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With this EU-Tender DR will digitize a large collection of ¼” audiotapes. The collection consists of estimated 177 000-200 000 tapes containing 72 000-82 000 hours of recordings; mainly published material. The project consists of transporting, digitizing, delivering of digital files and destroying the audiotapes after the digitalization.
DR’s collection of ¼" audiotapes must be digitized to preserve it as a cultural heritage. Digitization needs to be done without loss of media essence or metadata.
• The tapes are from 1950s to 2006. It is mainly published programs within all genres. However, it also includes unpublished productions, e.g. concert recordings.
• The tapes are from various manufacturers.
• The tapes are on reels, not cores.
• The reels are mostly 10” (app. 80 %) and 7” (app. 20 %). A small amount is 5” or even smaller reels (<5 %).
• Each tape is held in a cardboard box. Each box may also hold paper describing the contents of the tape, small booklets, and other audio-formats than a ¼" audiotape.
• The speeds of the recordings are 15” and 7½”. A small sub-collection may run at lower speed.
• Tapes are mostly stereo. Older tapes are mono. Small sub-collections may contain 2 or 4 track recordings.
• Tapes are mostly filled with content but may also have various length of blank tape after true content.
• Telcom noise reduction is widely used on tapes from the 1980s and forward.
• Other labels on the boxes than the barcodes are often not well attached.
• Overall, the tapes are in good condition and recordings are of broadcast quality done by professional technicians.
• All boxes that are easily identified as other formats than ¼” audiotapes have been removed by DR before packing. But some smaller formats could be stored in the ¼” audiotape boxes and have not been located and removed.
• All tapes are stored in cardboard boxes for transport. Each box contains around 28 tapes all with the barcodes visible for easy scanning. The cardboard boxes are owned by DR. Ownership of the cardboard boxes passes to the Supplier and the boxes should not to be returned to DR.
• Cardboard boxes are barcoded and stored in containers (standard containers, 20 feet long). The containers are owned by Holger Danske Flytteforretning.