________________________________________________________________________________ Open Radio Archive / Radio Internationale Stadt I like to intoduce you to my culture project "Radio Internationale Stadt". This is an audio archive project in the Internet, which is reachable under the WEB-address http://orang.orang.org/. In 1993 the Internationale Stadt Berlin was foundet. This was an internet culture project with community character. In the meantime the Internationale Stadt project seized and just some projects of it are findable on the net (www.icf.de). But one of the project of Internationale Stadt Berlin survived the last years of internet commercial hypes, the Radio Internationale Stadt. Radio Internationale Stadt, ORANG.ORANG.ORG A colaborative server to conserve and archive audio data. The system is running into the fifth year and the first audio piece, which was contributed on Thuesday, May the 30th in 1996 at 23:23, is still available til now. In 1998, Radio Internationale Stadt becomes the first server in the network system Open Radio Archive Network Group, (short: ORANG) a distributed archive for audio data with servers in Berlin, London and Riga. All audio data are decentralized on the different systems, but the describing (text-) database entries are distributed between the different nodes - the database entries are the same on each node. This enables visitors on each involved node to access all the audio data from all attached servers of the network. In 1999 the model of Radio Internationale Stadt / ORANG served as a basis for the build up of the project "Open Video Archive", short OVA (http://ova.zkm.de/), which is, with collaboration of the Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medien (ZKM - http://www.zkm.de ) in Karlsruhe, up & running. Beside this, Radio Internationale Stadt was awarded with an honnory mentioning of the Ars Electronica Jury. MoreoverRadio Internationale Stadt was involved in many little and big project, for example the Hybrid Workspace at documenta X, Berlin Atonal 1999, the net art projects Xchange and ConvexTV. Until today the Radio Internationale Stadt reached a respectable importance in the values of On-Demand-Archive Systems in cultural context and gives a good example of a functioning community project in the internet. The current statistics show this with a total content of about 700 hours (ca. 30 days) On-Demand audio content of the 175 contributors. This content was served 20 times, this means a total reception from over 400000 users of about 600 days - an listen average of each listener of more then 2 minutes. The archived material is a collection of the areas of contemporary music with emphasis of electronic music, new music, radio plays, speeches and archived live events. The streaming technologies used are the common standard RealAudio and MP3. Most pieces are contributed by the producers themselves to the archive - in every case the right owner is involved into the whole process, therefore the legal situation is ruled by the right holder. These days, the common streaming technologies, fitting and optimized to small bandwith in the internet, give you a quality of the original material wich is just able to give you a pre- listen quality and can help the artist/right owner as a promotion utility. For further details and information get in contact with me. You can reach me E-Mail: thomax@orang.org With kind regardes, Thomax Kaulmann ________________________________________________________________________________ no copyright 2000 rolux.org - no commercial use without permission. is a moderated mailing list for the advancement of minor criticism. more information: mail to: majordomo@rolux.org, subject line: , message body: info. further questions: mail to: rolux-owner@rolux.org. archive: http://www.rolux.org