Workshop: Computational Ethnomusicology @ Lorentz Center, Leiden
"Preservation and Accessibility of
Ethnomusicological Collections"
Samuel Mund, Center for World Music, University of Hildesheim
Overview
1. Personal background
2. The Center for World Music
3. Preserving Collections
4. Access
5. Curating ethnomusicological collections
6. Discussion
1. Personal background
2009 - 2016: digitizing projects in Cairo, Tehran and Hannover
2017: Research Assistant at the Center for World Music
2009: Presenting the digitized Ragheb Moftah Collection to Pope
Shenouda III.
2010: Digitizing a record from the ‚Wolfgang Laade Music of Man
Archive‘
2013: Digitizing Shellac discs at the Music Museum of Iran, Tehran
2. The Center for World Music – Mission statement
Research
Collections
Transfer
Community
Services
2. The Center for World Music - Collections
· 45.000 Vinyl Records
· 1.000 Shellac Discs
· 1.200 Audio Cassettes
· 3.500 Musical Instruments
· 10.000 Books
· 2.500 VHS-Tapes
· Collector‘s and Ethnomusicologist‘s estates
2. The Center for World Music - Collections
Catering to:
· Researchers
· Musicians, Performers, Artists
· Music educators
· Media professionals
· The general public
Collection ‚Rolf Irle‘ - impressions
Lamellophone,
Mali ca. 1978
Arched Harp,
Congo ca. 1930
Mbira Dza
Vadzimu,
Zimbabwe ca.
1930
3. Preserving Collections
· Staff!
· Physical preservation
· Digital preservation
· Allocation and retrieval
3. Preserving Collections - Staff
· University institute – mostly student staff
· Proper tutorials and training
· Standardized workflow
· Error-related standard procedures
3. Preserving Collections – physical preservation
· Identifying vulnerable media
· Replay equipment acquisition and maintenance
· Storage conditions
· Handling of carriers and media
· Technical documentation
3. Preserving Collections – digital preservation
· Digitizing standards (IASA TC03-05)
· High quality archive copies
· Long-life audio and video codecs
· Distribution of copies (LOCKSS)
· Long-term storage
3. Preserving Collections – allocation and retrieval
· Server for work copies
· Categories (MIMO/LIDO repositories, ...)
· API programming (Hornbostel-Sachs-Classes)
· Database system (EasyDB)
· Under license from the shared library composite GBV
4. Access
· Usually heavy access restrictions
· Copyright issues
· Ethical problems
· Access and power relations
5. Curating ethnomuscological collections
· Preservation and access can best be achieved
through broadening the scope of (digital) curating
· Mapping ethnomusicological discourse (both
music analysis and anthropological methods)
· How can the current state of the art in digital
curating be expanded and furthered through MIR?
Thank you for your attention!
Contact me at:
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