Partly me, partly a string of extremely negative interactions with community users. I will certainly turn it into a case study for LIS 668 “Digital Curation and Collections” on how not to run a community resource. The me part: Like everyone, I’ve been living through a global pandemic, a race Read more…
At present I cannot maintain RADD or serve its clients adequately due to press of other work. Until that changes, neither RADD workstation will be available for campus or community use, nor will the service accept service work. I’m very sorry to do this, but in all honesty, the pandemic Read more…
Effective immediately, the RADD service is on indefinite hiatus. This means: no additional digitization or data-rescue projects will be accepted (though in-house ones will be completed) no support or training is available for RADD equipment the main RADD space in the iSchool Library is not available for public or campus Read more…
Long time no blog! I apologize; the years of the PROUD and PRAVDA IMLS grants were very busy. I updated the kit-build documentation in light of various technical developments. Chief among them: it is now possible to build a kit capable of archival-quality video, thanks to Blackmagic Design’s Intensity Shuttle. Read more…
RADD will be out of service for the next two weeks while we swap out the tables it sits on. We will try to keep this hiatus as brief as possible.
We are pleased to announce that a full draft set of documentation for PROUD and PRAVDA is now available, on our YouTube channel and in PDF: PROUD Documentation PRAVDA Documentation We will be performing usability tests on kits plus documentation this summer, and revising the documentation in late summer and Read more…
RADD’s first pieces of equipment were two Iomega Zip drives that were in a pile in the hall waiting for the trash collectors to arrive. At the time, I wasn’t even planning to build RADD; I just knew that plenty of people still had Zip disks, and I didn’t want Read more…
At the request of an interested librarian, we are posting electronic copies of the conference posters we are currently using to introduce RADD, PROUD, and PRAVDA: RADD poster (note: equipment list somewhat outdated) PROUD and PRAVDA poster
Most digital data-rescue kits will want a 5.25″ floppy drive. The main difficulty with these is that extant ones are practically all designed to be installed inside a computer case. To ship one safely, it makes sense to find an enclosure for it. As best we know, no enclosure is Read more…
Equipment included in the PROUD digital-data rescue kit: HP EliteBook 8460p laptop computer with power cable, running Windows 7 Professional Forensic ComboDock with all associated cables 3.5″ USB floppy drive 5.25″ floppy drive (TEAC FD55-GFR) in an enclosure, powered by this cable FC5025 USB floppy controller card, attached to 5.25″ Read more…