This document discusses a project to digitize approximately 40,000 reels from Kol Israel's audio collection over the course of a year. The process involved gathering reels from storage, hydrating very old materials, digitizing the audio, and performing quality assurance checks on the output. Metadata was collected from existing databases and paper records to provide information about broadcast dates and content. The digitized audio was converted to different formats and loaded into storage systems for preservation at Harvard and Rashut Hashidur.

1. KOL ISRAEL
AUDIO
DIGITIZATION
Dantec Ltd
Nov 2015
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2. KOL ISRAEL AUDIO COLLECTION
Digitization of the “Current events”
1 year long project
Digitize an approximate amount of 40’000 reels
Reels stored on shelves
Each reel has a code that leads to its data
(content)
Not all data is actually typed. Some is typed on
paper
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3. CONTROL SYSTEM
 Create an efficient control SW
 Location
 Status
 Comments (Mostly technical – reel condition)
Bar code (included the program original code
and content)
Relevant content only

4. THE MAIN CHALLENGES
A lot of valuable very old material – most could
not be directly digitized
Content data and information is not fully
‘digitized’
Time frame

5. THE PROCESS
5
RH Gathered
(700-1000 reels)
Sent to Dantec
Received @
Dantec
Hydration
process (24 hrs
to a week)
Digitization
QA: Internal QA
(verify content by
listening)
QA: Sent digital
copy for quality
assurance
Sent to Rashut
Hashidur and
backup
Stored and
registered
complete

6. THE PROCESS CONT.
At least 3 batches present at Dantec
 Hydration and readyniess for digitization
 Actual digitization
 QA (internal and external)
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Received
@ Dantec
Hydration
process
Digitization QA Sent
out

7. QUALITATIVE DATA
 Created a DB that connected existing data of all
relevant the broadcast items
• Including broadcast date and broadcast content
• Excel data from Rashut Hashidur
• Scanned paper-typed content - OCR
• Connected to the URNs produced at Harvards’ post
loading to the Harvard Database Repository System
 Created an orderly and full information when loading to
Aleph
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8.  Output formats. Reservation format (WAVE) converted
to:
 MP2 for Rashut hashidur (non standard – used a special convertor)
 MP3 - copy at Harvard
 Approx. 40K reels which represent approx. 30,000
broadcast hrs.
 Project finished after 11 intensive months.
 Is being loaded to the Harvard Information system
these days.
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9. KOL ISRAEL AUDIO
DIGITIZATION
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