The Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project wants to make people working in heritage organisations feel more confident when caring for and providing access to the audio in their collections. Ideally we’d like everybody working in a gallery, library, archive or museum in the North West to know what the first steps are once you’ve plucked up the courage to open that box of tapes.
Zines
So far we have produced three zine guides on how to digitise audio cassettes, how to rip audio CDs and how to catalogue sound archives.
Quiz time!
Test your audio format knowledge and digitisation quality control skills with these quick, fun quizzes.
Blogs describing some sound heritage processes:
Preparing the Manchester Studies oral history collection for digitisation
The Manchester Studies oral history collection
Transforming sound archives into a film presentation for our LGBTQ+ Mixtape event
LGBTQ+ MIXTAPE (Part II)
Transferring the Tameside Oral History Project: Here To Stay minidiscs
From disc to digital: MiniDisc transfer
Advice during lockdown on oral history in the home
Conducting Oral History Interviews with family
Further resources:
Two free Open University courses including interactive modules on early revolutions in sound recording:
Revolutions in Recording Music and Sound
From the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA):
The Safeguarding of the Audiovisual Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy
Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects
Handling and Storage of Audio and Video Carriers
IASA-TC 06 Guidelines for the Preservation of Video Recordings
Ethical Principles for Sound and Audiovisual Archives