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>Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:47:27 -0400
>Subject: Audio archiving
>From: Lucinda Miller <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information    Forum
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I have been asked to throw out our entire collection of audiotapes (for an
idea of what we have, http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/audio/tapeinfo.html)
in order to clear the room they are in for use as a classroom. (It would be
a horrible space for a classroom, by the way.) When I balked at that, it was
suggested they be put in storage on the other side of campus.  I sincerely
hope that I have staved that off for the time being, by offering to shrink
the collection, but I can see what's coming, sooner or later, and I'm
afraid, sooner.

What I have been doing with the old tapes that I believe are worth archiving
is digitizing them at 44.1 kHz, 16-bit mono, and making audio CDs of them
along with CD-roms of the aif files.  I know this is not a good solution,
either, because the CDs are likely to last only 7 years or so.  Does anyone
have any better ideas?  Part of the problem, of course, is that I really do
need to thin the collection, and I haven't had time!  I guess I had better
find time.  We probably have upwards of 2000 hours of material that I think
we should keep, but I don't know if I can convince the powers that be.

Thanks.

-- 
Lucinda Miller, interim assistant director
Center for Language Technology and Instructional Enrichment
Indiana University 
120 Ballantine Hall
1020 E. Kirkwood
Bloomington, IN 47405-7103
(812) 855-0005; fax: (812) 855-5656




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