‘Unlocking Our Sound Heritage’ (UOSH) is a five-year UK-wide partnership project led by the British Library that will help save the nation’s sounds and open them up to everyone.
Across the country, over 100,000 historical sound recordings are currently under threat, both from physical degradation, and as the means of playing them disappear from production. Professional consensus internationally is that there is approximately 15 years in which to save many of these sound collections through digitisation, before they become unreadable and are effectively lost. Supported by the National Lottery Heritage fund, ‘Unlocking Our Sound Heritage’ seeks to preserve the nation’s sound archives through digitisation, and improve public access to them through online resources and engagement events. Norfolk Record Office is proudly working as one of ten UK wide UOSH hubs and is currently in the process of digitising sound recordings from across the East of England.
Over the next two years we will be sharing updates from the project team and volunteers, including voices from the archives, project updates and advice on caring for your own sound archives through the Norfolk Record Office blog.
For this week’s blog post we introduce you to the UOSH East of England hub project team:
