You can find cataloguing guidelines on the following websites :

• International Association of Sound & Audiovisual Archives: Cataloguing Rules (1999)
• International Council On Archives: ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description (2000)
• Association for Recorded Sound Collections: ARSC Guide to Audio Preservation (Chapter 5 on ‘Description of Audio Recordings’) (2015)
• Archives and Records Association: ARA Guide to Standards (including metadata and indexing descriptors)

Finally, here are some tools to help you with the transcription of your sound collection :

• Oral History Society: Software for oral history
• Transcription services: Living Memory Association (Edinburgh)

 

Introduction to Audio Cataloguing 

The following slides are from a webinar delivered in August 2021 by Rob Smith and Alistair Bell (National Library of Scotland)

 

Is there something we’ve missed? Please let us know on scotlandssounds@nls.uk – we’re keen to keep updating this list.