Collaboration

NHC produced the interviews, a cultural and intellectual history —in 862 parts — of the latter part of the 20th century.

UNC provided the expertise in digitization and preservation.

RENCI provides the scripting and programming expertise, as well as access to specialized hardware.

Any collaborative project takes on the strength of all institutional partners plus

something more

Work together on a common project, to produce something collectively

Collaboration

What WIRED magazine calls the new, digital socialism When masses of people who own the means of production

work toward a common goal and share their products in common, when they contribute labor without wages and enjoy the fruits free of charge, it's not unreasonable to call that socialism. — WIRED MAGAZINE: 17.06 (June 2009)

Digital tools make it possible for projects to organize themselves

in unprecedented ways.

RENCI

Docsoft:AV uses an advanced speech recognition engine to analyze the spoken content within digital AV files and converts it to an XML based format. The result can automatically be transformed to output formats such as Quicktime Text, RealText, SAMI or plain text.

Combining the generated transcript file with the video will allow users to create the necessary closed caption feature for ADA compliance. Using the Docsoft:SA, indexing and search capabilities can now be obtained from the transcript originally generated by the Docsoft:AV appliance.

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DocSoft AV

inputsdigital audiodigital video

outputtxt

txt with timestamp

WordPress Content DM

MySQL (scalable)PHP (extensible)

Plugins (csv to post)Open Source (extends collaboration further)

screenshot

Designed to integrate with library catalogs.

CMS with a web-friendly GUI.

Custom Editing Tool

Flash basedUses the time-stamped txt to display textual representations of the spoken audio.

Displays in editing pane.

While it does not speed up the process, it engages the listener/reader by showing a minimal amount of text at a time.

demo

developed by Joe Hope of RENCI

Soundings online

Website-based archive (of nearly all 862 episodes)iTunes UPodcastingTranscripts embedded in ID3 tags

Instead of managing a team of editors,make available the tools for self-organization

Documenting

metadata: tells future technicians and technical audiences what was done (librarians, audiophiles, web-developers)

plain language: tells interested parties what was done (senior leadership at instution)

multimedia: speaks to known and unknown audiences (Board of Directors, general public)

echoSoundingsDocumenting the Preservation of Soundings

http://www.vimeo.com/1931027