Technical Reports

Final Reports

• PRA Preservation & Access Project Final Report, Phase 4 to National Endowment for the Arts, April 30, 2008.
• Karen Coyle, PRA Preservation & Access Project Phase 2 Public Access Catalog Report, April 30, 2008.
• Ginna Allison, PRA Preservation & Access Project Web Site and Folio Report, April 30, 2008.
• PRA Preservation & Access Project Final Report, Phase 1 to National Endowment for the Arts, June, 2004. Includes a list of advisor / consultants who helped select programs for priority preservation, and a list of tapes saved. [See Restored Audio for more information, and tapes saved in Phase Two.]

• PRA Preservation & Access Project Final Report, Phase 1, to GRAMMY Foundation®,  August, 2004
• PRA Preservation & Access Project Final Report, Phase 2, to National Endowment for the Arts, September, 2005
• PRA Preservation & Access Project Final Report, Phase 2, to GRAMMY Foundation®, December, 2005
• PRA Preservation & Access Project Final Report, Phase 3, to National Endowment for the Arts, July, 2006
• PRA Preservation & Access Project Summary Inventory of Pacifica Radio Archives Collection, for Ford Foundation, December 2006

Board Reports

• Brian DeShazor (Pacifica Radio Archives director)—Report to the Pacifica National Board. January 12, 2007

Best Practices

• David Seubert—Draft, Best Practices for Reel-to-Reel Tape Transfer. April, 2006
• Ginna Allison—Best Practices for Scanning and Digitizing Folios. April, 2006
• George Blood (SafeSound Archives)—Digitization Standards and Practices for Preservation

Assessments

• David Seubert and Mona Jimenez—Assessment of Collection. September, 2003
• Karen Coyle—Analysis of Pacifica Radio Archives Catalog Database. September, 2005
• Claude Marks (Freedom Archives)—Consultant Assessment: Pacifica Radio Archives. September, 2004

The Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation & Access Project is funded (in part) by awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, grants from the GRAMMY Foundation®, The Ford Foundation, The Pacifica Foundation, supporters of the Pacifica Radio Archives, members of the Adopt-a-Tape program, and listeners to Pacifica Radio Stations, KPFA, KPFK, KPFT, WBAI, WPFW.

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