Clark--
If you are talking about the transfers quality on archive.org, may I
suggest you look at the ones here:
https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?sort=-publicdate
these are the ones we have transferred with George Blood and listed in
most recently archived first.
These are 96KHz, 24bit deep monster FLAC files, with both EQ and Flat
versions, and with 4 different styli. This is to make it so we have
alot to work with, and I hope there will be debates in the reviews as to
which is better for which disc.
They are all recorded at 78.16rpm (I think), but if others would like it
we can make the player adjustable to make it so there can be runtime
adjustments.
If you are talking more philosophically about digital v physical, I
think of this as a reference collection, not as a full-on substitute. I
hope we can use this project to research transfer techniques, discover
78's and experience them in new ways, and show the value in these discs
so encourage physical AND digital preservation.
-brewster
On 5/11/17 10:53 PM, Clark Johnsen wrote:
> 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
>>
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