The Brooklyn Historical Society’s oral historian discusses the museum’s new online platform for audio.
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Shuffle 200,000 Tracks from European Sound Archives
Europeana Radio is a new platform to access thousands of historic tracks from audio collections in European libraries, universities, and other institutions.
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Digitized Artist Talks from the 20th Century, from Alice Neel to Gordon Parks
The Maryland Institute College of Art’s Decker Library is digitizing rare audio from their cultural lecture archives, and offering them to stream on the Internet Archive.
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Listening to Archived Sounds Amid the Stacks at the New York Public Library
Up on the second floor of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, you might hear the rising notes of opera faintly ringing from a card catalogue, or see people wearing headphones at the ends of the sheet music aisles.
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An Archive of 10,000 Cylinder Recordings Readied for the Spotify Era
From cakewalks to carols, historic sounds of all kinds are preserved at the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Cylinder Audio Archive.
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The World’s Largest Wildlife Sound Archive and the Urgency of Preserving Noise
Digital archives are essential for sharing information and encouraging its preservation, especially for sound.