RADD, PROUD, and PRAVDA made their conference debuts in November at the Digital Libraries Forum 2016 and the Association of Moving Image Archivists Annual Symposium 2016. Slides with notes from the DLF version of the presentation: We are grateful to both conferences for their interest, to our co-presenters, and to Read more…
FireWire is a near-obsolete connection and data-transfer standard. Unfortunately, it is also the best way to capture digital video data from MiniDV camcorders, and many perfectly adequate audio interfaces also rely on it. Normally we would hope for adapters to an up-to-date connection standard like USB, but in FireWire’s case Read more…
We are tremendously excited to announce that the Institute for Museum and Library Services has awarded RADD a Sparks! Ignition grant to build and document two kits, one for audiovisual digitization (“PRAVDA,” for “Portably Reformat A/V to Digital from Analog”), one for digital-data rescue (“PROUD,” for “Portable Recovery of Unique Read more…
RADD couldn’t exist without the generosity of the campus and Madison communities. Another example of this generosity was just added into the technology array. RADD uses the Device Side Data controller card to be able to read 5.25-inch floppy disks. Device Side Data used to sell an enclosure for the Read more…
RADD coordinator Dorothea Salo has been nominated for a 2016 Community/Capacity Award from the Digital Library Federation for her work with RADD. This is a tremendous honor, and Dorothea and RADD are in phenomenal company! Many thanks to the anonymous nominator(s), and congratulations to fellow nominees. RADD has been a Read more…
We are pleased and proud to announce that the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment has chosen to fund RADD to do proof-of-concept audiovisual digitization work this summer. RADD will digitize unique audiovisual materials on a variety of physical carriers from: the Cedarburg Public Library, Cedarburg WI the Read more…
RADD will be in the mix at the inaugural Madison Mini Maker Faire, on Saturday May 14th from 10am to 5pm at the Monona Terrace Convention Center. We currently (subject to change!) plan to be able to handle onsite: 3.5″ and 5.25″ floppy disks Iomega Zip disks VHS and mini-DV Read more…
RADD made 2015’s Madison Magazine “M-List”, which this year focuses on social innovation. We’re tremendously honored and excited! (One tiny correction: RADD hasn’t been around “for years,” though we certainly hope it will be. We’ve been around for six or eight months. The mission to share and preserve cultural information—that Read more…
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…