In the field ofmultimedia, very little attention is given to the activities involved in the preservation of audio documents. At the same\r\ntime, more and more archives storing audio and video documents face the problem of obsolescing and degrading media, which\r\ncould largely benefit from the instruments and the methodologies of research in multimedia. This paper presents the methodology\r\nand the results of the Italian project REVIVAL, aimed at the development of a hardware/software platform to support the active\r\npreservation of the audio collection of the Fondazione Arena di Verona, one of the finest in Europe for the operatic genre, with a\r\nspecial attention on protocols and tools for quality control. On the scientific side, the most significant objectives achieved by the\r\nproject are (i) the setup of a working environment inside the archive, (ii) the knowledge transfer to the archival personnel, (iii) the\r\nrealization of chemical analyses on magnetic tapes in collaboration with experts in the fields of materials science and chemistry,\r\nand (iv) the development of original open-source software tools. On the cultural side, the recovery, the safeguard, and the access\r\nto unique copies of unpublished live recordings of artists the calibre of Domingo and Pavarotti are of great musicological and\r\neconomical value.
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