Finding Common Ground PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS AND THE NATIONAL RECORDING PRESERVATION PLAN.

Finding Common GroundPUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS AND THE NATIONAL RECORDING PRESERVATION PLAN

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“This plan … emphasizes that coordination among public and private stakeholders in the recorded sound community will be essential for achieving a successful national sound recording preservation program.”

(p. 1)

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1. Building the National Sound Recording Preservation Infrastructure

2. Blueprint for Implementing Preservation Strategies

3. Promoting Broad Public Access for Educational Purposes

4. Long-Term National Strategies

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4.2 Executive Leadership Committee on Recorded Sound Preservation Organize an advisory committee of industry

executives and heads of archives, under the auspices of the National Recording Preservation Board and in collaboration with the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), to address recorded sound preservation and access issues that require public-private cooperation for resolution

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5Who are we?

General public

Collectors of sound recordings

Libraries, archives and museums

Recording companies

Performers

Broadcasters

Copyright holders

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Recommendation 4.4: Preservation of Twenty-First Century Recordings Develop strategies that will enable research

libraries and archives to collect and preserve culturally significant recordings that are currently restricted by end-user license agreements

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71. National Infrastructure

Recommendation 1.1: Recorded Sound Media Storage Facilities Construct environmentally controlled storage

facilities that provide optimal conditions for the long-term preservation of recorded sound media

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Recommendation 2.3: Public-Private Partnerships Disseminate guidelines—via the

Audio Preservation Resource Directory website—for establishing collaborative preservation partnerships between public institutions, private companies, private collectors, and other stakeholders to preserve endangered recordings

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Recommendation 2.6: Tools to Support Preservation throughout the Content Life Cycle Encourage the development of tools to support

adherence to standards and best practices in the creation of sound recordings and in the management of their preservation

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Recommendation 2.7: Best Practices for Creating and Preserving Born-Digital Audio Files Research, develop, and promote improved and

scalable processes to package multipart and metadata-rich digital audio objects, and to develop (and update) practices for the transformation and management of these objects when they are archived for the long term. Define preferred formats (including metadata) in order to maximize the initial creation of born-archival files by those who produce sound recordings, or develop recommendations for preferred file formats, embedded and/or associated metadata, and object packaging

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“Without collaborative efforts between artists, distributors or recordings, and libraries and archives, the preservation of recordings made in the twenty first century will be impossible, and our national heritage will remain at risk of being lost forever.” (p. 34)

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Recommendation 3.1: National Discography Encourage the continued development of an

authoritative national discography through the expansion of existing discography projects

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Recommendation 3.2: National Directory of Recorded Sound Collections Create a publicly accessible national directory of

institutional, corporate, and private recorded sound collections

Recommendation 3.7: Licensing Agreements for Streaming Develop a basic model licensing agreement to allow

on-demand secure streaming by libraries and archives of out-of-print recordings to researchers and the general public

Recommendation 3.9: Sound Recording Labels Ownership Database Create an online public registry of owners of sound

recording labels

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The Collector Chris Strachwitz

Christian Alexander Maria, Graf Strachwitz von Groβ-Zauche und Camminetz

German immigrant with some US antecendents

Passion for roots styles: blues, hillbilly, bluegrass, Cajun, zydeco, norteño…

Proprietor of Arhoolie Records and Down Home Records (store)

Released field recordings and music from his collection

An outsider championing outsider music

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“He is probably more American than man of us, but he experienced this music not as something he was born into and took for granted like the air we breathe, but as something rare and delightful, not available to the rest of the world. Coming from another language and culture, he perhaps saw the artistry in this music a little sooner, a little earlier than the rest of us, and this vision of a kaleidoscopic American musical culture, from Tejano to country and Southwestern blues, has helped thwart the single standard the music industry has tried to impose on us over the years.”

Richard K. Spottswood, on Chris Strachwitz

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Strachwitz Frontera Collection 100,000+ recordings of a vast array of styles,

including norteño and conjunto music of northern Mexico and southwestern U.S., comic skits, re-enactments of historic events, dance music

Sources: recording companies, radio stations, collectors, juke box operators Method of collection favors the less popular (less

worn side in jukeboxes; those left with distributors etc.; those more likely sold by owners)

“Since I was the only one, apparently, in the whole wide world collecting this sort of stuff, the word got out: ‘Oh yeah, you can call Chris. He’ll take that whole stash.’”

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Description, Digitization, Archiving 1996: Collection donated to Arhoolie Foundation;

description funded by NARAS, NEA, Arhoolie Productions

2000: Funding from Los Tigres del Norte Foundation for digitization; additional funding from NEH, NEA, others UCLA set standards (BWAV, 24-bit, 96kHz) and

equipment

Digitization on site in El Cerrito (home of Arhoolie)

Metadata mapped to UCLA MODS; master files deposited to UC digital preservation repository

Collection available on campus and for research upon demand

2000-2014: 78s, 45s, cassettes completed

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Reflections on working with the Strachwitz Frontera Collection

Strachwitz is an atypical collector; Arhoolie is an atypical label

Fruitful collaborative model Collector/Label proprietor

Digital Library with robust preservation and access services to contribute

Fund raising collaboration

Scholarly support (UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center)

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Reflections on working with the Strachwitz Frontera Collection

1.1 Recorded Sound Media Storage Facilities

2.3 Public-Private Partnerships

2.6 Tools to Support Preservation throughout the Content Life Cycle

2.7 Best Practices for Creating and Preserving Born-Digital Audio Files

3.1 National Discography

3.2 National Directory of Recorded Sound Collections

3.7 Licensing Agreements for Streaming

3.9 Sound Recording Labels Ownership Database

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Finding Common Ground PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS AND THE NATIONAL RECORDING PRESERVATION PLAN.

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