audio and video uses -- these are not all production or preservation quality tools, but they may be of use for certain purposes.

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/open-source-replacements-for-audio...

We invite researchers in signal processing, machine learning and other fields to participate in our challenge - the IEEE AASP Challenge on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events. Now available:

* Public datasets (CC-licensed, audio and annotations) for scene classification and event detection

* Task specifications for our first two tasks, scene classification and event detection (office live)

* A Linux virtual machine, which you may use to test your code

* Templates for challenge extended abstracts

Attached is the Draft outline of TC 06 as at 5 July 2011

A nice collection of stills and videos summarising digitisation activities at the Library of Congress:
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/09/gallery-digitizing-t.html