Lee has pretty much captured the key tapes from GC4 now, and there now resides hours – possibly even days – of footage from the show on the studio drobo. One of the plans we’ve been chipping away at for months now is the gradual release of all of the archive material, and it seems [...]

Things are suddenly, rapidly coming into focus. Following the show, we spend a lot of time gathering feedback, anecdote, praise, complaint – and then try and order it into something we can learn from. More often than not, the complaints tend to be the same ones that we would levy against ourselves. This year in [...]

A strange meeting yesterday, in which some Consultants presented their findings from an initial research exercise examining the state of Digital Inclusion in Nottingham and how it can be improved. To begin with, they presented a context statement laying the a broad definition of Digital Inclusion / exclusion and what it could mean to the [...]

Last week, Jimmy and I went to West Bromwich to attend a Digital Archiving conference organised by the lovely Screen WM people. Excellent event, with truly inspirational talks from Tony Ageh, the Home of Metal project and the National Fairground Archive. Perhaps most encouraging was the realisation that many of the activities we’re currently engaged [...]