Indigenous recorders go on the record (fwd link)

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Indigenous recorders go on the record

Australia

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander  
Studies has called for urgent action to record the songs, language and  
cultures of Indigenous people before 2025 or they could be lost forever.

    Principal of AIATSIS, Russell Taylor said the Agency had more than  
100,000 hours of recorded materials and hosted the world’s premier  
collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander audiovisual  
materials.

    He said however that most of the recordings were collected during  
the 20th Century on magnetic tape.

    “By 2025, no amount of money will preserve the remaining magnetic  
material yet to be digitised and we have an ethical imperative to save  
these endangered recordings to digital forms while it is still  
possible,” Mr Taylor said

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