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As an audio and audio-visual archive with numerous collections of unique research recordings from all across the world, covering a time-span of 125 years, the Phonogrammarchiv offers various services: Besides providing access to its rich data and metadata resources (online, remote & onsite), it advises scholars on audio-visual research methodology in the social sciences & humanities and on technologies of audio and audio-visual documentation, including the loan of recording equipment. In addition, it widely shares its broad expertise on topics such as restoration, digitisation, format obsolescence, cataloguing, metadata, long-term preservation and storage as well as legal and ethical issues.