Folkmedia: A Modern Approach On Preservation Of Romanian Folklore Archive

The present paper presents the results of a national project - Folkmedia - focused on a new form of a modern archive according to a strict risk assessment plan, in order to assure the collection's viability and increase its visibility. Significant part of the archive recordings has been successfully assessed and the digitization process is running at full speed. The digitized collection are subjected to decontamination using anoxia before their relocation to the dedicated storage facility, following a one-way route. Two multifaceted databases have been elaborated in order to serve the needs of the archive researchers and also to grant access via the internet to various categories of users. The data bases contain, besides the basic archive information, complex documentation obtained using advanced photonic techniques.