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digitization of audio cassettes



A couple of years ago in this forum, someone inquired regarding projects
that digitized audio cassettes for storage on CD. The familiar caveats
regarding the costs and hazards of data migration, technological
obsolescence, etc. were presented at that time.

Has anything changed in the past couple of years in this field? Have there
been any successful large-scale digitization projects, especially of large
oral history collections stored on audio casettes? (Ours, for example,
consists of approximately 2,500 audio tapes.) What is the per-unit cost of
digitization? In what format is the data stored on the CDs (or DVDs)? Does
anyone know a source of information for nuts-and-bolts, dollars-and-cents
specifics?

Thomas J. Wood
Archivist
Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
University of Illinois at Springfield
P.O. Box 19243
Springfield IL 62794-9243
217-206-6520 | wood@uis.edu | http://www.uis.edu/library/lib-arch

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