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The Outreach Committee of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) posts the following message. If you have any questions, please click on the link below.

---- 2012 ARSC PRESERVATION GRANTS AWARDS ----

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[forwarded on behalf of Marcin Werla]
Dear colleagues,

I hope you will find this message interesting. In May this year together with Europeana Foundation, Polish National Audiovisual Institute and IT University of Copenhagen we are organizing a series of hackathons under a common name Hack4Europe! 2012.

http://pro.europeana.eu/hack4europe-2012

Hack4Europe 2012 Copenhagen is being coordinated by Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center in cooperation with IT University of Copenhagen. The event will take place on 10 and 11 May 2012 at IT University in Copenhagen.

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EUROPEANA INSIDE, a EU-funded network, is working to transform the ability of European cultural heritage institutions (museums, archives and libraries) to participate in the Europeana platform (europeana.eu).

The EUROPEANA INSIDE network includes 28 partners from 12 EU member states, with additional participants in the US and South Africa.

More details: http://europeanainside.eu/

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The Archive of Recorded Sound has completed the processing of four significant collections under the sponsorship of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) with funding from the AndrewW. Mellon Foundation which are now ready for use by researchers, students, musicians, and the public.

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EBulletin #10 is now available on the Publications page. Remember that you need to log into the IASA site using your member username and password in order to access the Ebulletin.

Screening the Future 2012: Play, Pause and Press Forward

May 21-23, 2012, Los Angeles

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The Second edition of IASA's landmark publication "TC 04"*, prepared by the IASA Technical Committee, is now available in hard copy translated into Spanish by Enric Giné and Marcos Sueiro and published by the Spanish Association for Music Documentation (AEDOM) :

http://www.iasa-web.org/audio-preservation-tc04

* IASA Technical Committee, Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects, ed. by Kevin Bradley. Second edition 2009. (= Standards, Recommended Practices and Strategies, IASA-TC 04).

IASA's highly acclaimed publication "TC 03"*, prepared by the IASA Technical Committee and available in seven languages, is now also published in Chinese for free download from:

http://www.iasa-web.org/tc03/ethics-principles-preservation-strategy

The translations was made by IASA Member Chun zen Huang, assisted by Bixuan Huan, in cooperation with Jiongde He. The editorial work was done by Dietrich Schüller in cooperation with Li Huang.

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Applications for Travel Grants have opened and IASA members are welcome to apply for a travel grant to attend the 2012 IASA Conference in New Delhi, India.

For more information, visit www.iasa-web.org/travel-grant.

Please note that Travel Grant applications will close on 30 April 2012.

Also be reminded that the IASA 2012 Call for Papers close on 28 February 2012. For more information about the Call for Papers visit http://2012.iasa-web.org

The IASA Executive Board has granted an extension for the submissions of proposals for presentations, posters and panel discussions for the 43rd IASA Annual Conference, to be held in New Delhi, India, 7-11 October 2012.

The closing date for submissions has been extended to February 28, 2012

Call for Papers for the 43rd IASA Annual Conference
New Delhi, India, 7 – 11 October 2012
Theme: In Transition: Access for All

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