Technical reports and methods from the archive.
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This report establishes the definitive standard standard for episode title formatting across the entire radio catalog and documents the repository-wide refactoring of 3,679 episode titles across 926 series JSON files in…
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This report establishes the permanent enforcement of standard pure titles across the entire 6,127 series collection in radioindex.org-meta and documents the catalog-wide cleanup of 10,000 episode titles across 593 series files.
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A considerable body of American radio broadcasting survives as sound recordings, and the surviving material circulates among private collectors as digital audio files. A significant proportion of the surviving material carries no broadcast…
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Many old American radio recordings survive today. Collectors trade them as sound files. But a large number of these recordings carry no date. The file name is often the only information about a recording. File names do not last. People…