End of project workshop

Ten months have passed by very quickly and the project ended formally on 31 March 2011. My Leicestershire Digital Archive – to be renamed My Leicestershire History when we update the user interface this summer – is now a reality and contains a rich set of resources covering the history of Leicester and Leicestershire from [...]

Making progress

We’ve just had one of our regular project team meetings and spent some time checking progress against all our ‘workpackages’. It was good to note all the things we’ve achieved or made progress on to date. Our major milestones include creating our ‘base’ collection by the end of October and to have community contributed content [...]

Digitising sound – first steps

The equipment for digitising the oral history and radio tapes has now been set up and is ready to go! The tapes will be played on two ex-BBC Studer A807 tape players. These marvellous machines are sturdy workhorses which just seem to keep going and going. For software we’re using Adobe Audition 3 on Samsung [...]