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 [...]

Weekly update (2)

The past seven days have flown by and here I am writing a weekly update again.  At the beginning of this week I attended a course at JISC Digital Media in Bristol.  The team there seem to be a good bunch and are incredibly knowledgeable and well prepared for the training they deliver.  They have been [...]

Weekly update (1)

It’s quite hard in the midst of a project like this to update the blog with all of the daily activities so I will endeavour to provide a weekly update.  This is the first – so here we go. The first steering group meeting took place on Monday with lots of useful ideas being produced.  [...]

The project…

Now that we’ve cleared up what this blog is for perhaps it would be a good time to say something about the project. This project has been initiated because the special collections managed by the University of Leicester Library (UoL), the Media Archive for Central England (MACE) and the East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA) are [...]

In the beginning…

This is the first post on the My Leicestershire Digital Archive (MLDA) project blog. The purpose of this blog is to act as a team diary recording our travails setting up the archive and working with community partners to select and digitise items to be prioritised for inclusion. We hope that as the project progresses [...]