ILKAR News, Outreach Activities, Related News
At the 2009 IASA conference in Athens, Elena Gómez Sánchez and Albrecht Wiedmann presented an outline of the ILKAR's research methodology and first preliminary results.
Albrecht Wiedmann (Ethnological Museum in Berlin) introduced the ILKAR project, the project's main objectives and described the research carried out so far for cylinders. Emphasis was put so far on improving the casting process in which positives are made from negatives.
I received the following e-mail today from Bill Klinger through the ARSC Listserv. It is very encouraging to see how slowly, but steadily important information resources for our field become more accessible. Such activities facilitate research and early-day practice in the audio archives:
ILKAR inside the exhibit: Albrecht Wiedmann, demonstration of modern phonograph.ILKAR is part of the exhibit "A Different Approach to the World: The Humboldt-Forum in the Berlin Palace -- A first look at the lab". The exhibit opens on July 9 2009 in the Altes Museum in Berlin, Germany and exhibts key ideas for the Humboldt-Forum, the new museum which will be built next to Berlin's famous museum island.
Following the Lars Koch's presentation of the ILKAR project at the IASA annual conference in 2008 in Sydney, we submitted an article for the IASA journal in which we describe the project, its objectives and the first preliminary results.
The article is entitled "ILKAR: Integrated Solutions for Preservation, Archiving and Conservation of Endangered Magnetic Tapes and Cylinders" and written by Lars-Christian Koch, Stefan Simon, Elena Gómez-Sánchez, Maurice Mengel and Albrecht Wiedmann.
ILKAR will be visible at the new exhibition "KulturGUTerhalten" which currently takes place at the Altes Museum in Berlin.
kulturGUTerhalten - Restoring the Archaeological Treasures of the National Museums in BerlinOpen Laboratory
Today, we received notice that our proposal for a conference presentation at the anual IASA conference in Athens has been accepted. The talk will be delivered by Elena Gómez-Sánchez and Albrecht Wiedmann and is entitled «ILKAR: Improving the preservation of magnetic tape and cylinders. Some new insights into a well-known problem»
"40th IASA Annual Conference", which will take place on September 20th-25th, 2009 in Athens, for more information see: http://www.iasa2009.com
The Second Edition of the IASA TC04, Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects, has been printed and is about to be launched. There will be an event marking the launch at the British Library's Unlocking Audio 2 Conference in London next week.
Already an accepted authority in the sound archiving field, the second edition is a thoroughly revised and updated publication with substantial new information and chapters.
The second edition now also contains:
• guidance in metadata, thoroughly explained with examples
A new project that started on 1 January 2009 and runs for 42 month, that almost four years. The project budget is huge: over 12 million EU, with a EU contribution of 8 million EU. 14 participants from six countries, many from the PrestoSpace project, some new ones. No CNRS. No public project website up to now.
Participants
Austria
OSTERREICHISCHER RUNDFUNK(ORF)
UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK, Austria
