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Tony Rees Making folk club recordings available (190* d) RE: Making folk club recordings available 27 Sep 21


The above small exchange prompts some further thoughts, for those that have the patience to read further...

Up to now with this thread, I have been (mainly) addressing the stated topic which is "Making folk club recordings available", however in my mind I have been conflating it with a related but different issue, namely, creating a long term repository (archive) of this material, something I had already addressed (sort of) with my parallel archive of photographs, see other mudcat thread, "A repository for your music pictures...".

For pictures, I figured that I could use Wikimedia Commons as both an archive and as the means to make the material available; as a repository, it allows you to upload material of as high resolution exists (more or less) and you are happy to release for public re-use, also it is maintained "in perpetuity" (hopefully) by the Wikimedia Foundation, which is a non-commercial, public-good operation.

However for audio and/or video recordings, the vehicle I have settled on - YouTube - at least for now, is not really archival quality: video and, in particular audio are not stored at their original highest quality settings (although the HD video capacity is pretty good, and probably exceeds the low-to-medium resolution of most of my original videos), with the result that the question of a long term archive (preferably maintained in perpetuity by someone else, at no cost to the depositer) is not really answered at this time: when I pass on, my original materials will still most likely go to the tip. Thoughts, anyone?


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