{"id":114,"date":"2015-03-25T08:46:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T08:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/?p=114"},"modified":"2015-03-25T08:46:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T08:46:38","slug":"british-stand-up-comedy-archive-spring-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/british-stand-up-comedy-archive-spring-update\/","title":{"rendered":"British Stand-Up Comedy Archive spring update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elspeth Millar writes:<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s been quite a while since we blogged, so we thought we’d provide a quick update on how the project is progressing, and our other activities over these first few months of the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive\u00a0Beacon project.<\/p>\n

Collections<\/strong>
\nWe’ve been in contact with a number of potential donors involved in comedy (from comedians to comedy promoters) regarding further deposits – we should be able to announce more details soon! In the meantime, we’ve been sorting, listing and beginning to catalogue our four main collections: Linda Smith, Mark Thomas, Tony Allen, and John Pidgeon.<\/p>\n

We’ve also been working with the UK Web Archive<\/a> to establish a ‘British Stand-Up Comedy Archive’ special collection, to capture websites relating to the material that we physically\/digitally hold, but also (by capturing websites with comedy listings, news and reviews) to capture a snapshot of the UK comedy scene for future researchers.<\/p>\n

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Events<\/strong>
\nUnfortunately we had to cancel our first ‘in conversation’ event with Alexei Sayle in February as Oliver Double broke his hip! Olly will soon be back\u00a0on campus\u00a0and our (now) first ‘in conversation’ event is with Richard Herring on 8th April at the Gulbenkian. Further information can be found on The Gulbenkian’s website<\/a>. The event will be filmed and added to the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive collections.<\/p>\n

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Format explorations for digitisation<\/strong>
\nOne aspect of the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive Beacon project, the one-year funded project as part of the University of Kent’s 50th anniversary celebrations<\/a>, is to investigate the choice of formats for capturing material in a digital form for long-term preservation.\u00a0 There are a number of factors to consider such as:<\/p>\n