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.

Collaboration
Work together on a common project,
to produce something collectively
Any collaborative project takes on the
strength of all institutional partners plus
something more
Digital tools make it possible for
projects to organize themselves
in unprecedented ways.
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)

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.

DocSoft AV
inputs output
digital audio txt
digital video txt with timestamp

WordPress Content DM
MySQL (scalable)
PHP (extensible) Designed to integrate with
library catalogs.
Plugins (csv to post)
Open Source (extends CMS with a web-friendly GUI.
collaboration further)
screenshot

Custom Editing Tool
Flash based
Uses the time-stamped txt to display developed by Joe Hope
of RENCI
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

Soundings online
Instead of managing a team of editors,
make available the tools for self-organization
Website-based archive (of nearly all
862 episodes)
iTunes U
Podcasting
Transcripts embedded in ID3 tags

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)

http://www.vimeo.com/1931027
echoSoundings
Documenting the Preservation of Soundings