Description
The U-M Library is working with outside vendors to digitize fragile and deteriorating recordings of high research value held in our collections. The collections include interviews and oral histories, poetry readings, lectures, and musical performances on cassette, reel-to-reel, disc and DAT.
Project documents:
- Request for Proposal for Audio Digitization
- METS Profile for Audio
- Audio Workflow
- Audio Digitization Basics
Other useful resources:
- Sound Directions: Best Practices for Audio Digitization (Indiana Univ)
- Columbia Oral History Audio Preservation Project
- CDP Digital Audio Best Practices (Univ of Colorado)