USEFUL LINKS

1. Archiving issues and principles
2. Videotape preservation issues
3. Minidisks
4. Linguistics computing
5. Music computing
6. Performance Studies computing
7. Equipment and software
8. General Interest

1. Archiving Issues and Principles

How to Care for your Audio Collection, ScreenSound Australia, August 2001
http://www.screensound.gov.au/ScreenSound/Screenso.nsf/HeadingPagesDisplay/PreservationHow+to+Care+for+your+Audio?OpenDocument

Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis report 2001
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub96/access.html

Links on preserving access to digital information stored on optical disks (including CD etc) 2001
http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/topics/53.html

Music Library, University of Washington 2001
Audio Preservation and Restoration,including some links to film and video tape preservation
http://www.lib.washington.edu/Music/preservation.html

CD-Recordable FAQ (updated monthly)
http://www.cdrfaq.org/

National Library of Australia - links to staff papers on preservation issues, 1995-2000
http://www.nla.gov.au/nla/staffpaper/preserve.html

Preservation 2000:
An International Conference on the Preservation and Long Term Accessibility of Digital Materials 2000
http://www.rlg.ac.uk/events/pres-2000/prespapers.html

A Workbook for the Preservation Management of Digital Materials, Maggie Jones, The Arts and Humanities Data Service 2000
http://www.rlg.ac.uk/events/pres-2000/jones.html

Library of Congress Cylinder, Disk and Tape Care in a Nutshell 1999
http://lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/care/record.html

Audio-Visual Prototyping Project, Library of Congress 1999 (including specifications on Audio digitization requirements)
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mopic/avprot/audioSOW.html#5

Don't destroy the archive! [need to preserve analogue originals] Michael Gerzon 1999
http://www.waves.com/htmls/service/faq/dont.html

Digitization reconsidered - Jim Lindner 1998
http://www.vidipax.com/articles/digirecon.html

Links to technical information about CDs 1998
http://www.cd-info.com/CDIC/tech-overview.html

Digital audio at the National Library of Canada, Gilles St-Laurent 1997
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/9/1/p1-248-e.html

Care and handling of recorded sound materials, Gilles St-Laurent, 1996
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byauth/st-laurent/care.html

Procedures for Recovering Audio and Sound Recording Materials, Syracuse University Library Disaster Recovery Plan 1995
http://libwww.syr.edu/information/preservation/audio.htm

Preservation Issues for Optical/Electronic Media National Agricultural Library (US) 1994
http://www.nalusda.gov/services_and_products/other_nal_products/eii/nal-eii7.html

Directory of Information Sources on Scientific Research Related to the Preservation of Sound Recordings, Still and Moving Images and Magnetic Tape, Margaret S Child 1993
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/child/child.html

Kodak info on permanence, care and handling of CDs, n.d.
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/products/storage/pcd/techInfo/permanence.jhtml?id=0.1.16.18.15.6&lc=en

National Library of New Zealand 'Care of Sound Recordings'
http://www.natlib.govt.nz/en/services/2sound.html

UNESCO Intangible cultural heritage - definitions and resources
http://www.unesco.org/culture/heritage/intangible/html_eng/index_en.shtml

Vidipax - Audio restoration company's description of procedures
http://www.vidipax.com/audrest.html  

2. Video Tape Preservation Issues and Recommendations

Magnetic Tape Deterioration: Tidal Wave at Our Shores Jim Lindner 1996
http://www.vidipax.com/articles/tidal.html

Format listening tests: CD and MD
http://www.minidisc.org/format_comparison.html

MD decks (needed to get digital output from your MD recordings)
http://www.minidisc.org/deck_table.html

Encoding MP3
http://www.macdigitalaudio.com/software/?choice=convertingmp3

4. Linguistics Computing

Computer-Assisted language worker (Nick Thieberger) including reviews of SoundEdit, SoundIndex and PRAAT
http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/contact/studentsites/thieberger/CALW/

David Nash's homepage, many useful links, including the following links to linguistics-related computing (click on 'computing')
http://www.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/links.html#Software

5. Music Computing

Transcribe! (shareware programme, recommended for music transcription)
http://www.seventhstring.demon.co.uk/xscribe/index.html

6. Performance Studies Computing

Performing Arts Data Service (UK): Guide to Good Practice in Creating Digital Performance Resources ed. Barry Smith, n.d.
http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk/section2-3.html

7. Equipment and Software

Home electronics - Stand Alone, CD Burners
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/Pioneer/CDA/HomeProducts/HomeAlbum/0,1420,50~5010~5010600,00.html

IBM Microdrives - Tiny high density drives
http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/press/micro/20000620.htm

Location Hard Disk Recorders PMD680 PC Card Recorder by Marantz Professional
http://www.superscope-marantzpro.com/Marantz/Digital/digital.htm

PCAVTech Sound Card Technical Benchmarks Test Ratings Comparison
http://www.pcavtech.com/soundcards/compare/index.htm

CD Coyote 2.1.1 download page - freeware programme for extracting as text the contents of your Apple CD Audio Player's CD Remote file
http://www.uta.fi/~eesau/macintosh.html

Coaster 1.1.3 FREE software for burning CDs
http://www.visualclick.de/products/coaster/index.html

Discribe reasonably priced recording and editing software
http://www.charismac.com/Products/Discribe/discribedata.html

Felt Tip sound studio reasonably priced recording and editing software
http://felttip.com/products/soundstudio/

Raygun 1.2  noise reduction app
http://www.arboretum.com/S20_products/S22_raygun/S222PRODINFO.html
 

Peak LE and Peak VST - professional level sound editing
http://www.bias-inc.com/cgi/b_store/overload.cgi?overload=products/peak_le/

Waveburner pro
http://www.emagic.de/english/products/studiotools/wbpro.html

reasonably priced USB gadget for good audio output from your computer
http://www.stereolink.com/

helpful techy info on avoiding ground loop hum
http://www.channld.com/hum.html

very pricey but very good analog to digital converter
http://www.sascom.com/dadenmark.html  

8. General Interest

DATheads site - searchable site with lots of info on digitising formats etc
http://www.solorb.com/dat-heads/

MacDigital audio - lots of links to info on MP3 format, product reviews etc
http://www.macdigitalaudio.com/

Macfixit Forums - troubleshooting CD and CD-RW (includes toast etc)
http://www.macfixitforums.com/php/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=Forum32

Yahoo Groups - CDR audio discussion list
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cdraudio

Audio Related WWW and FTP sites - updated daily - more links than you can poke a stick at
http://www.wssh.net/~wattsup/arsl.html