RADD currently sits in an open section of the SLIS Laboratory Library. This has obvious advantages for student use and experimentation, but it also raises the spectre of damage and theft. In fact, RADD has had materials stolen. In fall 2014 someone stole a Canon PowerShot A2400 digital camera from Read more…
How did SLIS choose which analog material RADD can digitize, and which digital media it can capture data from? The answer is part planning, part serendipity. The group of Digital Curation students who first made concrete plans for RADD did not do so until they had conducted a sweep of Read more…
RADD can currently digitize audio from audio cassettes, microcassettes, and vinyl records (33 and 45 rpm; if we run into 78s we’ll have to buy more equipment). We have a reel-to-reel player awaiting cleaning and overhaul also. The playback equipment is nothing special, though microcassette recorders are starting to be Read more…
RADD is a complicated system. It teems with cables, cords, dongles, boxes, and other miscellanea. After a point, putting a hand on the correct cable becomes all but impossible without labeling. We would not have expected this, but an ordinary label maker has turned out to be one of RADD’s Read more…