Wikimedia Digitization User Group/Reports/2020/January/CC0

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Report of the Month

• Period of the Report: January 6 - 31

Facts

Collection

• 30'000 78 rpm gramophone records
• 25'000 LP records
• 2'000 Phonograph cylinders

People involved

• 1 Musicologist
• 1 Computer programmer (Coder)

Infrastructure

• Climated archive room in Hinwil ZH (Archive and digitization)
• Climated archive room in Wetzikon ZH (Archive)
• ELP Laser turntable LT-2XA without built-in preamp
• Numark TTX turntable
• RME Fireface 800
• Tracer Technologies CTP-1000 (flat phono preamp)
• Graham Slee Era Gold V with PSU1 (RIAA equalizer phono preamp)
• Graham Slee Relevation M (RIAA equalizer phono preamp, switchable for 78 rpm records)
• Tapco S5 (Pair) + S10 Sub
• Mackie Big Knob Passive
• Keith Monks Gemini MK III Dual RCM (record cleaning machine)
• Copy stand with Nikon D610
• Balanced high quality audiocables with high quality connectors
• 3 work stations

Financing

• Annual GLAM budget of Wikimedia CH and other donors

Figures

Report

The CC-Zero-Project is still inside the test phase of the infrastructure, coding new software and the repairs of not working components in Hinwil. I often went to liquidations in the evenings to organize some of the over two hundred euro containers that we need to storage 20'000 records. Due tue the lack of budget we have at the moment no storage rack, cannot buy new RAKO containers or fresh pergamin paper sleeves. We were busy with the coding of the websites and the planning of the Wikidata instance. We are trying to compensate the lack of budget with orders of two other sound archives. I have organized as a well a donation of the reformed church in Küsnacht that will pay the relocation of my collection from a distant location.

Timeline

• 6 January: Test phase of the project have started
• 31 January: the ordered Graham Slee Relevation M is arrived from the United Kingdom