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i heart my windshield ;)

5 February 201116 September 2006 by Linda Barwick

I’ve just been travelling in northern Australia with postgrad student Isabel Bickerdike recording songs for our Rausing-funded Western Arnhem Land song project. Conditions ranged from windy through very windy right up to very very windy and boy was I glad I’d invested in a Rycote windshield system! Even though the mike was actually blown over … Read more

Permanence and Accountability

5 February 201112 September 2006 by admin

Jane’s last post and a post on the ever excellent Language Log have got me thinking about permanence and accountability in the internet age. Its a theme that I encounter again and again, working for a digital archive.

Transience and permanence on the web

5 February 201111 September 2006 by Jane Simpson

An RSS feed is forever.. that’s what I forgot in the Technorati post (now deleted) – in my desire to avoid Technorati’s quick blog registration (which requires sending a valuable password into the Technorati ether, perhaps forever…). Sorry all! (And boy have we paid for it with streams of junk comments from strip poker sites!).

Solar Power in the Field (part 3)

5 February 20116 September 2006 by admin

In the last post in this series we figured out how much power we’d need. Now the really important part – we choose our panel and battery and stick it all together.

“The recorder did it!”

5 February 201129 August 2006 by admin

I’m sure we’ve all done it from time to time: somehow, despite carefully trying to do something else altogether, we delete a critical and unique recording on our flash recorder… never to be heard again.
But all is not lost, in fact its often really quite simple to get it back… but only if you’ve taken the necessary precautions.

“Digital” Video

5 February 201125 August 2006 by admin

Researchers are increasingly using video in their fieldwork. Starting with cheap analogue formats and now digital formats, it is easy and affordable to begin video-taping everything… In the same way that we can now record audio for everything.
…Well, actually I’m not quite convinced yet.

Sustainable data from digital fieldwork: “from creation to archive and back”

5 February 201124 August 2006 by admin

Many academic disciplines depend on analysis of primary data captured during fieldwork. Increasingly, researchers today are using digital methods for the whole life cycle of their primary data, from capture to organisation, submission to a repository or archive, and later access and dissemination in publications, teaching resources and conference presentations. This conference and workshop will showcase a number of projects that have been developing innovative and sustainable ways of managing such data.

Solar Power in the Field (Part 2)

5 February 201124 August 2006 by admin

OK, we’ve got together all the equipment that we want to use. Now we need to estimate the power consumption of these devices so that we purchase the right size of solar panel and battery. This also applies to portable generators too, which can be a good source of power…if its an option.

Current fieldwork technology – over to an aunt!

5 February 201110 August 2006 by Jane Simpson

Our sister blogger (perhaps ‘aunt’ since she’s been blogging much longer!) Claire Bowern has started to post sections of her draft manual on fieldwork on her blog. First off are some gripping posts on those inevitable initial questions: “What recording equipment should I get?” The answers change each year – but the categories Claire uses … Read more

Solar Power in the Field (Part 1)

5 February 20117 August 2006 by admin

I don’t know how many parts this will be all together, but writing up a guide to getting a solar power kit together is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while.
In today’s instalment, we’ll be looking at how to prepare for a trip.