From SCOSAA

Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 How you can help 2 Types of Media 2.1 Photographic Processes 2.2 Mechanical 2.3 Magnetic 2.3.1 Sound Recording 2.3.2 Audiovisual 2.3.3 Computer 2.4 Optical 2.5 Solid State 2.6 Unsorted

Introduction

SCoSAA and Panopticon, student groups representing the Society of American Archivists and the Art Libraries Society, are building a collection of obsolete media for use by GSLIS students and faculty. The collection will include items such as wire recordings, glass plate negatives, and laserdiscs – items that many current students are unfamiliar with. Our scope includes physical media used to store data for audio, visual, and digital purposes; it does not include equipment or software used to record or read information. The collection will be stored in the cataloging lab, with long-term plans to develop exhibits. Prof. Martha Mahard, the advisor for Panopticon, has agreed to serve as the collection committee’s advisor and faculty liaison.

This collection is designed to provide GSLIS with a teaching tool supporting the archives and preservation curricula - providing hands-on learning and illustrating the importance of both analog and digital preservation efforts. Specifically, it will complement the following courses:

• 424 (moving image collections in libraries and archives)
• 439 (preservation management)
• 440 (archival access and use)
• 444 (archiving and preserving digital media)
• 471 (photographic archives)

How you can help

To make this project a success, we need your help to gather examples from the entire range of audio, visual, and digital recording media. Since we are only interested in the items as physical artifacts, we can make use of blank, mildly damaged, or otherwise unwanted items. See the incomplete list below for ideas of what we're looking for. If you have items that you think may be of interest, please contact gladson@simmons.edu with a description of your items. We will compare your list with our current holdings, and coordinate donations as applicable. For most items, 4 examples will be enough (Simmons has two campuses).

Note: due to preservation, security, and legal concerns, we cannot accept items on loan. If your items have value, please keep them. All items will become the property of Simmons College GSLIS at the time of donation, with complete authority of disposal, per donor agreement.

What we don't want:

• items of personal or monetary value
• items with mold
• large quantities of the same item
• recording or playback equipment

Items in bold have been offered, shipped, or received

Types of Media

We would like to thank Elizabeth Walters of Harvard University's Weissmann Preservation Center for her contributions to this list. The University of Michigan's Chamber of Horrors was another major source of information. See also resources under Obsolete Media Formats.

Do you know of more media that aren't listed here? Please tell us (gladson@simmons.edu)!

Photographic Processes

• Glass lantern slides (received)
• 35mm slides
• Stereoviews
• Autochromes
• Daguerrotypes
• Calotype
• Collotype (1 received)

Collodion wet plate process

• Ambrotype
• Tintype/ferrotype/melainotype (received)

• Motion Picture Film: 8mm, super 8, 16mm, 35mm (on nitrocellulose, acetate, and polyesther bases), and 70mm (IMAX)
• Microfilm
• Microfiche

Mechanical

• Cylinders ["there is a lot of variety in this category!... Wax cylinders are actually a subset of phonograph cylinders, which includes cylinders made of many types of material (including tinfoil, celluloid, and wax---natural and synthetic)." -E.W.]
  • Edison Blue Amberol cylinder record phonograph 4M-559 (1 received, other variations desired)
• Mechanical dictation belts (see also magnetic dictation belts)
• Mechanical platters (Phonodiscs) ["again, lots and LOTS of variety within this format" -E.W.]
• Music rolls
• Book music
• Sonoband
• SoundScriber
• Gray Audograph (dictation disk)
• Vinyl records: LP and 45 rpm

Magnetic

Sound Recording

• Magnetic dictation belts (received Dictaphone 420921 1" x 4800' Recording Tape)
• Magnetic wire recordings (see Gretchen King's manual)
  • Wire Reel (received)
  • Wire Cassette
• 4-track cartridge
• 8-track cartridge or Stereo 8
• Sound Tape Cartridge
• Open Reel Tape (aka reel to reel): 7" and 10 1/2" diameter (both 1/4" wide) (shipped both 7" and 10 1/2")
• NAB cart (Fidelipac): A, AA, and 1200
• Playtape
• Minicassette
• Microcassette
• Steno-Cassette
• Elcaset
• Picocassette
• Compact cassette ["the correct term---strictly speaking---for 'audio cassette'" -E.W.]
• DAT (digital audio tape)
• ADAT (Alesis digital audio tape)
• RDAT
• DCC (Digital Compact Cassette)

