17.84, Confs: Ling Technologies/General Ling/London, UK

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Date: 11-Jan-2006
From: Peter Austin < pa2 at soas.ac.uk >
Subject: Workshop on Audio Recording, Digitisation and Archiving 

	
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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:00:53
From: Peter Austin < pa2 at soas.ac.uk >
Subject: Workshop on Audio Recording, Digitisation and Archiving 
 



Workshop on Audio Recording, Digitisation and Archiving 

Date: 13-Feb-2006 - 13-Feb-2006 
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact: Zara Pybus 
Contact Email: zp2 at soas.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/elar1/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

This workshop is presented by Dietrich Schueller, Phonogramarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences and will deal with fundamental issues in analgoue and digital audio and video capture and archiving. It will be of interest to media and archiving specialists as well as linguistic fieldworkers. 

This workshop with be of interest to:

- those specialists who capture sound from analogue and digital sources and who archive audio or video (will be most interested in Part A)
- fieldworkers who work with audio, including linguists, ethnomusicologists, and anthropologists (will be most interested in Part B) 

You can attend in the morning (Part A), afternoon (Part B), or both.
Places are limited and booking is essential ... download booking form

Program
Part A (morning: 11am - 1pm)

Session 1: Principles of audio conversion and preservation (IASA-TC 03)
        Topics include:
          - A-D conversion
          - Choosing digital resolution and file formats
          - Digital to digital ingest 
Session 2: Optimising signal extraction from magnetic tape
        Topics include:
          - Identifying and assessing track formats and misaligned recording heads
          - Historical equalisations 

    [LUNCH]
Part B (afternoon: 2pm - 4pm)

Session 3: Field audio recording
        Topics include:
          - Microphone arrays, including psychoacoustic considerations
          - Recording devices, post R-DAT 
Session 4: Small scale digital archiving
        Topics include:
          - Manual approach to digital archiving
          - Archiving in the field 

Format of sessions

Sessions consist of a 30 minute presentation with 15 minutes for questions. Some sessions will involve more audience discussion.





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