Pekka Salosaari

Pekka Salosaari has been working for the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle Archives for more than twenty years and is currently Audio Collections Manager. Salosaari studied ethnomusicology, information science and mass communication at the University of Tampere. His thesis ‘MUSIR: A Retrieval Model for Music’ presented n-gram representations for music retrieval and was accepted by the Department of Information Studies. At international conferences he has delivered talks on audio digitisation, obsolete audio formats, archiving and Finnish radio history.