Wikimedia Digitization User Group/Reports/2020/February/CC0

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Report of the Month

• Period of the Report: February 1 - 29

Facts

Collection

• 30'000 78 rpm gramophone records
• 25'000 LP records
• 2'000 Phonograph cylinders

People involved

• 1 Musicologist
• 1 Computer programmer (Coder)

Infrastructure

• Climated archive room in Hinwil ZH (Archive and digitization)
• Climated archive room in Wetzikon ZH (Archive)
• ELP Laser turntable LT-2XA without built-in preamp
• Numark TTX turntable
• two RME Fireface 800 (one has a defective balanced input, so we can connect only one turntable)
• Tracer Technologies CTP-1000 (flat phono preamp)
• Graham Slee Era Gold V with PSU1 (RIAA equalizer phono preamp)
• Graham Slee Relevation M (RIAA equalizer phono preamp, switchable for 78 rpm records)
• Tapco S5 (Pair) + S10 Sub
• Mackie Big Knob Passive
• Keith Monks Gemini MK III Dual RCM (record cleaning machine)
• Copy stand with Nikon D610
• Balanced high quality audiocables with high quality connectors
• 3 work stations

Financing

• Annual GLAM budget of Wikimedia CH and other donors

Figures

Report

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Timeline

• 4 February: The Public Domain Project sent us a self-programmed "Code 128 barcode software" for our inventory
• 5 February (morning): The Public Domain Project returned us the RME Fireface 800 with the defective balanced analog input 7+8
• 5 February (evening): We bought a 2nd hand RME Fireface 800 for CHF 450
• 6 February: Wikimedia CH informed us that we will get more budget backdated to January (CHF 5000 annualy GLAM budget)