Capturing analog sound for digital preservation
Subtitle: report of a roundtable discussion of best practices for transferring analog discs and tapes.
Contributors: Council on Library and Information Resources.; National Recording Preservation Board (U.S.); Library of Congress.
Series: Optimizing collections and services for scholarly use; CLIR publication -- no. 137
Publisher: Council on Library and Information Resources and Library of Congress
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Subjects: Sound recordings -- Digitization.; Sound recordings -- Conservation and restoration.; Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- Digital techniques.
Other titles: Best practices for transferring analog discs and tapes
Description: The "report investigates procedures to reformat sound on analog carriers to digital media or files. It summarizes discussions and recommendations emerging from a meeting of leading audio preservation engineers held January 29-30, 2004, to assess the present state of standards and best practices for capturing sound from analog discs and tapes." The full text of the report is provided in HTML coding for viewing and as a PDF for downloading.
Notes: Title from home page (viewed on May 24, 2006).

"Commissioned for and sponsored by the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress."

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

FIS: copy is for e-version; will also buy paper; this record used for both; e-version viewed on Mar 6, 2007