Alfresco Brings the New York Philharmonic’s Digital History to Life

Alfresco Brings the New York Philharmonic’s Digital History to Life. Press release. Business Wire. July 29, 2015.
     The New York Philharmonic is using the Alfresco enterprise content management system for the Leon Levy Digital Archives, which will contain more than 3 million pages of correspondence, operation files, marked scores, and other materials. The project consists of two phases:

1. Document restoration. All the Philharmonic’s paper-based content will be imaged and ingested into the system. 
2. Digitize nearly 10,000 hours of Philharmonic audio and video files, storing the audio and rights information, and making them available in an online archive.

The Archives is doing this to make material broadly and freely available and to have a copy for preservation.  The Philharmonic plans to develop partnerships with academic institutions and music conservatories to create curriculum that will focus on material available in the Digital Archives, which will hold about 5 TB of data by close of the current phase.

Digital Preservation Matters.