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The Glastonbury New Bands Competition Collection at the British Library: Technical challenges of migrating an optical disk collection

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  • Ruane, Tom

    (British Library, 96 Euston Road, UK)

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The Glastonbury Festival kindly donated the 2004–2009 entries for its Emerging Talent Competition to the British Library for long-term preservation. The collection comprises more than 4,000 optical disks, primarily Compact Disk-Recordable (CD-R), and was migrated to a stable file-based format in 2019, as part of the Library’s Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project. Migration presented many challenges — while large parts of the workflow could be automated, and the audio data extracted verifiably bit-perfect and faster than real time, the collection is populated by poor-quality CD-R stock with many examples written using low-quality domestic burners, making the process of data extraction significantly more complex. The Library not only had to develop a multi-stage workflow with sufficient capacity to process the large quantity of disks in an efficient manner, but the workflow also had to be easily adjustable to accommodate the 1:1 transfer of severely damaged or degraded disks. This paper outlines the step-by-step technical workflow and the hardware/software employed to extract this unique content for long-term preservation.

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  • Ruane, Tom, 2021. "The Glastonbury New Bands Competition Collection at the British Library: Technical challenges of migrating an optical disk collection," Journal of Digital Media Management, Henry Stewart Publications, vol. 10(1), pages 53-61, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:aza:jdmm00:y:2021:v:10:i:1:p:53-61
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    Keywords

    cultural heritage; audio-visual; archive; preservation; compact disk; workflow;
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    JEL classification:

    • M11 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Production Management
    • M15 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - IT Management

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