Re: [ARSCLIST] Risk assessment tool

["Bewley, Nigel" <Nigel.Bewley@xxxxx>]

Mike

 

"I am further developing a risk assessment tool for ranking field audio

collections by their preservation condition and level of risk they

carry".

 

1. No particular concern.  For the time being we only make transfers of
items that are considered to be archivally stable for reasons of access,
or for commercial exploitation etc or if there is a 'definite reason':
i.e. if items have been loaned to us then we have a clear requirement to
transfer them within a reasonable time scale.  (To contradict the above,
we do have a running programme of digitising items, and as soon as the
British Library's mass-storage solution becomes available we will
gear-up and systematically work through the collections).

 

2. I have not seen any such evidence.

 

3.  We would transfer the acetate-based tape first with the cassette and
any open-reel tape runners-up in the strategic queue. (But we may
consider the importance of content too, having taken advice from our
specialist curators).  Acetate tape is not archivally stable so we would
tackle this first.  Cassette and tape is, broadly speaking, stable so
these will be down stream in the strategic queue.  More of a concern is
the hardware to reproduce these recordings rather than the life of the
carrier itself..

 

Happy New Year and greetings from London

 

Nigel

 

Nigel Bewley

British Library Sound Archive

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