Wikimedia Digitization User Group/Reports/2022/January-December/CC0

CC-Zero-Project

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  • January-December 2022
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Report of the Year

• Period of the Report: January 6 - December 31

Facts

Collection

• 40'000 78 rpm gramophone records
• 39'000 LP records
• 2'000 Phonograph cylinders

People involved

• 1 Musicologist
• 1 Computer programmer (Coder)
• 1 Administrator

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 2023 as a speedy grant request)

Figures

Report

In January 2022 we planned to create a support association which lead in the future our International Sound Archives. To receive public subsidies in Switzerland you need to collect and preserve Swiss related material, called Helvetica. Unfortunately it is hard to find public domain records related to Switzerland. Since the first days of this archive in the year 2002 as part of the Swiss Internet Radio, we focus us on the preservation and making available public domain music from around the world.

In the year 2022 we have established the Musical Heritage organization as a support association. Our MediaWiki is now moved to pool.musicalheritage.org based on sponsored servers of the Swiss Foundation Public Domain and operated by the Zurich University of the Arts. Our digitization project is called now Sounds.earth and has replaced the CC0-Project. In the future we will only ask for project based grants. We plan to code an own instance on Wikidata to collect Metadata and Copyright cleared Sound files from our servers to made available in Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. We receive a lot of donations in the form of vinyl and 78 rpm records. Multiple records we will sale to finance the operating costs and to be more independent.

From February to December we have concentrated us on the sighting and sorting of our gramophone records. More than the half of the collection is now sorted by musical forms and styles in alphabetical order by the performer. We found a lot of multiple records which we want to exchange primarily with other material.

To continue the digitization project there is a lack of consumables like the Rek-o-Kut Archival Elliptical Stylus Kit for Stanton 500 and Pickering V-15. We also need glassine sleeves for 40,000 records.