ILKAR News
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
Berlin, June 9-10TH, 2011
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.
On 22/01/2009 the first internal ILKAR meeting was carried out. Finally, the ILKAR's working group is complete. Everybody is hired and the work can comence. Present were the following people. The meeting took place in the Ethnomusicology Department of Ethnological Museum.
