Charles Hosale, A/V Project Archivist, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Archives Dana Gerber-Margie, Audio Archivist, Wisconsin Historical Society Is your organization facing a collection of aging a/v formats that you wish to digitize for preservation or access, and you’re not sure how to proceed? UWM Archives A/V Project Archivist Charlies Hosale and WHS Audio Archivist Dana Gerber-Margie share their respective experiences with vendor based and in-house digitization of audio and visual materials such as VHS, 35mm film, audiocassettes, and vinyl. Dana will discuss the innovative in-house digitization initiatives at the Wisconsin Historical Society. Charles will present UWM’s quality control workflow for A/V materials that utilizes open source programs, such as Sonic Visualizer, QCTools, MediaInfo, and Fixity to ensure the fidelity of digitized records. Attendees will leave with an introduction to current A/V digitization and quality control topics and techniques, practical understanding of and exposure to relevant software and resources, an implementable A/V digitization workflow designed for use in small and middle-sized cultural heritage institutions, and the feeling that they too can tackle A/V materials without being format and digitization experts.

1. WiLSWorld 2015
Dana Gerber-Margie
Audio Archivist
Wisconsin Historical Society

3. Audio at WHS
Before 1975: Attempted to master each new accession
1975-2009: On-demand analog masters (7” open reel)
2008-2010: Transition to digital
2010: Stopped analog mastering
2010-2014: Gold CD & external hard drives
2014-current: Cloud storage

4. super fancy
page 1
super textypage 2

5. checklist for consistency

6. our Studer <3

7. TASCAM 122 MK III
Technics Direct
Drive Turntable

8. the beauty of checklists
SoundForge
Patch Bay

9. Digital Preservation Tidbits

10. Future Goals
● Recruit more volunteers
and students
● More large-scale
planned preservation &
digitization projects
● Collection survey to
assess high risk
● Improve digital
preservation procedures
● Make position full-time,
permanent

11. Hey thanks!
@theaudiosignal
danaegerbermargie@gmail.com
askaudio@wisconsinhistory.org