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Creating Digital Audio Resources
A Guide to Good Practice

 
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Advice
 Guides to Good Practice
  1. Overview
  2. Working with Copyright
  3. Digitising audio: an outline
  4. Playing back audio media
  5. Computers for audio
  6. Other resources: skills and time
  7. Creating the digital audio files: a step-by-step guide
  8. Documenting digital audio resources
  9. Presentation and delivery
  10. Preservation
  11. APPENDIX A: Case studies
  12. APPENDIX B: Glossary
  13. APPENDIX C: Bibliography
 Performing Arts Data Service
Guide to Good Practice
Creating Digital Audio Resources

Bibliography

General online resources

University of Iowa Musical Instrument Samples page
http://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/

Ceolas - Celtic Music on the Internet
http://ceolas.org/ceolas.html

American Memory - Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html (go to Collection Finder)

American Folklife Center - Omaha Indian Music
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/omhhtml/index.html

American Memory Sound Recording Collections
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/

American Folklife Center - "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftvhtml/ftvhome.html

Digital Music Archives
http://www.digital-music-archives.com/

peoplesound
http://www.peoplesound.com

bits and pieces: a sonic installation for the web
http://www.fictive.org/~peter/bits/index.html

BBC Digital Arts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/digital/index1.shtml

UBUWEB: Visual, Concrete and Sound Poetry
http://www.ubu.com

Sound Practice: conference on sound, culture and environments
http://www.soundpractice.org.uk

Symphony for Cornwell
http://www.symphony.cornwall.dmu.ac.uk/

Sonic Arts Network
http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org/ (go to 'sounds')

Metadata resources

General cataloguing and metadata standards/frameworks

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, second edition, 1998 revision

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
http://dublincore.org

Resource Description Framework (RDF)
http://www.w3.org/RDF/

OCLC Cataloging Internet Resources
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/man/9256cat/toc.htm

Getty Institute Metadata Resources
http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/intrometadata/

Library of Congress Metadata Resources
http://www.loc.gov/standards/metadata.html

UKOLN Interoperability
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/interoperability/

Classification Schemes

Universal Decimal Classification Consortium
http://www.udcc.org/

Library of Congress Classification Outline
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/

Dewey Decimal Classification
http://www.oclc.org/dewey/index.htm

Audio-visual cataloguing and metadata

HARMONICA II Accompanying Action on Music Information in Libraries
http://www.svb.nl/project/harmonica/Deliverables/D141.htm

International Association of Audio-Visual Archives
http://www.llgc.org.uk/iasa/index.htm

IASA Manual for Cataloguing Sound Resources:
http://www.llgc.org.uk/iasa/icat/index.htm

International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres
http://www.cilea.it/music/iaml/iamlhome.htm

Music Cataloguing Guidelines from the American Music Library Association
http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/sheetmusic/title.html

Authority sources for proper names

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Online
http://www.grovemusic.com/

The Internet movie database
http://www.imdb.com/

Online Journals

Ariadne Online Journal
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/

D-Lib Forum and Magazine
http://www.dlib.org/

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