Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Archival Audio files

I met with Charlie today to ask about digitizing some books from the Archives, and he showed me the audio files he had dating over the last 20 years - oral history of the college. What a great find. There are 55 files, 16 G of data, mostly in .wav format. I would really love to see this collection get put up!

Suggested two different formats to CC -http://repository.uwyo.edu/njat_oralhistories/ from Wyoming Scholars Repository (Not Just a Teacher collection), where they stream the interview. They also have a photo of the teacher, and a transcript of the interview as part of the metadata. The second was the Dory collection from Linfield College: http://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/dory/ where they have the audio file as a download in both MVA and the larger WAV archival formats. This is a slightly more robust collection, with extensive photos, interviews, transcripts, and even some videos. Charlie liked a hybrid approach, as did I, of having a streaming option, combined with being able to download the file, too. I contacted bepress, and they set up a collection on the demo site: http://demo.brockport.bepress.com/archival_test_series/.

Met with Bob today (6/26) to discuss possible format, etc. to put the audio files up in. He suggested conversion to MPG, with the option to play directly from the browser. He also mentioned not putting up the .wav files to be downloaded, unless we wanted others to be able to edit them - we don't right?

I asked whether this would be something we could get a student with a specific skill set to convert, and he suggested the Communications department might teach that skill set, so to check with them. Or apply for grant money to outsource it.



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