Quarterly Review notes - 5 July 2015   

Website

We have now received access to the website on a test server. Toby has taken an initial look at how it works, and negotiated to have it moved to the Hoffi server as nofitstatearchive.com (we paid to own the domain name for 10 years).

Ali and Toby have since met up with John Ellingsworth, who has built the website, and arranged to spend a month tweaking it, offering feedback, and getting it ready for complete uploads of data, which will include text , pictures, audio and video.

Oral Histories

Several group reminiscence sessions and individual oral history sessions have been carried out, and collated, with summaries.

Videos of shows

We have received back digital copies of our VHS and Super 8 records of early shows. Some other material has been moved from VHS to digital format (using a machine loaned by Dave Id). A separate YouTube account has been created to store these, when they have been changed to MP4 format, etc.

Newspapers

All the newspapers have been photographed, and most of those images have been date stamped now – although we don’t have a complete index of which are promos, features, reviews, etc. However, this is in process, and the best of the content is now ready to upload to the website.

As we are moving to digital manipulation of content, the hard copies have now been sorted, and put into the Glamorgan Archive boxes. We may still refer back to them, but they are ready for delivery.

Show / Year information

The complex task of mapping the whole story has caused us to initially file information in both years and shows, and we are still discussing how best to display that information on the website (based around the nine Chapter format we already created).

We may need to consider how to build in further information about outreach work, collaborations, agency function, apprenticeships and trainees, etc. It will probably fit in the Timeline, but this is not clarified yet.

Artefacts

We have found space in John Street to store props and costumes, etc – so are beginning to gather them together.

We and volunteers will be receiving training (27^th July) from Cardiff Story Museum, about how to use these objects to create stories around them for display and Exhibition.