Inside Medical Science: Conversations with Experts (360G-Wellcome-203700_Z_16_Z)

Oxford Brookes University is the custodian of the Medical Sciences Video Archive, a collection of 287 video recorded interviews with prominent figures in medicine created between 1985 and 2002. The collection is unique and represents the only recorded interviews with prominent figures from medical science, including a selection of Nobel Prize winners. At present the collection is trapped in legacy formats that do not allow for wider dissemination and use. The University proposes to digitise the recordings and make them openly available on the web. The imperative for digitising the collection is driven by two factors; increasing access to the recordings, and enabling their long-term preservation. Digitisation will address both of these issues, ensuring that the materials have as wide an impact as possible, and guaranteeing their on-going preservation beyond the life of the current physical media on which they are stored. The collection will be made available online, with no restrictions on access, via Oxford Brookes University's Research Archive and Digital Asset Repository (RADAR). A dedicated collection and associated web pages will be created. Long-term preservation, curation and secure storage of the digitised collection will be delivered by the Arkivum service currently in use at Oxford Brookes University.