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Phonogrammarchiv

DATA ABOUT RESPONDENT

Full name
Clemens Gütl
Name of your institution
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Institutions’s country
Austria
Institution’s address
Liebiggasse 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria
Are you responsible on behalf of the institution
Yes
Your position in the institution
  • Research Infrastructures Operator (scientific/technical)
Your telephone number
+43-1-4277-29601
Your email address
pha@oeaw.ac.at
Institution's website address
http://www.phonogrammarchiv.at

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE OR IMPORTANT RESEARCH EQUIPMENT

Research infrastrcture website
http://www.pha.oeaw.ac.at/home_e.htm
Organisation / institution type of RI
  • National scientific organisation/institution

Main scientificdomain: Humanities

Category: Unique research archives

Other scientific and technological domains served by RI
  • Information and Communication Technologies, Mathematics
RI type
  • Single-sited
Short description

ABOUT

The Phonogrammarchiv, an institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, is the oldest sound archive in the world. Austria's audiovisual research archive was established in 1899. Since September 2001 the activities of the Phonogrammarchiv also include the archiving and preservation of videographic research documents. Activities of the Phonogrammarchiv are: preserving, producing, collecting, accessioning and processing as well as making available research sound and video recordings by predominantly Austrian scholars and institutions, without disciplinary or regional restrictions.

The Phonogrammarchiv also supports scientific field research by technical and methodological advice and the loan of adequate recording equipment. Over the past years the Phonogrammarchiv has specifically engaged in low cost models of digital audio archiving, the implementation of digitizing projects and the development of uncomprising linear video file archiving. European engagement concentrates on Eastern Europe (otherwise the engagement of the Phonogrammarchiv is international).

COOPERATION

Phonogrammarchiv is opened for international cooperation on different levels. Through bilateral and multilateral projects, joint participation in EU programmes like Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries (DELOS) or Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe (TAPE). Target groups for the cooperation are academies of sciences, universities, (digital) libraries and archives and qualified researchers. Typical users coming abroad to Phonogrammarchive are MA and PhD students and researchers from different disciplines using equipment for their field research; trainees from countries like Romania, Albania, Philippines and China.

Phonogrammarchive have already experience in cooperation with Western Balkan countries. Till today they cooperated with Albania, Croatia, Kosovo (under UNSCR 1244/199) and the FYR of Macedonia. The most significant cooperation among these was cooperation with Albania where digitisation of the Audio Archive of the Institute for Folk Culture, Tirana, Albania, was financed by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and Phonogrammarchive took an active part in this project. Approximately 250 users are granted to work on the infrastructure annually.

OPERATION AND UPGRADE OF RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AND OR IMPORTANT RESEARCH EQUIPMENT

Years in operation
  • More than 25 years

STAFF, INTERNAL USERS AND EXTERNAL USERS

Approximately number of permanent scientific/engineering staff operating the RI
  • 1 – 10
Average number of individual external users per year
  • 201 – 500
External users: average number of trainees/students per year
  • 201 – 500
External users, estimated number of individual virtual users
  • 11 – 100
External users: estimated percentage of individual users from other countries than the country where the RI is hosted
  • 11% - 25%
External users: estimated percentage of individual users from private sector or industry or organisations serving industry
  • 1 % – 10%

FINANCE

Total cumulative investment for initial construction/setting up of this RI
  • 50M EUR and more
Yearly operational costs
  • 500.000 – 2M EUR
Main sources of funding for setting up RI or important equipment
Main sources of funding for operational costs

SCIENTIFIC IMPACT

Please explain why you consider your research infrastructure or facility with research equipment significant for your scientific community or users
The Phonogrammarchiv is the Austrian audiovisual research archive. It systematically supports the production of phonographic and videographic documents, collects such documents mainly produced by Austrian researchers, accessions these documents and holds it available for future research. The archive is specializing on all issues related to audiovisual presevation and cooperates, partly in a coordinating role, with specific international working groups. Over the past years the Phonogrammarchiv has specifically engaged in low cost models of digital audio archiving, the implementation of digitizing projects and the development of uncomprising linear video file archiving. European engagement concentrates on Eastern Europe (otherwise the engagement of the Phonogrammarchiv is international).

RESEARCH SERVICES PROVIDED TO USERS AND RESEARCHERS

Research services provided to users and researchers
FACILITIES AND SERVICES FOR RESEARCHERS Phonogrammarchive houses audiovisual archive with audio and video contents. Technical facilities at the phonogrammarchive consists from three transfer studios listening-stations for users, recording studio, re-recording laboratory, signal-processing workstation, equipment service laboratory copying plants field research equipment and two video archiving studios stations for video viewing.

Entry created by Elke Dall on February 17, 2010
Modified on October 14, 2013