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, 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…
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 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…
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…
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 waste shipped overseas. Isthmus reporter Allison Geyer did a lovely Read more…