I've dashed off some more stuff for
saveaussiemusic.org. They're not
cirectly relevant to Commons - almost nothing I'm talking about is
likely to be freely licensable, let alone public domain - and the
copyright issues surrounding this are a minefield, which is why we're
still seeking libraries to partner with - but I would be most grateful
to have clueful people look over them and see if there's anything
wrong or that I've missed in a technical sense.
The use case is people with a collection of interesting cultural
materials (records, books, magazines, flyers, photos) who don't want
to donate the physical objects to a library but would be quite pleased
to donate digitised copies. So they'd probably be doing this stuff
themselves at home.
http://wiki.saveaussiemusic.org/wiki/Digitising_audio
http://wiki.saveaussiemusic.org/wiki/Image_scanning
http://wiki.saveaussiemusic.org/wiki/Negative_scanning
I am particularly interested in anyone who knows anything about
preserving reel-to-reel tapes. Does anyone have handy guides to
extreme tape preservation techniques?
(I've also asked someone at Internet Archive, of course, who are
directly acquainted with all of these areas.)
- d.