by Patrick Feaster, Media Preservation Specialist, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University In a previous post, I introduced the Strategic Media Access Resource Team, or “SMARTeam” for short: the intrepid crew responsible for getting audio and video media ready for MDPI to reformat. The preparation work they do involves a number of tasks—each item… Read more »
Month: September 2017
Using the Endpoint Audio Labs Cylinder Playback Machine
by Dan Figurelli and Melissa Widzinski, Audio Preservation Engineers, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University In 1892 or 1893, Army surgeon and amateur anthropologist Washington Matthews recorded his first cylinders while working with the Navajo people in New Mexico. Matthews was already well-established as a researcher of native American traditions when he was deliberately… Read more »