Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects' optimalizing quality access through digital preservation practice

摘要

Most libraries around the world have some of their holdings in an audio-format. This sound material, kept in its analogue form, has a microscopic life expectancy compared to material found on a paper medium. To delay a migration to a digital medium for another decade could be the coup de grace for many such sound collections, or cost an eye and a leg because of the unavailability of adequate analogue replay machines. Both IFLA's Audio-Visual Media Section and the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) recommend digitization as the best means to safeguard the audio heritage for the future.