Methods and Technologies for Digital Preservation of Analog Audio Collections
Cooper, Jeremy Todd · Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) · 2019
This paper is a consideration of some of the challenges libraries and other institutions face in the digitization of analog audio collections for preservation and access. The intent of this study is to demonstrate that such an existing analog audio collection can be digitized, described, stored, and preserved using currently available and emerging technologies. Consideration was accorded to a broad range of topics related to the creation of enduring digital audio collections. It is hoped that this effort will illuminate possible paths to successful preservation of audio collections while also vastly improving access to them. Furthermore, the study will demonstrate that libraries and other institutions that possess similar multimedia assets may have access to effective and economical means of transforming isolated and moribund materials into persistent, valuable, and widely available multimedia documents.