Monday, April 06, 2015

NYU Libraries to Team with Internet Archive to Preserve High Quality Musical Content on the Web

NYU Libraries to Team with Internet Archive to Preserve High Quality Musical Content on the Web. Christopher James. Press Release. March 27, 2015.
This collaboration is to ensure that the websites of musical composers can be collected, preserved, and made accessible in the future. The project will preserve objects with sound and visual quality at a significantly higher level than current web archiving standards. The project is funded with a grant of from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Since master-level recordings are rarely available on the  Internet, the music is usually delivered in lower quality compressed formats, such as MP3. A specific aim of the project is to develop protocols for obtaining master-level recordings and integrating them into the archival copies on the websites.

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