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…
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…
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posters we are currently using to introduce RADD, PROUD, and PRAVDA: RADD poster (note: equipment list somewhat outdated) PROUD and PRAVDA poster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…
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…
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…
Last Wednesday, RADD helped several Madison community members digitize and recover content from audio cassette tapes, VHS tapes, and floppy disks, to name a few. Home movies, journal articles, and datasets were recovered and migrated to more accessible digital formats. Dorothea Salo and SLIS Laboratory Library staff were available to Read more…
Event: Save Our Stuff: Preserve Memories at the Library Time: Wednesday, April 27 at 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM in CDT Locations: SLIS Library – 4191 Helen C. White Hall, 600 N. Park St., Madison WI Pinney Library – 204 Cottage Grove Road., Madison, WI RADD is pleased to announce Read more…