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 BOOKEDIT 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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