Care and Handling of Magnetic and AV Media (new)
Audio Cassette
Mini Cassette (coming soon)
Open Reel Audio (coming soon)
VHS Video (coming soon)
Open Reel Video (coming soon)
Special Video Formats (Camcorder, Beta) (coming soon)
Audio Cassette
This section includes both a guide for audio cassette digitization projects and an audio digitization system set-up manual. The guide and system were created and developed by the Museum of Anthropology’s Oral History Language Lab and Audrey and Harry Hawthorne Library and Archives.
Each digitization system is fully portable, and once complete will be able to travel to First Nations communities that have audio digitization needs.
- Section D: Audio Cassette Digitization
- D1.1: Project Planning
- D1.2: Condition Assessment
- D1.2a: Container Condition Assessment
- D1.2b: Audio Cassette Condition Assessment
- D1.3a: Systems Connection Guide
- D1.3b: System Start Up Guide
- D1.3c: Shutdown Guide
- D1.4: Digitization Procedures
- D1.5a: Creating Access Masters
- D1.5b: Creating Access Copies
- D1.6: Special Processing Guide
- Form 1a: Filenaming
- Form 1b: Inventory
- Form 1c: Standards
- Form 2a: Containers
- Form 2b: Conditions
- Form 3: Digitization Log
- Form 4: Special Processing
- Form 5: Glossary
Care and Handling of Magnetic and AV Media (new)
These guidelines are for all formats of magnetic media, commonly referred to as audio or video tape. This includes audio recordings on cassettes or reels, as well as all video recordings such as VHS, U-Matic, Betacam, and ¼″ or ½″ open reel videotapes. Disks including “vinyl” records and compact and laser disks are also included since they are often present in media collections.