Audiovisual

(see Videotape Formats from TerraGuide)

Analog

• Panasonic Video Cartridge (see VideoPreservation)
• Philips "VCR" (Videocassette Recorder) (see Wikipedia)
• V-Cord I and II
• VHS (video home system) cassette tapes: VHS (received), S-VHS (super), D-VHS, W-VHS, VHS-C (compact), S-VHS-C (super compact), D-9
• M and MII (from Panasonic)
• Video2000 (aka VCC, Video Compact Cassette, and V2000)
• Video8 (8mm)
• Hi8 (also comes in digital versions)
• Betamax (1/2-inch) (received TDK L-750 BETAMAX SONY Video Beta Tapes)
• Betacam: Betacam and Betacam SP (from Sony)
• U-Matic: 3/4-inch and SP
• Quad (2-inch)
• Cartrivision
• Autovision
• Instavision/Instavideo

Digital

• Betacam: Digital Betacam, Betacam SX, HDCAM (two sizes), and HDCAM SR
• DV or DVC (Digital Videocassette)
• MiniDV
• DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, and DVCPro HD (from Panasonic)
• DVCAM (from Sony)
• DCT (Data Component Technology) digital videocassette (only produced by Ampex)
• Component Digital Cassette: D1, D2, D3, D5, D5 HD, D9/Digital-S
• DTRS (digital tape recording system, aka Hi8)
• Digital 8

Computer

• Floppy discs: 8", 5 1/4", and 3 1/2" (1 example of 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" received, additional copies desired)
• Computer cartridge media
  • Syquest disks: Sparq, SyJet, and EzFlyer
  • Iomega disks: Zip, Jaz, Clik!, and PocketZip
• Computer tape: cassettes, 9-track reel (1/2 inch), IBM 3480, QIC, QIC-wide, G2000 QIC-40, Travan, 8mmD-eight, DG90M, DC4 120, DLT, 4mm, Ditto Max (see Chamber of Horrors), Linear Tape Open (LTO-1, LTO-2, LTO-3, and LTO-4), DLT Tape (Digital Linear Tape, aka CompacTape), SDLT (Super DLT), DDS (Digital Data Storage)

Optical

• Computer punch media (see Chamber of Horrors)
  • Punch tape
  • Rectangular hole punch card (received)
  • Aperture cards (offered)
• LaserDisc (12"), (aka Discovision, Reflective Optical Videodisc, Laser Videodisc, Laservision, Disco-Vision, DiscoVision, and MCA DiscoVision; see Wikipedia)
• Magneto-optical Discs
  • Sound: MiniDisc and Hi-MD
  • Computer: 12" optical, 5.25" optical, and floptical (see Chamber of Horrors)
• Compact disc: Audio CD, CD + Graphics, CD-Text, Super Audio CD, Video CD, Super Video CD, CD-MIDI, CD-ROM, Video CD, Super Video CD, Enhanced CD (aka CD Extra and CD Plus), CD-R, CD-RW, MO (magneto-optical) 5.25 650GB, 5.1 Music Disc, SACD (Super Audio CD), PhotoCD, CD Video (CDV), Video CD (VCD), SVCD, CD+G, CD-Text, CD-ROM XA, CD-i
• Video Single Disc (VSD)
• UDO (Ultra Density Optical) (cartridge)
• DualDisc
• DVD: DVD, DVD-ROM, DVD-Audio, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RW DL, DVD+RW DL, DVD-RAM, DVD-D, HD DVD, HD DVD-R, HD DVD-RW
• Forward Versatile Disc
• HVD (High-Definition Versatile Disc) and HD VMD (High-Definition Versatile Multilayer Disc)
• Blu-Ray: BD, BD-R, BD-RE
• CBHD Disc (China Blue High Definition)
• Universal Media Disk (UMD) (Sony PlayStation portable)
• EVD (Enhanced Versatile Disc)
• DataPlay 500MB write once discs (see picture at DataPlay.com)
• Digital Video Express (DIVX) (a failed competitor of DVDs)
• Digital Multilayer Disc/Fluorescent Multilayer Disc

Solid State

• Digital camera memory cards: SmartMedia, CompactFlash, Memory Stick, MultiMedia Card, SD Memory Card, and xD Picture Card
• USB flash drives
• Ipods

Unsorted

These were on Elizabeth Walter's list, but we don't know what they are

• Micro Pack
• Mail Call Letter Pack
• F-1 (Beta) {Is this Sony's PCM-F1? see this website}