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SFPD - Swiss Foundation Public Domain

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• 2012 - Timeline: English, German

February

• The Zurich University of the Arts offers the free housing of our file servers

March

• The 77th digitized file of our collection is available to download: March Religioso (Wikimedia Commons file) by the Arthur Pryor's Band

April

• Christoph Zimmermann is a speaker on the Easterhegg 2012 ( file of the presentation) in Basel
• We have optimized the sampling rate of the digitization process to 24-bit/192 kHz (audio recording in studio quality)
• The first digitized Emile Berliner gramophone record is rights cleared and online: Pistonette Polka (Wikimedia Commons file) by La Garde Républicaine de Paris (produced by the Gramophone and Typewriter Company in 1902)

May

• We have relocated all our file servers to the ITZ (network operations center) of the Zurich University of the Arts (our new sponsor for the server housing and the bandwidth)

June

• The first phonograph cylinder is catologuized in the MediaWiki: U.S. Everlasting Records no. 1047

July

• We have digitized the first opera complete recording in twentyeight parts: Columbia D 14530-14543 (Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), a recording of 1929)
• Eric Brändli (collection) has donated us two hundred twenty four gramophone records with mainly classical music

August

• Relocation of the collection donated by Martin Osterwalder with thirty-five thousand gramophone records (see: pictures of the relocation)

September

• We have participated at the Calling for Projects by Wikimedia CH ( file of our request)
• Sending of the foundation certificate and the statutes of the Swiss Foundation Public Domain for the preliminary examination to the commercial register of the canton of Zurich as well as the Federal Founding Authority (ESA)
• As the completion of the project funding to the recognition of what has been done so far and to further support, Wikimedia Deutschland donated us the ELP laser turntable, type LT-2XA

November

• Participation at the 14th Linux Day in Dornbirn

December

• Public certification of the Swiss Foundation Public Domain ( file of the statutes)
• We received the officially certified commercial register extract ( file of the commercial register extract)