use case: radio station archive digitization

Use Case:Radio Station Archive Digitization

Owners:Steven Morris David Smith William Waites

Presenter:Ray Denenberg

Current Practice

Radio stations archive audio programs


Often not digitized


Often not digitized

Little or inconsistent metadata


Often not digitized


Occasional efforts to digitize these programs and create metadata


Often not digitized


Occasional efforts to digitize these programs and create metadata

Metadata creation usually ad-hoc

indexed and searchable


cross references to other events particularly news broadcasts


cross references to other events particularly news broadcasts

enable federated searching Across programs and cross referenced

events

Scenario

Scenario ……

……. at the Radio Mogadishu archives

An expert works with an archivist to create and annotate digital archives


The archivist has archives stored on old tapes, has a catalog system, but much of the information is simply in his memory.


The archivist has archives stored on old tapes, has a catalog system, but much of the information is simply in his memory.

As the expert creates the digital versions, he annotates them with information from the catalog system, the archivist, and a native (Somali) speaker listening to the tapes.

Application of linked data

Exploit the extensibility of RDF


New predicates can be defined as needed.Examples:


New predicates can be defined as needed.Examples: Define a subproperty of dc:identifier for the

Radio Mogadishu Archives tape labelling scheme.




Annotate a recording with information about the participants: is it an interview? Who is the interviewer? The interviewee? The station director at the time?




Annotate a recording with information about the participants: is it an interview? Who is the interviewer? The interviewee? The station director at the time?

Create URIs for the people involved.

Problems and Limitations

Little guidance for creating metadata about audio recordings


Where to annotate who did the digitization? Who transcribed the metadata?



When to create Works, when Manifestations.



When to create Works, when Manifestations.

No vocabulary to describe the state of source material, e.g. "readable", "partially- readable", "unrecoverable"

Problems and Limitations (Continued) Confidence/Uncertainly

How to preserve information about the transcriber's uncertainty. “Looks like an X but might be Y”. "Is that an 8 or a 3?"

use case: radio station archive digitization

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