October 2015

October 27 marks UNESCO's World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. "Archives at Risk: Protecting the World's Identities" is the slogan of this year's celebration. The world’s audiovisual heritage of sound recordings and moving images are extremely vulnerable as a result of...

This morning we had a demonstration from Sony for a new product: Digital Paper. Digital Paper is a platform to manage documents. The device is not meant for reading books on - like a Kindle. It is a purpose built...

Featured Service: Box of Broadcasts (BoB) What is BoB? BoB BoB is an off-air recording service with a massive archive of over 1 million television programmes, radio programmes, and films that have been aired on 60+ UK terrestrial channels since 2007....

Over the last week BoB has been upgraded. BoB is a large video and radio recorder that you can use - in a similar way to iPlayer - except the recordings never expire! Last week's post showed how we can...

We've made a few small adjustments in 3WN to two of the teaching rooms: 3WN2.1 (198 seat lecture theatre) 3WN3.7 (126 seat large flat room) both of these rooms now have TWO data projectors. 3WN2.1 has the ability to show...