[ARSCLIST] FW: Audio archives metadata

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From: Molly Wheeler [mailto:mollyw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 3:33 PM
To: ARCHIVES@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Audio archives metadata

Dear archives community,

I am currently doing audio preservation work at the Harry Ransom Center
in
Austin Texas. I have a few questions for people that also do this work
regarding transfer metadata.

I am currently using ProTools LE and burning
to Gold Mitsui CD-Rs; I create an audio CD (for access) and a data
CD (for preservation, higher resolution than the audio). I have a
database
that creates a CD insert on acid free paper and states, among other
things: copy creation date, who duplicated it, original format, and a
field for other information (which side of a reel or cassette it is,
what
each track is, etc.), and here I also include: creation hardware,
software, OS, bit depth, sampling rate. Each digital file that I
create has attached to it (in the open apple i command): creation
hardware,
software, OS, bit depth, sampling rate. I also save each file created to
my hard drive... yes- storage quickly became an issue.

*How and where do you record the bit depth and sampling rate of the
transfer? I can attach it as I described above, in the open apple place,
but this is easy information to lose. Also, the database is helpful, but
I
am looking for a way to attach it to the object itself. I have
considered
a text file, burned with the WAV data files.

*What metadata do you include? I include much, but would like to know
what
others are doing and why. I have approached it in terms of
identification
and future migration.

*What is your file naming standard for created files? The collection
here
has a unique number for each recording, and I use this. This connects it
to the database record and the original material (written in the
housing).
Do you include other information in the file name?

*My ultimate aim is to have a way for someone in the future to know a
great deal about the recording and its creation without having to search
through project notes, manuals, etc., although these will exist and be
helpful. (This is also thinking that somehow the case with its insert
could be separated from the CD-R. I don't write on the CD-R, it connects
itself to the databse by the unique Mitsui CD-R number found in the CD-R
hub.)

Thanks so much for your time. I will be happy to include more
information
if you'd like.

Sincerely,
Molly Wheeler
Intern, HRC

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