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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Steve Gontarek <Steve.Gontarek@sams.ac.uk><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 03 June 2016 08:56<br>
<b>To:</b> Gaffney, Sean P.; medin_standards@mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Lowry, Roy K.<br>
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<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></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Gaffney, Sean P. [mailto:sgaf@bodc.ac.uk]
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<b>Sent:</b> 03 June 2016 08:52<br>
<b>To:</b> Steve Gontarek <Steve.Gontarek@sams.ac.uk>; medin_standards@mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Lowry, Roy K. <rkl@bodc.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: definition of audio files</span></p>
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Hi Steve, </p>
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Roy has proposed the following, which I think captures our requirements very nicely…</p>
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Digital Audio: </p>
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Recordings of sound converted to an electrical signal the properties of which are determined as numbers at regular intervals and stored.</p>
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Analogue Audio:</p>
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Recordings of sound converted to an electrical signal which is stored continuously using a medium such as magnetic tape or vinyl.</p>
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Sean<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"></span></p>
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<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"> Steve Gontarek [<a href="mailto:Steve.Gontarek@sams.ac.uk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">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" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">
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></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Hi Sean,</span></p>
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<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></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
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medin_standards-bounces@mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:medin_standards-bounces@mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">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>
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medin_standards@mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Lowry, Roy K. <<a href="mailto:rkl@bodc.ac.uk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">rkl@bodc.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Medin_standards] definition of audio files</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For audio, I propose as a first draft of the definition:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“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
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I would be grateful for any comments relating to this definition.</span></p>
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