The ILKAR -project - Integrated solutions for conservation, archiving and restoration of magnetic tapes and wax-cylinder

  • Dr Lars-Cristian Koch, Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, Germany
  • The Department for Ethnomusicology; Media-Technique and Berlin Phonogram Archive at the Ethnological Museum Berlin houses aside from its important wax-cylinder collection a huge collection of old magnetic tape recordings still in considerably good condition. As this collections have to undergo conservation, archiving and restoration the Museum applied for a project to develop solutions which integrate all aspects from the first steps of estimation of the current condition of the media carriers to easy accessible possibilities of conservation and restoration, the direct process of digital archiving and the publishing of the material. The project is searching for solutions to keep all this in a constant workflow. This will be done in cooperation with the Rathgen Research Laboratory in Berlin and several international advisers.