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Preserving Endangered Audio Media – Rethinking Archival Strategies for Conservation of Analogue Audio Carrier
ILKAR is funded in the framework of KUR – Programme to Preserve and Conserve Mobile Cultural Assets, an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Cultural Foundation of German States
Berlin, June 9-10th, 2011
!!!Deadline for papers extended until March 31th, 2011!!!
As a result of the ILKAR project we have published a DVD which mainly deals with the conference held in Berlin in June 2011. It also contains interviews with former employees of german tape manufacturers. In the next few days we start shipping the DVD to everybody who was involved in this project with a big THANK YOU
International Seminar
Preserving Endangered Audio Media – Rethinking Archival Strategies for Conservation of Analogue Audio Carriers
International Seminar
Preserving Endangered Audio Media – Rethinking Archival Strategies for Conservation of Analogue Audio Carriers
Berlin, June 9-10TH, 2011
Fradique LizardoFormer ILKAR collaborator Maurice Mengel is
applying lessons learned from ILKAR's inspection procedure on a different
archive. Mengel will prepare the Centro León's Fradique Lizardo collection for
digitization. The late Lizardo was one of the most influential Dominican
folklore collectors of recent decades. His collection was acquired by the Centro
Leon, one the country's leading cultural institutions, in 2000. The current
project is financed by a Grammy Foundation preservation planning grant.
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 works with the collections of Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv to improve the preservation of cylinder recordings.
The Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv, today part of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin, preserves some of the earliest sound documents of the world. They were collected with a phonograph on wax cylinders between 1893 and 1954.
