DIGITISATION COMPETENCE CENTRE 
FORM FOR NOMINATION

This is the form for the nomination of a competence centre in digitisation.
Please, send a form for each different competence centre.
Each competence centre can be “nominated” for more than one area.

Send the form/forms to the attention of Maria Teresa Natale by e-mail to minerva2@beniculturali.it orf by fax to +390667232499.

The form will be submitted to the National representative for approval.

English must be used.

NAME AND ACRONYM OF THE COMPETENCE CENTRE:

Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences (“Vienna Phonogrammarchiv”)
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URL: http://www.pha.oeaw.ac.at/
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AREAS for nominations of the 'competence centre' 

•	Consulting, collection management, metadata ontology
•	Digitisation of art objects
•	Digitisation of books
•	Digitisation of film
•	Digitisation of manuscripts
•	Digitisation of museum collections
•	Digitisation of newspapers
•	Digitisation of photographic objects
•	Digitisation of public archives
•	Digitisation of sound
•	Digitisation of TV and radio
•	Multimedia
•	3D-environment
•	Virtual exhibitions
•	Other: Digitisation of video research documents 

RESPONSIBLE BODY AND/OR ANY SPECIFIC 
CO-ORDINATING BODY/MECHANISM/INSTITUTION

Name of the institution: Phonogrammarchiv der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 

English name of the institution:  Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Acronym of the institution: Vienna Phonogrammarchiv

Mailing address: 1010 Vienna, Liebiggasse 5 

Country: Austria

Tel.: +43 1 4277 29601

Fax: +43 1 4277 9296

e-mail: pha@oeaw.ac.at

URL: http://www.pha.oeaw.ac.at/

Type of institution:  National		 Governmental		 Regional
            X Other   Specify academic

Sector: X Archive   Library  Museum  Foundation  
             Other   Specify ........................................................................

Legal status:  Public   Private  X  No profit

Description of the institution (max 200 characters):

The Phonogrammarchiv is the Austrian Audiovisual Research Archive founded in 1899 as a sound archive, the world’s first of its kind. Its competence has been expanded in 2001 to include video research documents.   

CONTACT PERSON OF THE COMPETENCE CENTRE

Name: Dietrich Surname: Schüller

Gender:   X M		 F

Title: Dr.phil.

Institution: Phonogrammarchiv
Mailing address: 1010 Vienna, Liebiggasse 5

Country: Austria

Tel.: +43 1 4277 29601

Fax: +43 1 4277 9296

e-mail: dietrich.schueller@oeaw.ac.at

Contact languages: German, English

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE COMPETENCE CENTRE DOES

The main features for what you consider the institution a 'competence centre', with respect to the selected areas ((max 200 characters for each area):

The Phonogrammarchiv is specialising in linear video file archiving, i.e. the uncompressed transfer of original video research documents from original tapes to digital, storing contents on computer tapes.

I agree this information may be published on Minerva Knowledge Base: http://www.minervaeurope.org

X Yes  No

Signature: _____________________

Name: Dr. Dietrich Schüller

e-mail: dietrich.schueller@oeaw.ac.at