Music 9 - 4th quarter - Vocal Music of the Romantic Period.pptx
Namaganda agnes
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2. Makerere University is the oldest University in East
Africa-established 1922. It became a fully-fledged
Institution of Higher Learning and National University in
July1970.
At the heart of the University is MakLib founded in 1940.
It is a legal depository library of Uganda and United
Nations materials.
MakLib has 400,000 volumes of monographs and 82,000
volumes of bound serials.
MakLib serves a population of approximately 40,000
users, consisting of about 3,911staff, 35,000 students
and external users.
3. The Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
The Uganda Museum (1908)-Field
recordings and musical instruments
The Uganda Popular Music Archive Project
(2002)-Commercial recordings
The Global Music Archive (2003)-
Traditional music
4. Makerere University Digital Music Archive
is a multi-media archive for traditional,
popular and art music, recited word,
dances and stories and recollections of
musicians and dancers of Uganda.
(http://musicarchive.mak.ac.ug)
5.
6. The archive fosters the educational and
cultural role of Makerere University through
the preservation and access to music and
oral traditions.
7. Music scores, manuscripts and transcriptions
Personal
stories and recollections of
musicians and dancers
Legal music deposits
Fieldrecordings (contains a huge collection
of Klaus Wachsmann and Peter Cooke)
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10. Conception
By 2004, MakLib had made initial contacts with digitization
projects (under collaborative linkages with Tufts
University; the University of Tennessee and the
University of Bergen)
USDL is the first comprehensive digitization project at
MakLib
An interdisciplinary committee
Noted that documentation of Uganda’s musical cultural
heritage was not accessible
Envisaged an Archive for documenting, preserving and
disseminating Uganda’s traditional music to scholars and
other researchers
Makerere University Digital Music Archive
11. Library Management
Ugandan Ethnomusicologist, researcher &
Associate professor at Makerere University
Music Librarian
Music Archivist
Digitization Librarian
Library Cataloguers
Collectors-Ethnomusicologists
DICTs
12. NORAD
The American Embassy in Uganda
The Grieg Academy, University of Bergen
The University of Bergen Library
13. Makerere University & University of Bergen
MakLib & University of Bergen Library
The Grieg Academy & MDD
The American Embassy
The British Library Sound Archives
14. 2004: Library conceives idea
2005: USDL project
2006: USDL launched
2006: Collaboration established
2007: NORAD funding arrived
2007: Partitioning of the Archive
2008: Music Librarian travels to Norway
2008: Software installation & pilot project
2009: Digital Archive launched
2010: Collecting of field recordings
15. Reel-to-reel player
Compact Cassette player
Amplifier, sound card
Turntable
Apple computers
Field recorder
Scanner
Printer
Earphones
19. Customization of default template in
Dspace
Creating communities & sub communities
MARC21 (Printed materials)
Dublin core
20. Is
the conversion of analogue records to a
universal computer readable language
Why digitize?
Access Preservation
Original media was fragile playback
equipment was scarce
The original condition is threatened !
21. Itis crucial that the process results in files
in the right format and right quality so they
can be reused and secured for the future!
Eachrecording was converted to more than
one computer file
Sampling rate (44.1 kHz)
Sample size (16 bits stereo)
22. Each photograph is scanned at archival quality
(8-bit gray scale with a jpeg reference image)
Black & White photographs were scanned at 8-
bit
Coloured pictures were scanned at 24-bit
TIFF files are scanned from textual data
23. Internally accepted standards
Ensure that bits/bytes can be reused in
future
Audio
.aiff (preservation) ; .mp3 (Access)
Sheet music
.tiff (preservation) ; .jpeg (Access)
Video
.avi (preservation) ; .mp4 (Access)
24. Preservation Access/
promotion
audio .aiff .mp3/ (Compressed file format)
.wma (Windows Media Audio)
Sheet music .tiff .jpg, gif (Tagged Image File Format) Joint
Photographic
(lossy compression for digital Experts
photography) Group
(Graphics Interchange Format)
lossless data compression
technique to reduce the file
size without degrading the
visual quality.
video .avi mov, mp4 (mp4-allows streaming over
the Internet).
(Audio Visual Interleave files
support multiple streaming
audio and video)
(mov- compressed multimedia
format often used for saving
movies and other video files)
25. Agroup of three ethnomusicologists-Four
major regions (North, East, Central and
West)
So far:
835 items of audio recordings
1100 items of video recording
1000 photo items/objects
26. All Library registered users
External users pay library fees
OPAC (Finding aid)
Digital music repository
Restricted access to some sound recordings
Listening and viewing facilities
(workstations)
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29. Copyright is a complex issue that strongly
impacts the selection of materials for
digitization
Technology has a short life cycle
(technology requirements)
Human resource development
Project Communication
Teamwork & team building crucial
Building partnerships & collaborations
30. Procurement planning is vital to avoid
unnecessary delays
The budgeting process should take
into consideration staff costs-
motivation
31. Need for constant migration
Create an online streaming repository
Buildingpartnerships with cultural
heritage institutions
Training & re-training staff
32. Digitisation
provides visibility and access to this
unique collections and a historical context for the
appreciation and understanding of Ugandan
musical cultural heritage.
Therefore there is need to continue the journey
on this revolutionary path towards preserving the
musical cultural heritage. Challenges should be
addressed and opportunities embraced in
preserving and promoting access to information.
Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a bitmap image format. Lossless data compression technique to reduce the file size without degrading the visual quality.TIFF: Tagged Image File Format) is a file format for storing images
JPEG: Lossy compression for digital photography; .bwf: Broadcast Wave Format .wma-Windows Media Audio.avi-Audio Video Interleave files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback. TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)format is widely supported by image-manipulation applications ; (mp4-downloading video clips)