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Unlocking the potential of a World Leading Sound archive - 2 years later

Title (author1): 
Ms
First names (author1): 
Nicole
Surname (author 1): 
Brossollet
Institution: 
BnF
Country: 
FRANCE
Other authors: 
Pascal Cordereix
Presentation type: 
spoken paper
Date: 
30 Sept Wednesday
Start time: 
1 430
Venue: 
Grand Auditorium
Abstract: 

2 years ago in Vilnius, the BnF together with Memnon presented its very ambitious project : digitising the Legal Deposit from 1949 to 1962.
All of the 45 000 Vinyls from its collection have been digitised in just one year time. To date (feb 2015) 35 000 albums are accessible from more than 100 countries, on more than 200 music platforms (including itunes, deezer, Qobuz…),
How did the BnF, its subsidiary BnF-Partenariats and its partners (Believe Digital and Memnon have dealt with such an important project ?
What are the mains issues, lessons learnt, perspectives ?