Capture
Personnel
- The Reserves Coordinator in User Services coordinates digitizing requests and
supervises student assistants.
- Student technicians (approximately 30 hours per week) perform all of the capture
and related text file creation.
Basics
- Each sound file is equal to one CD, one tape, or one side of an LP
- Audio sampling rate: 44.1 kHz
- Sample size: 16 bits
- Two channels (stereo)
- File format: Microsoft's WAV (almost a de facto standard for digital audio on PCs)
- Capture does not include editing
- Creation of "track" files and ".not" files for incorporation of textual information into the user interface
- Addition of URL to bibliographic record in online catalog
Process
Software: Compact Discs
- Disc-to-Disk from Microtest (no longer available for purchase)
Software: LPs and Tapes
Hardware
- 3 Pentium II PCs running Windows 95
- 64M RAM
- 2 GB SCSI hard drive for operating system
- 4 GB SCSI hard drive for file storage (1 CD WAV file = approximately 700
megabytes)
- Toshiba 6201 SCSI CD-ROM drive
- Gina sound card by Echo (distributed by Event Electronics)