My Leicestershire Digital Archive: digitising the oral history and radio programmes

Digitising the Oral History and Radio Programmes

The Reel to Reel Players

The Laptops

The Analogue/Digital Converters

The Set Up

Keeping it all clean

Facts and Figures
Around 120 oral history interviews were digitised and put on My Leicestershire
Around 100 radio programmes were digitised and put on My Leicestershire
They were digitised at 48Khz 24bit rather than CD standard of 44.1Khz 16bit
They were then resampled to 64kbps .wma files for the website

Lessons learnt
This takes a long time! Each interview is comprised of one or more tapes which hold 15 minutes per side (a few hold 30 minutes)
The longest interviews covered up to 16 sides of tape i.e. four hours or more
Adding metadata and ‘batch processing’ the files can also take quite a bit of time
The most I managed to get through in one day, using two machines, was around 40 sides of tape
My (limited) experience with community groups is that this can prove to be too much work

My Leicestershire Digital Archive: digitising the oral history and radio programmes

by myleicestershire on Apr 18, 2011

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