I'm looking for two people to log some of these recordings and help me refine the process. I've got around 350 hours of recordings in digital form so far and I recently got approval from the FSGW board to do the logging.

What I want is for people who will volunteer to do two things: listen to and annotate some recordings, and help me figure out the best ways to capture the results. Right now, the second is more important than the first.

I think the best way to do this is for interested people to sign up by posting something in this thread. Give me some way to contact you and I'll send you details. So, After you see the second person reply, please wait till the open call to volunteer.

You do NOT have to be an FSGW member to do this. You DO have to sign an agreement that says you won't keep or distribute the recordings and that you assign copyright to your notes to FSGW. We'll give the notes to the LoC.

The recordings will be available (some already are) through the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. We have permission from the artists to make archival recordings, but absolutely NOT to distribute them.

Since FSGW will own the copyright to the notes, we plan to make them available to the general public and of course to the LoC. How to make them available is part of the process that we still need to define.

After a few of us work out the process a little more, I plan to request everyone to read the process and help us improve it. After that, I'll open this up for everyone interested to help with the logging.

Thanks,
Pat