Audio Preservation of Wax Cylinders and Other Grooved Media

Description: 

Tom Rieger of the NEDCC discusses an innovative system for recover audio from damaged wax cylinders and records called IRENE. This session provides updates on NEDCC's progress on this IMLS grant project to bring the IRENE technology to cultural institutions across the nation, and will provide some wonderful listening from days gone by as well. This presentation was given at the 2014 ATALM Conference in Palm Springs, California. For more information on NEDCC's IRENE project, go to https://www.nedcc.org/audio-preservation/irene-blog/.