http://www.pha.oeaw.ac.at/
This is the home page of the Phonogrammarchiv, or Research Sound Archive, of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the self-proclaimed oldest sound archive in the world. Dedicated to the research and preservation of sound recordings since 1899, the archive now has a wing devoted to video recording. The site gives a detailed description of its collection and storage procedures, as well as its external projects. A brief history of recording technologies is incorporated into a catalogue of the archive's resources and those of its affiliated library. An outside link to Österreichische Mediathek, the affiliated audiovisual archive of the Technical Museum of Vienna, offers sound files of the voices of famous historical figures, such as Emperor Franz Joseph I ; Arthur Schnitzler ; and Josef Weinheber. Essays (or descriptions thereof), some with sound documents, are posted from staff research in the fields of Ethnomusicology ; Ethnolinguistics and Dialectology ; Cultural Anthropoly and Folklore ; musical automata ; Zoology ; Medicine and Natural Sciences ; environmental sounds and noises ; early collections ; language and music samples ; and mechanical musical instruments. Projects, downloadable publications and links are all clearly and comprehensively posted -- as are several indexes of archive holdings, and a good selection of sound samples. Together, these resources make the site valuable for musicologists, anthropologists and historians of Austria, Central Europe, and World History. The site has a news page and its own search engine.
Available in English and German.
| Source | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| Difficulty | Easy |
| Compatibility | N/A |
| Rating | 0 |
| Language | en |