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. arch.i.vi.us™:Social Bookmarking Blog for Research Archivists Tuesday, April 25, 2006 Found: Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project "With funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the UCSB Libraries have created a digital collection of over 6, 000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections.

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. The Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at UCSB November 23, 2005 4:35 PM PST is a digital collection of over 5000 digitized from the turn of the 20th century.

. Also, my wife is indirectly involved in this project (I checked with Matt before posting because of that), so if you have any general questions, let me know.

. posted by at PST on November 23 Interesting project, I could see this being a great source of material for sampling.

. For more information, see posted by at PST on November 23 Interesting project, I could see this being a great source of material for sampling.

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Browse Collections by: Search Collections Other Browse Options: Full Description Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project Find out more about: Collection Information Title: Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project URL: Description: Digital collection of over 6, 000 cylinder records from 1895-1920s with downloadable and streaming audio held by the Department of Special Collection, University of California, Santa Barbara.

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EEPI - Electronic Entertainment Policy Initiative [Date Index ][Thread Index ] [ EEPI-Discuss ] UCSB's Cylinder Digitization and Preservation Project is online To : eepi-discuss@eepi.org Subject : [ EEPI-Discuss ] UCSB's Cylinder Digitization and Preservation Project is online From : Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com> Date : Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:41:46 -0800 (PST) The Project Site: ...

. Davidson Library at the University of California, Santa Barbara, introduced the Cylinder Digitization and Preservation Project Web site (cylinders.library.ucsb.edu), a collection of more than 6, 000 cylinders converted to downloadable MP3's, WAV files and streaming audio.

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. of Special Collections at the Davidon Library, UC Santa Barbara, has over 5000 digitized versions of cylinder recordings from the early 20th Century available through their Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project.

. An overview of the project can be found here: describing some of the issues faced by the project.

. Warning: the project has been featured on Slashdot, and was mentioned tonight on WFMU's show devoted to early recordings, so traffic is a little heavy.

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UCSB Special Collections: Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Pilot Project

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Pilot Project Please visit our new site at Introduction to the scope and purpose of the project Overview of the history of wax cylinders and the cylinders chosen for the UCSB project Details on the analog to digital conversion process, the compression used for web access and the cataloging Listen to streaming audio versions of the cylinders or download mp3 files Learn how you can support the continuation of the project Page maintained by .

UCSB Special Collections: Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Pilot Project: Technical Information

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project Technical Details of the Project Please visit our new site at Digitizing the Cylinders In order to transfer the cylinders to digital format and subsequently the web, the Library's, a specially made machine designed by Henri Chamoux, was used.

. Streaming servers are necessary for projects with many simultaneous users such as streaming audio course reserves or webcasting of radio which may have dozens or hundreds of simultaneous users.

. While Microsoft and others do this to protect copyright holders, we felt it was unacceptable for a project using public domain material where people have a right to do whatever they want with the audio.

. All cylinders digitized for this project are cataloged in, the UCSB Libraries' online catalog.

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. Here’s a little history of this project from the Project Overview page: “The cylinder digitization project began in January 2002 as a pilot project with the goal of exploring the feasibility of digitizing the Library’s collection of cylinder recordings for online access.

. … After completing the pilot project and demonstrating both the feasibility and public interest in the collections, a grant proposal to the Institute of Museum and Library Service (IMLS) was submitted in 2003.

. A $205, 000 National Leadership Grant in the preservation/digitization category was awarded in September 2003, and the project began in November 2003.

. The project website went online in October 2005 with an initial collection of 5, 000 digitized cylinders.” Other examples of “Digitized and Web-Accessible Early Recordings” are found on the page.

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. Scan-Do For instance, there's Google Book Search, a project of Google Inc.

. and Microsoft Corp., meanwhile, are part of the Open Content Alliance, a project scanning material from sources including the university libraries of California and Toronto and the British national archives.

. Rosenzweig says his ability to sift through 19th-century newspapers digitized and indexed at ProQuest.com has shaved months from the time it used to take him to complete research projects.

. Last November, 5, 000 digitized wax-cylinder recordings dating back to 1895 were posted online by the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

. "Now I'll have a better sense of what people were looking for." Fred Turner, an assistant professor of communication at Stanford University, says he made a seminal discovery while browsing through The Sixties Project, a site hosted by the University of Virginia.

. Turner favors two nonprofit subscription-based services, 3 and Project MUSE ( 4 ).