Tobar an Dualchais
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Tobar an Dualchais
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Summary
EDINA and the University of Edinburgh Information Services (IS) were contracted in 2007 to produce a Production Control Application and a Cataloguing Application (for web-based input of metadata) for the Tobar an Dualchais project.
Launched in 2006, the multi-million-pound Heritage Lottery-funded project will preserve, digitise and make available online thousands of hours of recordings from the archives of BBC Scotland, the National Trust for Scotland and the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh. The Tobar an Dualchais project is based at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the Gaelic-language college on Skye.
The collections comprise a wide variety of material, including:
- Stories recorded by John Lorne Campbell on wax cylinders in 1937
- Folklore collected from all over Scotland by Calum Maclean in the 1950s
- Scots songs recorded by Hamish Henderson for the School of Scottish Studies from travelling people in the 1960s
- Conversations recorded on BBC Radio nan Gàidheal
The project has employed more than 20 people, with skills in administration, computing, Gaelic and Scots. Digitising is being carried out in Edinburgh and South Uist in the Hebrides, and people have been employed as home cataloguers throughout Scotland. It is hoped that Tobar an Dualchais will stimulate the culture and economy of different parts of Scotland, including some of the areas which provided many of the original recordings.
EDINA is developing the Tobar an Dualchais website.
EDINA Contact
EDINA is a JISC National Data Centre based at the University of Edinburgh
