A noble project indeed. Just two caveats. There are various ways to play
the discs, some better than others, some very poor indeed. Are the latter
to stand as the permanent representations? And then one must ask what
digital medium is utterly trustworthy? And/or which "cloud"?

These questions have bothered me for several decades. To my mind they
remain unanswered.

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 12:45 AM, Brewster Kahle <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Today at the ARSC meeting we announced "The Great 78 Project" to
> encourage preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records.
>
> The Internet Archive, working with the Archive of Contemporary Music (B
> George), George Blood LP, and Coast Mastering (Jessica Thompson), we now
> have a project website:
>
>      http://great78.archive.org/    and
>
>      http://archive.org/details/78rpm where users have uploaded 57,000
> 78's and cylinder transfers, and
>
>      we have started digitizing donated collections.
>
> The idea is to make this a community project to help bring all of our
> collections to light and weave them into the web.
>
> Please give feedback and please join!
>
>   * *Share knowledge.* Help us improve metadata, curate the collection,
>     contact collectors, do research on the corpus, etc.
>   * *Include your digitized collection.* If you have already digitized
>     78s or related books or media, we’d like to include your work in the
>     collection.
>   * *Digitize your collection.*  We’ve worked hard to make digitization
>     safe, fast and affordable, so if you’d like to digitize your
>     collection we can help.
>   * *Donate 78s.*  We will digitize your collection and preserve the
>     physical discs for the long term.
>
> Any ideas or questions:  [log in to unmask]
>
> -brewster
>
> Digital Librarian
> Internet Archive
>