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Mass digitization of Canadian public broadcaster’s audiovisual archive

Submitted by Richard Ranft on Sun, 14/05/2017 - 12:21

CBC/Radio-Canada have announced the mass digitization of the public broadcaster’s audiovisual archive collection.

CBC will digitise 720,000 physical media assets (audio and video) while Radio-Canada will digitise more than 650,000 assets that include audio, video and film.

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New Sounds of Old Judeo-Spanish Songs

Date:

18 Apr 2016

Location:

New York, USA

Website:

http://www.jewishmusicforum.org/

"New Sounds of Old Judeo-Spanish Songs"

Dr. Edwin Seroussi (Emanuel Alexandre Professor of Musicology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Director, The Jewish Music Research Centre), contributor Joel Bresler, and discussant Dr. Stephen Blum (CUNY Graduate Center).

Monday, April 18, 2016 at 7pm.

Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY

Admission is free.

Please RSVP to: info@jewishmusicforum.org

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Winter School for Audiovisual Archiving

Date:

17 Feb 2016 to 19 Feb 2016

Location:

Hilversum, Netherlands

Website:

http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en/winterschool

The Winter School for Audiovisual Archiving is a three day management training, initiated by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. It provides (audiovisual) collection managers with the necessary knowledge and skills to implement or improve the digital preservation management of their audiovisual collections. This edition of the Winter School focuses on implementing and updating your preservation policies.

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Survey of Existing Sound Recordings in Collections in United States

Submitted by Richard Ranft on Sun, 31/05/2015 - 12:23

In 2014, AVPreserve and the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, undertook an in-depth, multi-faceted assessment to quantify the existing audio items held in institutional collections throughout the United States. This was performed in response to The Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan and its call for the appraisal of collections, as well as to establish a foundation for articulating the current preservation need of sound recordings in collections nationwide.

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