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Hello.
A big part of my field recording, is a sort of historical preservation of the soundscape. How did X location sound in Y time.
I expect these to mostly be used for curiosity, someone wanting to hear how another place sounds like, or some kid in the future wanting to know how their place sounded like a while back. When the skyscraper was infact a park, or when the streets didn't have orthogonal saphire crystals bots running around all over place (I might be exaggerating).

This is close to research, an important role of Freesound.

Just like film makers may prefer certain forms of recordings over others MS/XY over ORTF / AB and other. I presume researchers do too. Id expect a MS (adjustable Stereo) or ambisonic to be preferable. But I can also imagine stereo not being important. I presume audio quality/natural sound.

I guess an important question would be what are the different fields of research? What do they want out of sound recordings?

Cheers!

Similar topic : Strategic recording times for soundscape archiving : https://freesound.org/forum/production-techniques-music-gear-tips-and-tricks/44623/

I guess, recording technique is far from being the weakest link in the chain and one should focus on the artistic side.

Because recording more things more often will surly bring more material.
Then maybe more recordings don't matter if they're not properly tagged / described.
So third important question would be, what is the weakest link in the chain?
Amount of recordings, Spread of recordings, Frequency of same location, Tags, Extra infos in descriptions (Hardware, weather, timestamped tagging), audio quality, other?

Cheers

See: https://freesound.org/forum/production-techniques-music-gear-tips-and-tricks/44623/?page=1#post104088