[NFB-History] FW: [tech-vi Announce List] The Great 78 Project: a Community Project for the Preservation, Research and Discovery of 78rpm Records

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Hello Friends:

 

     This list has been too quiet.

I thought the following would be of interest.

I realize this isn't blind history specific, but some of the 78RPM repords
collected could be from blind artists.

 

Happy Holidays,

 

Robert

 

 

From: tech-vi at groups.io <tech-vi at groups.io> On Behalf Of David Goldfield
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Subject: [tech-vi Announce List] The Great 78 Project: a Community Project
for the Preservation, Research and Discovery of 78rpm Records

 

Original Source <https://great78.archive.org/> 

 

The Great 78 Project is a community project for the
<https://great78.archive.org/preservation> preservation,
<https://great78.archive.org/research> research and
<https://great78.archive.org/discovery> discovery of 78rpm records. From
about 1898 to the 1950s, an estimated 3 million sides (~3 minute recordings)
have been made on 78rpm discs. While the commercially viable recordings will
have been restored or remastered onto LP's or CD, there is still research
value in the artifacts and usage evidence in the often rare 78rpm discs and
recordings. Already, over  <https://great78.archive.org/about#collections>
20 collections have been selected by the Internet Archive for physical and
<https://archive.org/details/georgeblood> digital preservation and access.
Started by many  <https://archive.org/details/78rpm> volunteer collectors,
these new collections have been selected, digitized and preserved by the
<https://archive.org/> Internet Archive,   <http://www.georgeblood.com/>
George Blood LP, and the  <http://arcmusic.org/> Archive of Contemporary
Music.

We aim to bring to light the decisions by music collectors over the decades
and a digital reference collection of underrepresented artists and genres.
The digitization will make this less commonly available music accessible to
researchers in a format where it can be manipulated and studied without
harming the physical artifacts. We have preserved the often very prominent
surface noise and imperfections and included files generated by different
sizes and shapes of stylus to facilitate different kinds of analysis.

78s were mostly made from shellac, i.e., beetle resin, and were the brittle
predecessors to the LP (microgroove) era. The format is obsolete, and just
picking them up can cause them to break apart in your hands.  There's no way
to predict if the digital versions of these 78s will outlast the physical
items, so we are preserving both to ensure the survival of these cultural
materials for future generations to study and enjoy.

Please  <http://great78.archive.org/donate-78s/> join this project to:

*         Donate 78s.  We have 200,000 78s, but we are always looking for
more.  We will digitize your collection and preserve the physical discs for
the long term.
<https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360017876312-How-do-I-make-a-phy
sical-donation-to-the-Internet-Archive->  To get the process started please
read this page.

*         Include your digitized collection. If you have already digitized
78s or related books or media, we'd like to include your work in the
collection.

*         Digitize your collection.  We've worked hard to make digitization
safe, fast and affordable, so if you'd like to digitize your collection we
can help.

*         Share knowledge. Help improve the metadata, curate the collection,
contact collectors, do research on the corpus, etc.

Other projects with an online listening component include the
<http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/> National Jukebox by the Library of Congress
and many uploads on  <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=78rpm>
YouTube.

This site can also be experienced on Mastodon at
<https://mastodon.archive.org/@great78> mastodon.archive.org/@great78

 <https://archive.org/> 

 <http://www.georgeblood.com/> 

 <http://arcmusic.org/> 


 

David Goldfield,

Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist

 <https://www.freedomscientific.com/Training/Certification> 

NVDA Certified Expert <https://certification.nvaccess.org/> 

 

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