Quick-Start Guide to Digital Preservation for Audio

Kansas State University Libraries New Prairie Press Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management Planning and Digitizing Yesterday to Preserve It for Tomorrow 2016 Quick-Start

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Management Planning and Digitizing Yesterday to Preserve It for Tomorrow (2016) Quick-Start Guide to Digital Preservation for Audio

Sandy Rodriguez

University of Missouri-Kansas City, rodriguezsan@umkc.edu

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Quick-Start Guide to Digital Preservation

for Audio

Sandy Rodriguez University of Missouri—Kansas City

What To Expect

• Digital preservation ≠ digitization

• Practical strategies

• Use case

• Demo of tools

Marr Sound Archives

350,000+ sound recordings Commercial music and radio programs

Versatile formats

Our Operations

Chuck Haddix, Director

Other Staffing:

Audio Engineer Operations Manager (now a Librarian)

Student Supervisor

Define the need &

the opportunity

Ahmad Alaadeen

Cassettes

Conduct a self-assessment &

gap analysis

“render the information generated through our work generalizable to other institutions who want to use the project’s innovations but

cannot redesign their audio studios nor completely alter their staffing situations in order to do so.”

with Audio Engineer

Define principles

to guide decision-making

• Understand current capacity & priorities

• Take an iterative approach

• Leverage efficiencies

• Use standards and best practices

• Define “good enough”

Define “good enough”

the ability to answer these questions

• What is this?

• What does it contain?

• Is the metadata accurate?

• Did the file change?

• What is our process?

Implement recommendations

• Standardize filenames

• Embed “catastrophic” metadata

• Quality control

• Add fixity information

• Select applications / tools

• Document specifications & process

Standardize filenames

Embed metadata

• BWF MetaEdit – Embed metadata

• MDQC – Automate QC of metadata

• Fixity – Monitor file integrity

Applications selected

Demo

Final Thoughts

Selected Resources

Preservation of Digital Audio Objects

Contact Info

Sandy Rodriguez

rodriguezsan@umkc.edu

@audiocat7