| HD-51139-10 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | University of Washington | Collecting Online Music Project | 9/1/2010 - 4/30/2011 | $18,881.00 | Ann | Michele | Lally | John | Bellarmine | Vallier | University of Washington | Seattle | WA | 98195-1016 | USA | 2010 | Library Science | Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Digital Humanities | 18881 | 0 | 18881 | 0 | A planning meeting to discuss issues and possible solutions pertaining to the curation and preservation of born-digital music.
Music libraries are well positioned to collect, preserve, and provide access to sound recordings on such tangible formats as LP, CD, audio cassette, and even reel-to-reel tape. However, as music distribution moves into an increasingly online-only mode, music libraries face an array of disruptive collection, preservation, and access issues. How will music libraries adapt to online and "format-free" distribution models? How will they collect, preserve, and provide access to online music that's not part of a subscription package? The University of Washington Libraries requests Digital Humanities Start-up funding of $17,881 to hold a planning meeting to begin the development of a cooperative collection development, access, and preservation strategy for online music. This meeting will include participants from several academic libraries that have been grappling with this emerging issue. To insure a diversity of perspectives, input will also be solicited from mainstream and independent music industry representatives and advocates at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas. |