April 26, 2021 10:48 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/26/22404361/internet-archive-digitize-records-great-78-project
Heres how the Internet Archive digitizes 78rpm records
The Internet Archive, in partnership with George Blood LP, has been working since 2016 to digitize thousands of 78rpm records, some of which were made in the early 1900s. Over 250,000 records have been preserved, and the archive posted a Twitter thread yesterday detailing how each record is cleaned and filed away.
At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize #78 rpm records.
ā Internet Archive (@internetarchive) April 25, 2021
Our partner @georgeblood_lp has perfected this technique, digitizing with 4 different styli at once.
We put as much effort into capturing the #metadata as we do digitizing the music. pic.twitter.com/dn4EjXTS9z
Each record is cleaned on a machine that sprays distilled water onto its surface. A little vacuum...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/26/22404361/internet-archive-digitize-records-great-78-project
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