Re: [ARSCLIST] Preservation/dissemination of info

[Don Cox <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/07/03, Paul T. Jackson wrote:
> With regard to learning what to save, i.e., criteria, ( if someone is
> already doing it, why save another or the 100th copy of a disc if one
> knows how to get it or find it,) I'm wondering why ARSC and it's
> members and other collectors groups couldn't mount a project similar
> to the Gutenberg Project. It's been around since the days of Gopher
> and has built a credible collection of OP material.
>    A common database and MP3s has already been suggested, but rather,

MP3 or other lossy compression formats should be avoided for archives.
See here for a survey of lossless compression methods for audio:
http://www.firstpr.com.au/audiocomp/lossless/
or
http://www.monkeysaudio.com/index.html


> I'm wondering if there would be some way to take such a program and
> develop, not the recordings, but an open access to all the lists,
> catalogs, etc., perhaps in txt format, of recordings held by libraries
> and collectors. I wouldn't expect these to be any particular format,
> as the lists would contain the owners contact information if more
> information were needed. At some point the collection of documents
> could be then searched using search engines that are used by intranets
> for relevant documents.
>     Perhaps a single database is not the model necessary, but rather
> one such as Gutenberg. http://promo.net/pg/

I think something more like Google or Altavista but specifically
searching for sound archives would be best. These engines keep on
searching, so the links don't get so out of date as they do on web
pages.

So what would be needed is a new meta tag for HTML to indicate to a bot
that the page contains sound archives. For example,
<meta name="robots" content="soundarchive">

Regards
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Don Cox
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