Magnetic Tape Alert Project supported by IFAP

UNESCO’s Information for All Programme (IFAP) Working Group on Information Preservation launches an initiative to alert on the risk of losing access to audiovisual documents. Today’s knowledge of the linguistic and cultural diversity of humanity is widely based on magnetic tape recordings produced over the past 60 years. Magnetic audio and video tape formats are now obsolete, replay equipment in working condition is disappearing rapidly and the supply and service of spare parts is fading. As a result, the routine transfer of magnetic tape recordings is likely to cease around…

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