While attractive in their convenience, a digital format has huge
preservation issues on down the road as these current formats become legacy
technologies. Memory Stick, MP3, Mini-Disk, etc., could be very short-lived
formats given the speed of change.
A standard professional-grade cassette deck (not dictation micro-cassettes)
such as still made by Marantz, recorded onto 60 minute high quality tapes,
is still your best bet for maintaining the original for an extended period.
Offering copies on CD is still an option down the line.
On 6/5/02 9:06 AM, "Sandra Smith" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> We are about to begin an oral history project with an elderly gentleman, and
> so I'm shopping for recorders. I had planned on using traditional
> microcassettes which we would then transcribe. But in shopping, I came
> across the digital recorders, especially the Sony Memory Stick, which works
> much like a digital camera, with removable memory cards that you then
> download to your PC.
>
> I'm beginning to think this might be a much better way to go. We'd be able
> to save the sound files to cd-rom and they'd be much more permanent and
> accessible to others down the road than a microcassette. And the Memory
> Stick comes with software that will do the transcription for you, always a
> bonus, especially when time is of the essence, as it is in this case.
>
> Have any of you ever used a digital recorder for an oral history project? I
> would appreciate some advice, especially since the Memory Stick is much
> pricier than a standard microcassette recorder.
>
> Thanks!
> Sandra Smith
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