Lars Gaustad's talk at the British Library event Keeping Tracks, April 2014.

1. Keeping Tracks, British Library, 21 March 2014
Lars Gaustad
National Library of Norway

2. A multimedial
digital library
Digitisation adopted as
a long term preservation strategy
Preferred digital (i.e. files) deposit of new material

3. Digitising the collection
1 000 books digitised every week
1 000 000 book pages every month
40 000 newpaper pages from original every week
200 000 newspaper pages from microfilm monthly
P.t. ca 350 000 books (> 75 % of all norwegian titles!)
P.t. ca 15 600 000 newspaper pages (approx. 20 % of
the norwegian newspaper collection)

4. Digital collection
-> 640 000 newspapers (ca 15,6 mill. pages)
-> 350 000 books (> 50 mill pages)
-> 375 000 pages manuscripts and music manuscripts
-> 670 000 photos
-> 920 000 hours of radio
-> 490 000 hours of television
-> 23 000 units of music
-> 9 000 units of film/video

5. Digital storage
Current:
3 * 6 Petabyte
Disk + 2 * tape
SAM-FS archive file system
Average growth 6 Tbytes / day,
Peaking at 10 TB
2014: + 1,8 petabyte * 3

6. Digitising multitracks
1 & 2 inch analogue,
MD & DASH formats
To
EBU RF64 files

11. http://www.nb.no/Om-NB/Pliktavlevering/Hva-skal-pliktavleveres/Musikk/Digital-pliktavlevering-av-musikk

12. Black hole

13. Norwegian Parliament 2009:
National Library and National
Archives responsible for offering
long-term digital preservation
services to the cultural heritage
sector

14. AES31-1-2001 (r2011)
Standard for network and file transfer of audio —
Audio-file transfer and exchange —
Part 1: Disk format

15. AES31-2-2012
Revision of AES31-2-2006
AES standard on network and file
transfer of audio –
Audio-file transfer and exchange –
File format for transferring
digital audio data
between systems of different type and manufacture

16. AES31-3-2008
(reaffirmed 2013)
AES standard
for network and file transfer of audio -
Audio-file transfer and exchange –
Part 3: Simple project interchange

17. The US
Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing:
Recommendation for Delivery of Recorded Music
Projects
(Including Stems and Mix Naming Conventions)

19. mediaSERVICES is a Sustaining Member of IASA