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…
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.
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posters we are currently using to introduce RADD, PROUD, and PRAVDA: RADD poster (note: equipment list somewhat outdated) PROUD and PRAVDA poster
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 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…