Digital Audio Preservation

Digital Audio Best Practice
http://www.bcr.org/cdp/best/digital-audio-bp.pdf

UCLA Oral History Interview project has been following this practice to preserve our original interview audio files. The master audio files are in WAV format, it is also following the Red Book audio CD standard: 44.1hz, 16 bit, 2 channels stereo files: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_(audio_CD_standard)

Yellow book and Red book standard:

Yellow Book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Book_(CD-ROM_standards)
The Yellow Book itself is not freely available. However, its content corresponds to the ISO/IEC 10149 and ECMA 130 standards; the latter can be downloaded at
Standard ECMA-130: Data Interchange on Read-only 120 mm Optical Data Disks (CD-ROM)

Red book:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_(audio_CD_standard)Red Book is the standard for audio CDs (Compact Disc Digital Audio system, or CDDA). It is named after one of a set of color-bound books that contain the technical specifications for all CD and CD-ROM formats.
The first edition of the Red Book was released in June 1980 by Philips and Sony; it was adopted by the Digital Audio Disc Committee and ratified as IEC 908. The standard is not freely available and must be licensed from Philips. At the time of writing, the cost as per the relevant Philips order form (document no. 28/10/04-3122 783 0027 2) is US$5000. As of 2006, the IEC 908 document is also available as a PDF download for $210

ECMA Standard Internet Speed:
http://www.ecma-international.org/ , Standard ECMA-130 is for data intervhange on read-only 120mm optical data disks.

Digital Image Preservation

For preservation of images (Photo, films, maps, artwork) , follow
BCR’s CDP Digital Imaging Best Practices Version 2.0 (June 2008)
http://www.bcr.org/cdp/best/digital-imaging-bp.pdf