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Oral History Society Training

Digitisation and Digital Editing: An Introduction for Oral Historians



This one-day course, organised jointly by the British Library Sound Archive and the Oral History Society, will explore how to use an ordinary personal computer to digitise, preserve and edit oral history recordings for wider access, such as CD publication, web use and sitespecific playback. It will be led by Rob Perks (the BL's Curator of Oral History) and Richard Ranft (Head of Technical Services, BL Sound Archive).

Please note that the course is aimed at those who have already gathered or archived oral history recordings, and participants will be encouraged to bring along samples of their work for the practical sessions. It is not suitable for newcomers to oral history, who should attend the introductory course.

Due to high demand and in order to ensure that each course has attendees with a variety of interests and backgrounds, only one person from any one institution may attend each course. Places are limited to eight per course.


Course Dates

10th September 2008 - FULLY BOOKED
IT Training Room, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB


Programme

10.00-10.15 Welcome and introductions

10.15-11.00 What does ‘digital’ mean? Bits, bytes and file types

11.00-11.15 Coffee

11.15-11.45 Digitisation: the equipment and software you need

11.45-12.30 Practical session: digitising sample audio

12.30-13.00 Digital archiving/transfer: security back-up, versioning for web access and gallery use

13.00-14.00 Lunch (not provided)

14.00-14.30 Digital editing: software options, pros and cons

14.30-15.00 Ethics and practice of oral history editing

15.00-15.15 Tea

15.15-16.00 Practical session: digitally editing sample audio

16.00-16.30 Advanced editing techniques

16.30-17.00 Questions

17.00 Close

(A booking form, in PDF format, can be printed out from here.)

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