Phonogrammarchiv (Austrian Audiovisual Research Archive of the Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Category: Audio-visual documents

The Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences is Austria's scientific audio-visual archive. The archive has specialised in the scientific digitisation of audio and video recordings.

Since 2000, all new entries have been archived in digital form; the digitisation of video recordings commenced in 2001. Currently, only analogue objects from 1899-1950 are digitised retrospectively.

The main focus of the collection is recordings in the fields of ethnology, ethno-musicology, linguistics, and bio-acoustics.

Language: Multilingual

Access: restricted (access for scientific reasons)

Size: approx. 60,000 objects (approx. 8,100 hours)

Standards: IASA TC 03; for analogue material: wav file (96 kHz, 24 bit); for digital original material (R-dat): wav files in original resolution (mainly 48 kHz, 16 bit)

Legal status: Non-profit

Target audience(s): Scientific community

Owner

Phonogrammarchiv der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Contact: Katharina Thenius-Wilscher
[www.pha.oeaw.ac.at]