Steve,
I think that this is a great idea, one to which I would be happy to make a
cash contribution. Take a look at this site:
http://mediahistoryproject.org/collections/
This is a friendly front-end to moving image and radio documents in
archive.org. Everything is downloadable, I believe. The media history
project touts itself here as including recoded sound, but so far our field
is represented only by a few radio titles.
Should ARSC establish its own site, or should interested parties support
inclusion of additional recorded sound serials in the Media History Project
Library?
Sam
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Hi Steve:
>
> You can use Archive.org, but I found their interface terrible and
> inconvenient for the would-be contributor of knowledge. The end result I
> got was, all of the Audiotape Tape Recorder Directory issues that I had
> scanned ended up as one page:
> http://www.archive.org/**details/AudioDevices-**
> TapeRecorderDirectory1960-1961<http://www.archive.org/details/AudioDevices-TapeRecorderDirectory1960-1961>
> which makes it somewhat hard to sift through, although not completely
> non-inutitive.
>
> I plan to upload more stuff like this, including scans of old
> record-company catalogs. I very much agree with and commend your comment
> about information being available to all researchers.
>
> Agree that ARSC would be an appropriate "mother ship" for record company
> lists, catalogs and other promotional material, as well as some antique
> playback equipment information. However, to be useful it would need to be
> curated and there would need to be standards as far as scan quality, etc.
> We've batted this around at AES and never come to firm conclusions,
> although there has been much information sharing and the AESHC website
> grows each year with more material and more variety of subjects. I am a
> strong advocate for an established decent quality level for scans, but I
> don't think they need to be works of art, just good resolution on images
> and clearly readable text.
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Smolian" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:14 PM
> Subject: [ARSCLIST] Need for document posting place
>
>
>
> I have many documents that are good source material for researchers.
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>> I'd like to get some of these onto a site, preferably ARSC-hosted,
>>
>>
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>> I have strong feelings that these and others that others may have should
>> be
>> available to all researchers.
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>>
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>> The site should be vetted by an ARSC member or committee to avoid
>> perpetuation of junk data.
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>>
>>
>> It should be available past the lifetime of those contributing documents.
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>> The recent HRS-IRCC questions can be answered from the thick files I have
>> on
>> both organizations, but I see no reason to send them around and be
>> dependent
>> on other's interpretations of the data when it is feasible to let all see
>> the same info and cross-check. This holds true for a lot of other stuff
>> as
>> well.
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>>
>>
>> This is a project I feel is of great importance. How about it, ARSC?
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>>
>> Steve Smolian
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