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I meant to add this a few days ago. I thought it might be helpful for people to know where I found some resources for making consent forms and making sure I was not infringing on copyright etc, as well as some info about choosing recording equipment:
Advice on recording equipment from GEM:
http://www.gem.org.uk/soyh/toolkit/mini/mini-toolkit-4.php
Advice on recording equipment from East Midlands Oral History Archive:
http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/training/no3.pdf
Info about copyright from East Midlands Oral History Archive::
http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/training/no4.pdf
Oral history interview guidelines and techniques from GEM:
http://www.gem.org.uk/res/howto/ball/res_inter.php
Oral History Ethics from the Oral History Society:
http://www.oralhistory.org.uk/ethics.php
Oral History practical advice for getting started from the Oral History Society:
http://www.oralhistory.org.uk/practical-advice.php
This has a great guide to all things digital, including equipment by JISC:
http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/
And this great link from a friend which compares main digital recording equipment:
http://transom.org/?page_id=7514
and finally, this was the video from the same friend -that helped me choose which audio equipment to get:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmwuS9QOlvs
Fingers crossed it was right :)
As I have said before I was very grateful for the advice I received from the GEM (Group for Education in Museums) discussion mailing list as well as he MCG (Museums Computer Group) mailing list for a lot of this advice. Good luck if you are embarking on the same process....