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Save our Sounds, a programme to sustain a million hours of recordingBAAC conference 2016Connecting, Curating, Sharing2 November 2016
Richard Ranft, The British Library
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British Library’s national sound archive
•7 million tracks
•Published / unpublished/ broadcast
•from 1857
•…to this morning
•many formats
•120 years of non-stop listening
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Challenges
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The costs of inaction
Unlike print collections, the cost per item for audiovisual material will increase as equipment and parts become increasingly difficult and ultimately impossible to replace
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Save our Sounds 2015-2023
Vision: A national sound collection that is representative, secure, digital and accessible
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Future Digital Acquisitions
Digitally acquiring UK’s published sound and music:
Aim: By 2023: 90% of new sound recordings published in UK that fall within acquisition policy acquired and preserved
Developing an extensive radio archive for the UK:
By 2023: Capture and deliver access to speech-based radio content from majority (c.700) of UK licensed radio stations
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Saving sound heritage
Recently discovered test recording of The Third Man theme
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National audit
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Technical infrastructure for acquisition, preservation and access
•“Metable” acquisition and metadata tool so record labels can ‘push’ digital releases to BL
•Enhance capacity of BL Digital storage system
•Develop new SIP generator for staff use to ingest to DLS, with integrity checks, rights labels
•US$0.6m Mellon Foundation grant to develop a universal player using ISNIs and IIIF framework
•Speech-to-text trials for radio (and TV) broadcasts
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Access
•Sound & Moving Image Catalogue (most collections)
•onsite listening:– Appointments service (99.9% of collections)– SoundServer (200,000 tracks, 3% of total)– Exhibitions & learning events
•off site listening:– BL Sounds website (85,000 tracks, 1%)– BL Learning and project sites– SoundCloud, Europeana, Wikimedia
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Exhibitions: Evolving English
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Exhibitions: Punk music (May-Oct 2016)
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Learning: British accents and dialects
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Learning: courses for adults
Exploring English: Accents and Dialects
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•Improving access and discovery
• http://sounds.bl.uk/
BL Sounds
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Voices of Science www.bl.uk/voices-of-science www.bl.uk/voices-of-science/interviewees/Stephanie-Shirley
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Europeana Collections
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SoundCloud
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Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons
https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilkasis_tokas (African grey hornbill)
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Save Our Sounds funding
•Total cost of programme est. £40m
•HLF project, if approved at Stage 2, will contribute £9.5m
•Additional funding may come from a combination of
• BL funds• public donations (and crowd-funding?)• private-public partnerships• philanthropic funding
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https://vimeo.com/140505054
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Thanks for listening!
[email protected]://sounds.bl.ukwww.bl.uk/save-our-sounds @soundarchive