Oral History Society Training
Digitisation and Digital Editing: An Introduction for Oral Historians
Course Dates | Programme | Booking Form
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 site specific playback. It will be led by Rob Perks (the BL's Curator of Oral History) and Tom Ruane (Audio Engineer, BL Sound & Vision Technical Services).
Please note that the course is aimed at those who have already gathered or archived oral history recordings. 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
Wednesday 14th March 2012British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB
Programme
10.00-10.15 Welcome and introductions
10.15-11.15 What is ‘digital’ audio? Bits, bytes and file types
11.15-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.15 Digitisation: the equipment and software you need
12.15-13.00 Practical session: transferring and digitising audio
13.00-14.00 Lunch (not provided)
14.00-15.00 Ethics and practice of oral history editing
15.00-15.15 Tea
15.15-16.45 Practical session: digital editing
16.45-17.15 Using digitised oral history in public spaces and websites
17.15 Close