Wikimedia Digitization User Group/Reports/2021/January-December/CC0

CC-Zero-Project

• User Group
• CC-Zero-Project
• Documentation by process
• Reports
  • January-December 2021
• Wikimedia CH/CC-Zero-Project

Report of the Year

• Period of the Report: January 6 - December 31

Facts

Collection

• 35'000 78 rpm gramophone records
• 32'000 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 Romanshorn TG (Archive and digitization)
• Climated archive room in Wetzikon ZH (Archive)
• ELP Laser turntable LT-2XA without built-in preamp
• 2 Numark TTX turntables
• 2 RME Fireface 800 audio interfaces
• 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
• Palmer Monacor L Studio Controller
• Keith Monks Gemini MK III Dual RCM (record cleaning machine)
• Copy stand with Nikon D610 and Nikkor f/2.8 60 mm macro lens
• Balanced high quality audiocables with high quality connectors
• 2 work stations and 2 Lenovo laptops

Financing

• No budget at all (will be asked in 2022 as a speedy grant request)

Figures

Report

The CC-Zero-Project has paused the digitization project in 2021 because of the Covid-19 situation in Switzerland.

Timeline

• In the year 2021 we received around 5000 gramophone records and 7000 vinyl discs