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Try Qualidata for advice on this: http://www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata/about/introduction.asp "ESDS Qualidata is a specialist service of the ESDS led by the UK Data Archive (UKDA) at the University of Essex. The service provides access and support for a range of social science qualitative datasets, promoting and facilitating increased and more effective use of data in research, learning and teaching. The work builds on Qualidata's expertise and international reputation in this area. The service's focus is on acquiring digital data collections from purely qualitative and mixed methods contemporary research and from UK-based 'classic studies'. Data are typically acquired via the ESRC Datasets Policy that requires all research grant award holders to offer data collected during the course of their research for preservation and sharing through the ESDS. ESDS Qualidata works closely with data creators to ensure that high quality and well-documented qualitative data are produced. General guidance and a dedicated advisory service for data creators and depositors on research project management, issues of confidentiality and consent, and data documentation of data for archiving are provided. ESDS Qualidata offers a resource discovery hub via the Data Catalogue, enabling users to locate accessible sources of qualitative data across the UK. ESDS Qualidata facilitates the preservation of important large paper collections, and where appropriate, digitises samples of these collections. The service is committed to creating value-added data resources through enriched data context as well as developing authenticated online access to qualitative data. Related research and development work undertaken by ESDS Qualidata staff have provided some important methodological and technical developments for sharing qualitative data. Finally, ESDS Qualidata offers user support and training to encourage professional researchers and research students alike to make full use of the rich sources of archived qualitative data." Best wishes, Humphrey Southall Humphrey Southall, Portsmouth Univ, Geography Dept, Buckingham Building, PORTSMOUTH PO1 3HE Historical GIS team: 023 9284 2500 Mobile: 07595 600 331 >>> Susan Buhr <[log in to unmask]> 04/11/2009 15:23 >>> Please forgive me if this is a ludicrously basic question, but I'm from a museum background and not archives- We're in the final stages of an oral history project for which we've interviewed 30 different people, interviews lasting between 10 and 90 minutes. We have CD-Rs which can hold up to approx. 80 minutes of audio and I'm just not sure what sector standard is for storing them in the long term. Should each interview get its own disk, or is it better to consolidate into as few disks as possible? The original plan was to keep a copy on an external drive as well as on a CD, but I've been told it's best to keep 3 copies; is there another format appropriate to this, or is a second copy of the CD best, possibly housed in a different location to the first? I had also planned to keep a word document of the transcript and a scanned copy of the copyright acceptance form on each disk with its accompanying sound file, but does this just muddy the waters? I could've sworn I found a helpful factsheet on all this at some point, but in poking around the obvious places (JISC Digital Media, Collections Trust, Oral History Society, etc) I just can't seem to find anything specific, so any help would be much appreciated! Thanks, Susan Buhr Curator- Hampstead Museum at Burgh House Project Leader- Burgh House Oral History Project, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund phone: 02074310144 www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk Please note my usual working days are Tuesday through Friday only. Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra