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 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 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 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 Read more…
RADD’s first major project serves the Washington County Historical Society in West Bend, Wisconsin. The prize of the collection, in my opinion, is this recording of the West Bend High School Concert Band: Much of the rest comes from the Read more…
We were thrilled to have RADD chronicled as part of Isthmus‘s “Garbage Issue.” A lot of RADD’s parts and pieces are indeed donations or reclamations of equipment that would otherwise have ended up in a dumpster, or worse, as toxic Read more…