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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:
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
September 27 - October 2, 2009
Corfu, Greece
The Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing, Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University kindly invites you to participate to the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, which will be held in the beautiful island of Corfu, Greece from September 27 to October 2, 2009.
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
Annual Conference 14–19 September 2008
Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia
"No Archive Is An Island"
The 2008 conference of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) will be hosted by the Australasian Sound Recordings Association (ASRA) at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney, Australia.
