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<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Digital Audio: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Recordings of sound converted to an electrical signal the properties of which are sampled at regular intervals and stored.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Analogue Audio:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Recordings of sound converted to an electrical signal which is stored continuously using a medium such as magnetic tape or vinyl.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#00B0F0">Dr Sean Gaffney</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Lowry, Roy K.
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<b>Sent:</b> 03 June 2016 09:40<br>
<b>To:</b> Steve Gontarek; Gaffney, Sean P.; medin_standards@mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: definition of audio files<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Works for me. Cheers, Roy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> Steve Gontarek <<a href="mailto:Steve.Gontarek@sams.ac.uk">Steve.Gontarek@sams.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 03 June 2016 08:56<br>
<b>To:</b> Gaffney, Sean P.; <a href="mailto:medin_standards@mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk">
medin_standards@mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Lowry, Roy K.<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: definition of audio files</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Yeah, I’d go for that , but for one small tweak - would suggest that instead of saying “determined as numbers” you use ‘sampled at regular intervals
and stored’ – that after all is the essence of digitisation – sampling.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Steve</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> Gaffney, Sean P. [<a href="mailto:sgaf@bodc.ac.uk">mailto:sgaf@bodc.ac.uk</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> 03 June 2016 08:52<br>
<b>To:</b> Steve Gontarek <<a href="mailto:Steve.Gontarek@sams.ac.uk">Steve.Gontarek@sams.ac.uk</a>>;
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<b>Cc:</b> Lowry, Roy K. <<a href="mailto:rkl@bodc.ac.uk">rkl@bodc.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: definition of audio files</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Hi Steve, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Roy has proposed the following, which I think captures our requirements very nicely…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Digital Audio: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Recordings of sound converted to an electrical signal the properties of which are determined as numbers at regular intervals and stored.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Analogue Audio:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Recordings of sound converted to an electrical signal which is stored continuously using a medium such as magnetic tape or vinyl.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Sean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> Steve Gontarek [<a href="mailto:Steve.Gontarek@sams.ac.uk">mailto:Steve.Gontarek@sams.ac.uk</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> 03 June 2016 07:46<br>
<b>To:</b> Gaffney, Sean P.; <a href="mailto:medin_standards@mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk">
medin_standards@mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Lowry, Roy K.<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: definition of audio files</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Sean,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I don’t know if I would restrict the definition to ‘fluids’. What about something a bit more simple like “an electronic recording\representation of
sound”. And I agree with Roy, I think you probably what to differentiate between analogue and digital.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Steve</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:medin_standards-bounces@mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk">medin_standards-bounces@mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:medin_standards-bounces@mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk">mailto:medin_standards-bounces@mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Gaffney, Sean P.<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 01 June 2016 11:46<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:medin_standards@mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk">medin_standards@mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Lowry, Roy K. <<a href="mailto:rkl@bodc.ac.uk">rkl@bodc.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Medin_standards] definition of audio files</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Dear MEDIN Standards Working Group,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I have an action to include the term ‘Audio’ as one of the data format types that MEDIN has in its vocabulary, M01. See the hyperlink below for details
of current entries.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/codes_and_formats/vocabulary_search/M01/">https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/codes_and_formats/vocabulary_search/M01/</a>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">For audio, I propose as a first draft of the definition:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">“Audio: Recordings, in either digital or analog form, of vibrations which cause a periodic disturbance in the pressure or density of a fluid or the elastic
strain of an object and travel as longitudinal waves”</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I would be grateful for any comments relating to this definition.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Regards</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Sean Gaffney</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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(9206). SAMS has two actively trading wholly owned subsidiary companies: SAMS Research Services Ltd (SC224404) and SAMS Ltd (SC306912). All Companies in the group are registered in Scotland and share a registered office at Scottish Marine Institute, Oban Argyll
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