Minutes of the AES Technical Committee on Archiving, Restoration and Digital Libraries

Meeting at the 110th AES Convention, Amsterdam 13 May 2001

21 participants in attendance:
	Stefano Cavaglieri
	George Brock-Nannestad
	Jim Ocenaier
	Boris Nevraou
	Wolfgang Krafft
	Nadje Wallaszkovits
	Ted Sheldon
	W.A. Deutsch
	Wieslaw Woszczyk
	Siegbert Herla
	Michale Brod
	Bill Allen
	Lucy Launder
	Chris Buchanan
	Gordon Reid
	Anders Dramstad
	Carl Nilsson
	Lars Gaustad
	Franz Lechleitner
	Dietrich Schuller
	David Ackerman
	
The Meeting was called to order by David Ackerman, TC co-chair.	
	

The group discussed the scope of the white paper we are charged with writing.
It was noted that the mission is to "spread the gospel" to the AES membership.
The issue of addressing cultural heritage was raised. The decision to not
tackle this topic was agreed to without objection. It was noted that other
organizations, better equipped to handle this topic, are already working on
documents that address the issue and that we need not re-invent the wheel.

The question of whether we should ask another group to write the white paper
for us was raised.  The discussion that followed pointed out the
AES has more clout in the audio marketplace than many of the groups that 
could be asked to undertake the project.  However, it was decided that where
appropriate, our white paper should reference the work of others.

The chairperson suggested that we continue with the topics of manpower,
machine and media with the addition of metadata/management. Another suggestion
was that we cover the structure of the body of work and the choices involved.
The artifact has a function but also an information purpose. In the early
stages restoration means repair of the artifact. Later, it becomes a matter
of retaining as much of the information as possible.

Additionally, attention must be paid to the secondary information, for source
critical work. This includes background noise. It was pointed out that the 
archive cannot decide what is primary and what is secondary information
without prescribing the use of the item.

There was agreement that masters are more valued than use copies.

We were alerted that IASA is working on "recommended Practice for Safeguarding 
the Audio Heritage" and that it should be ready in September.

A writing team was formed:
	
	Dietrich Schuller
	George Brock-Nannestad
	Gordon Reid
	
	With David Ackerman as the chair.
	
	Ted Sheldon volunteered to assist Mr. Ackerman in the editing of the document.
	
The writing team will periodically post their contributions to the list for 
comment.  Mr Ackerman will work to integrate each persons contributions into
a final document.

The next meeting will be held at the NY AES Convention in September. It was 
suggested that we should also meet in October just before the Buddhapest AES meeting.