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RE: arsclist CD access copies
Dear All
Peter is almost correct: many Oral History interviews in the British Library
are originated on Minidisc, but my no means all. Some Oral Historians are
persevering with cassettes using the ubiquitous Marantz CP430 and there are
some moves afoot to use portable CD-R recorders (e.g. Marantz CDR300) and
so-called solid state recorders to record in BWAV format (I can't recall the
product name but it's Marantz again!).
The Oral Historians who use Minidisc either set the recorder to
automatically flag the recording every circa five minutes, or go through the
recording after the interview and flag particular segments (perhaps the
interviewer's questions). Sometimes they flag on the fly.
I don't think it really matters which method is used, as long as the (long)
interview can be navigated using the track markers. Perhaps the
post-interview flagging is the best when the interviewer can mark particular
subject/topics?
Digital transfers to CD-R are made for access just as outlined by Peter
(below).
Regards
Nigel
Nigel Bewley
Manager, Technical Department
British Library National Sound Archive
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London NW1 2DB
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-----Original Message-----
From: Copeland, Peter [mailto:Peter.Copeland@xxxxx]
Sent: 22 November 2002 10:35
To: 'ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: arsclist CD access copies
Dear All,
Now that I've retired, you should not assume this is British Library
policy. But "interviews" (in our parlance, Oral History interviews) are
always mastered on Minidisc, upon which track flags can be edited.
Basically, the interviewer does this after the session has ended. The audio
is then copied using a digital link to CD-R (yes, I know the audio has
suffered lossy compression in the meantime), and the SP-DIF link carries the
track flags, so the subject-changes nearly always coincide with a track
flag.
Peter Copeland
-----Original Message-----
From: andy kolovos [mailto:akolovos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 November 2002 14:57
To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: arsclist CD access copies
Ok, well now that we've touched on the topic of CD access copies, I have a
general question for folks out there who are using CD for access copies of
audio interviews. If you record an entire interview to CD without adding
track breaks of any sort, the only way to reach a particular point the
recording is either to listen to the whole interview until you reach the
desired point or hold down the "search" button and shuffle through the
entire recording--assuming, of course, one's listening room CD players even
have a search button. This is, unless one inserts track marks on to the
disc at various intervals or to mark significant points.
My instinct is to place track marks at timed intervals--lets say every 5 or
so minutes of a recording--without any silence between them, across the
duration of the interview. This would allow a patron to skip ahead a bit
more quickly than he or she would be able to if they had to hold down the
search button to do the same thing. If I were to place tracks at
"significant" points in the interview, I would be the one deciding what was
"significant"--and I would rather have patrons decide on their own what
they find significant in or about a particular interview.
What are those of you out there who are using CD for access to interviews
doing? Has anyone discussed a developing a "best practice" in this regard?
Any thoughts are appreciated.
thanks,
andy
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Archivst/Folklorist
Vermont Folklife Center
P.O. Box 442
Middlebury, VT 05753
(802) 388-4964
akolovos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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