The Preservation of the Audio Heritage of Namibia. Challenges and Opportunities

The Preservation of the Audio Heritage of Namibia. Challenges and Opportunities

"Namibia has a rich intangible cultural heritage. There is an urgent need to record more of it, but there is also a wealth of already recorded oral heritage and music that is in danger of being irretrievably lost if the opportunities of preserving it are not grasped. Decisive steps must be taken in the near future in terms of – Identifying, – collecting, – repatriating, – cataloguing, – storing, – and migrating from obsolete formats and data carriers. The necessary steps include – legislative provisions, – norms, standards and guidelines, – institutional empowerment, – institutional coordination, – human resource capacity building, – physical capacity building. In the context of this presentation, I shall concentrate on sound recordings only, excluding sound recorded in connection with audiovisual sources. However, much of what is discussed here, applies to the audiovisual heritage as well." BAB Working Paper 2010:01 Presented at the Sound Archives Workshop, Windhoek, University of Namibia 4 December 2009

Werner Hillebrecht

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Basler Afrika Bibliographien

2010

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