Lars Gaustad presentation at BL - April 2014

Keeping Tracks, British Library, 21 March 2014

Lars Gaustad

National Library of Norway

A multimedialdigital library

Digitisation adopted as

a long term preservation strategy

Preferred digital (i.e. files) deposit of new material

Digitising the collection

1 000 books digitised every week

1 000 000 book pages every month

40 000 newpaper pages from original every week

200 000 newspaper pages from microfilm monthly

P.t. ca 350 000 books (> 75 % of all norwegian titles!)

P.t. ca 15 600 000 newspaper pages (approx. 20 % of the norwegian newspaper collection)

-> 640 000 newspapers (ca 15,6 mill. pages)

-> 350 000 books (> 50 mill pages)

-> 375 000 pages manuscripts and music manuscripts

-> 670 000 photos

-> 920 000 hours of radio

-> 490 000 hours of television

-> 23 000 units of music

-> 9 000 units of film/video

Digital collection

Digital storage

Current:

3 * 6 Petabyte

Disk + 2 * tape

SAM-FS archive file system

Average growth 6 Tbytes / day,

Peaking at 10 TB

2014: + 1,8 petabyte * 3

Digitising multitracks1 & 2 inch analogue, MD & DASH formats

To

EBU RF64 files

http://www.nb.no/Om-NB/Pliktavlevering/Hva-skal-pliktavleveres/Musikk/Digital-pliktavlevering-av-musikk

wimpspotify

iTunes

soundcloud

Black hole

Norwegian Parliament 2009:

National Library and National Archives responsible for offering long-term digital preservation services to the cultural heritage sector

AES31-1-2001 (r2011)

Standard for network and file transfer of audio —Audio-file transfer and exchange —

Part 1: Disk format

AES31-2-2012Revision of AES31-2-2006AES standard on network and filetransfer of audio –Audio-file transfer and exchange –File format for transferring digital audio data between systems of different type and manufacture

AES31-3-2008(reaffirmed 2013)

AES standardfor network and file transfer of audio -Audio-file transfer and exchange –

Part 3: Simple project interchange

The US Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing:

Recommendation for Delivery of Recorded Music Projects(Including Stems and Mix Naming Conventions)

mediaSERVICES is a Sustaining Member of IASA