Amsterdam,  1. April 2009

IASA-TC04 Second Edition released


IASA Technical Committee Standards, Recommended Practices and Strategies, IASA-TC04

Already an accepted authority in the sound archiving field, the second edition is a thoroughly revised and updated publication with substantial new information and chapters.

The second edition contains:

  • Guidance in metadata, thoroughly explained with examples. 
  • An entirely new structure on digital repositories which follows the OAIS guidelines.
  • An extensive amount of new information.
  • Guidance on small scale storage solutions.
  • Advice on out-sourced approaches.

Archiving needs international standards and best practice.

As the leading provider of archive migration solutions Cube-Tec takes the role as the IASA-TC04 Gold Sponsor to support the Second Edition. This will especially help small archives with tight budgets in many countries.

With the help of all sponsorships the price of this publication could be brought down from 35 Euro to reasonable 15 Euro.

IASA-TC04 Second Edition can be ordered directly at the IASA website.


About IASA

The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) was established in 1969 in Amsterdam to function as a medium for international co-operation between archives that preserve recorded sound and audiovisual documents.

IASA has members from more than 60 countries representing a broad palette of audiovisual archives and personal interests which are distinguished by their focus on particular subjects and areas, e.g. archives for all sorts of musical recordings, historic, literary, folkloric and ethnological sound documents, theatre productions and oral history interviews, bio-acoustics, environmental and medical sounds, linguistic and dialect recordings, as well as recordings for forensic purposes.

The Technical Committee is concerned with the preservation of audiovisual media and technically sustainable approaches to future access.

The Technical Committee devotes itself to all technical aspects of recording, storage and reproduction, including new recordings, transfer and storage technologies.

Joerg Houpert, Technical Director of Cube-Tec International is an IASA Sustaining Member since 2000.

The whole Cube-Tec team likes to thank the IASA members for orientation and friendship for more than a decade.


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