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On 26/04/2012, Bill Klinger wrote: > --- Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA --- > > The Longy School of Music receives $10,000 to assist in funding its > project for digital preservation transfer of recordings of classical > music performances by the School's faculty, including Roman Totenberg > and Irma Rogell. The recordings feature important guest performers, > such as Artur Balsam, Anner Bylsma, D'Anna Fortunato, Claude Frank, > Lillian Kallir, Anthony Newman, Virginia Pleasants, Jaap Schroder, and > Daniel Stepner. > I am always puzzled by the use of the expression "digital preservation", when it is more difficult to keep a digital file intact than it is to store an analog tape or a grooved disc. Digital is great for copying. So far, not so great for preservation. I am very conscious of this in photography too, since I moved from film to digital. Regards -- Don Cox [log in to unmask]