Hi, I'd very much like to attend this as I've a long standing interest in media archiving and meta-data from my involvement in MPEG and standardisation. However circumstances may preclude me attending, so in any case I've forwarded the message to the BSI reflector concerned with MPEG and media metadata as I know the workshop will be of interest to other members of that list. Best Regards Ed Hartley
On 9 May 2013, at 18:43, "Fadhley, Salim" <salim.fadh...@baml.com> wrote: > I've been invited (and will probably attend) a hack event at the British > Library - the goal is to build help the BL find ways to archive community > radio. > > I've been personally involved with Resonance FM since 2003. In case you've > never heard of it, Resonance is probably the world's most bizarre radio > station. It provides a home for audio artists and musicians who might never > get exposure from commercial radio. > > Resonance has shared an archive of more than a decade's worth of audio on a > bunch of hard-disk drives. The challenge of this event is to find a way to > make sense of it all. The eventual goal will be to allow the British Library > to host Resonance FM's audio in much the same way that it currently does for > the BBC World Service. > > If you are interested, the registration URL is: > http://labs.bl.uk/Competition+2013+-+Hack+Event > > Sal > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Wilson, Paul" <paul.wil...@bl.uk> > Date: 9 May 2013 17:36 > Subject: British Library hack event May 28-29 > To: <s...@stodge.org> > Cc: > > Dear Salim, > > I’m curator of radio here at the British Library, which is now home to the > Resonance FM Archive. Chris Weaver has suggested that you may be interested > in a two-day hack event which BL Labs are hosting at the Library’s Euston > Road premises on Tues 28th and Wed 29th May. The aim of this event is to > resolve some technical issues which are currently preventing us from (a) > archiving the Resonance FM collection into the Library’s Digital Library > System (which will guarantee its survival alongside all the Library’s other > digital media for, in theory, forever!) and (b) cataloguing the collection to > the Library’s online catalogues where researchers and other interested users > can discover the collection’s contents. If these problems are resolved at the > event we also then hope to start building, with Resonance’s > approval/assistance, a (legally compliant) online collection of programmes > from the archive which can then be used by the wider community for creative > or educational purposes, or just for the pleasure of listening. > > The collection which we have taken into the Library is all of the extant > audio since 2002 which we currently hold on a set of hard drives, along with > the schedule data (from 2002 to about July 2007 as Filemaker Pro and from > then onwards as i-Cal). The recordings we’ll be focussing on at the event are > the original ‘day files’ – Resonance’s recordings of transmission, typically > between one and four files per day. What we are hoping to accomplish at the > hack event is to use the transmission dates and start times inherent in the > file names, along with the schedule data, to segment the day files into > individual programmes and link both in a spreadsheet which we can then use to > achieve our stated objectives. > > If this is accomplished quickly at the event we may also wish to look at > resolving some other issues relating to preparation of the Resonance > collection, but the hack event will also be presenting some other British > Library collections which may be of interest to you. > > If you are able to join us for this event – or just part of it even – then > you’d be very welcome. You can find out more and register here: > > http://labs.bl.uk/Competition+2013+-+Hack+Event > > and if you have any questions before the day please feel free to ask. > > Best wishes > > > Paul > > _______________________________________________________ > > Paul Wilson > Curator, Radio > The British Library > 96 Euston Road > London NW1 2DB > Tel: 020 7412 7446 > Email: pwil...@bl.uk > Web: www.bl.uk/soundarchive > > ************************************************************************** > Experience the British Library online at www.bl.uk > > The British Library’s latest Annual Report and Accounts : > www.bl.uk/aboutus/annrep/index.html > > Help the British Library conserve the world's knowledge. Adopt a Book. > www.bl.uk/adoptabook > > The Library's St Pancras site is WiFi - enabled > > ************************************************************************* > > The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally > privileged. 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