The preservation of digital media, whether music or image, is becoming a crucial question to art historians, musicologists, audiolovers and others involved in the electronic arts. Converting artworks from analog to digital media, and finding ways to retrieve digital information as new technologies develop and formats change, are difficult issues.

Here's some links :



http://www.lib.washington.edu/Music/preservation.html - University Of Washington

http://www.loc.gov/rr/record/ - Recorded Sound Reference Center.

http://home.flash.net/~mrltapes/ - Magnetic Reference Laboratory.

http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/recording/notes.html - Recording Technology History.

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ars/ - Stanford University Archive of Recorded Sound.

http://www.vadlyd.dk/English/RIAA_and_78_RPM_preamp.html - 78 RPM and RIAA Record Preamplifier.

A lot of food for thought.