Pt. 2 will be the software side of this (Domesday) project, not the vhs-decode. Software is considerably more complex and nuanced than capturing and why he decided to make a 2-part video for a deeper dive.
I'm hoping he does vhs-decode too, it's far more accessible and potentially can bring the attention to more people as this also serves many's personal purposes of having a digital master of their home tapes (and not necessarily or exclusively preserving [no longer available] commercial media.
Which contrasted this with the Windrush scandal where the Home Office destroyed the legal documents of people welcomed from the Caribbean in the Sixties, and in their absence started to deport them.
Update: that is an excellent video, setting the context of the problem and walking through the fix. I doubt I would have found it.
The name "Domesday" (pronounced like "Doomsday") comes from effort to archive the laserdiscs from the BBC Domesday Project [0], which was a cultural successor to the Domesday Book [1]. The original Domesday Book was a sort of written time capsule of life in 11th century England, and the Domesday project was a digital time capsule of the UK in the mid-1980s. After lapses in archival by the BBC, the Domesday Project is being kept alive by independent volunteer efforts.
The BBC Domesday Project has some remarkable content, containing observations on life from an extraordinary range of people at the time it was made. I recently read an entry from a child of the age I would have been at the time, talking about "milk time" (if anyone remembers that) and the school day. It was fascinating.
It was brought back online for a while, but I can't seem to find it, the BBC have archived the page:
The Domesday Project came from the early years of mass computing, when we (collectively) hadn’t yet learned some important lessons about data management. I think experiences like this project are one of the reasons we are better at digital preservation now. The main risks to data durability are no longer technical, but social - neglect, for example.
I remember participating in the Domesday Project in the eighties when I was in primary school, and it inspired me to help set up similar project in 2005 (https://www.geograph.org.uk). At the time, we were in contact with the BBC to see if we could incorporate the Domesday data, and while they were warmly receptive to the idea, they concluded the legal framework under which the original data was collected did not allow for much flexibility in re-purposing it.
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This hardware is incredible. It's somewhat like the difference between RAW and JPG. We can properly rip LDs now.
I'm hoping he does vhs-decode too, it's far more accessible and potentially can bring the attention to more people as this also serves many's personal purposes of having a digital master of their home tapes (and not necessarily or exclusively preserving [no longer available] commercial media.
https://timharford.com/2023/11/cautionary-tales-laser-versus...
Which contrasted this with the Windrush scandal where the Home Office destroyed the legal documents of people welcomed from the Caribbean in the Sixties, and in their absence started to deport them.
Update: that is an excellent video, setting the context of the problem and walking through the fix. I doubt I would have found it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book
Monks with Laser Quills copying out Laser Discs.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cautionary-tales-with-...
Coincidence?
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project
1: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/domesday/
I try to be kind online.
Which if memory serves made it tricky to search. Is there data in a database form that can be queried?
It has place name and name indexes all cross linked to entries. They are paradox database tables underneath.
More information can be found here:
https://www.domesdaybook.net
Also see:
https://opendomesday.org/
Which uses much of the same data but is available on the web.
It was brought back online for a while, but I can't seem to find it, the BBC have archived the page:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/domesday
I remember participating in the Domesday Project in the eighties when I was in primary school, and it inspired me to help set up similar project in 2005 (https://www.geograph.org.uk). At the time, we were in contact with the BBC to see if we could incorporate the Domesday data, and while they were warmly receptive to the idea, they concluded the legal framework under which the original data was collected did not allow for much flexibility in re-purposing it.