The conference takes place at the United States Library of Congress Packard Campus of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, and will also include a tour of the entire facility, including recorded sound, film and video storage vaults, processing areas and preservation labs.
2018 AES International Conference on Audio Archiving, Preservation & Restoration
Some important themes will be addressed including:
• Physical/object based preservation and material science
• Handling and storage of audio carriers
• New trends in material research
• Preservation by digitization
• Mechanical vs. optical transfer
• Magnetic media
• Digitization, and restoration of historical obsolete disc formats
• Preservation issues for emerging high-end audio formats
• Preserving legacy professional formats
• Multi-track tapes and obsolete digital formats
• Storage and access technology
• Current state and future development of digital archives
• Role of archives in preserving commercial audio
• Aesthetic considerations in digital restoration of historical audio
The Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation (www.loc.gov/avconservation) is in Culpeper, Virginia, approximately 75 miles southwest of Washington, DC. Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) is about an hour’s drive away and provides air access to all over the world. Culpeper, Virginia is also by Amtrak Rail from New York and Washington, DC.
Located at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Culpeper, Virginia, the Library's Packard Campus of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center provides underground storage for this entire collection on 90 miles of shelving, together with extensive modern facilities for the acquisition, cataloging and preservation of all audio-visual formats. The Packard Campus was created through a unique partnership between the Packard Humanities Institute, the United States Congress, the Library of Congress, and the Architect of the Capitol.
The Library of Congress holds the United States largest public collection of sound recordings containing music, spoken word and radio broadcasts, nearly 3.5 million recordings in all. Over 110 years of sound recordings history is represented in nearly every audio format, from cylinders to CDs, covering a wide range of subjects and genres in considerable depth and breadth
Conference participants will enjoy a special Thursday evening concert featuring Dom Flemons, the Grammy Award winning folk musician and founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Jerry Fabris, Curator of the Thomas A. Edison Historical Site, will be on hand to make wax cylinder recordings and the audience will produce the recordings! The festivities will begin with a short historic film on audio. The concert is included with the registration.
The final Saturday evening social event will be held at Mountain Run Winery, situated between Lake Pelham and Mountain Run Lake, and only 5 minutes from downtown Culpeper. Included in the registration fee is a buffet style open grill barbecue dinner, two glasses of wine, live local music, silent movies projected against the side of a barn and ample chairs and couches sprawling across a bucolic farm setting for conversations.
Full program available here: http://www.aes.org/conferences/2018/archiving/downloads/programme.pdf
June 28-30, 2018
AES International Conference on Audio Archiving, Preservation & Restoration
United States Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Culpeper, VA, USA
www.aes.org/conferences/2018/archiving/
