Digitizing Audio Collections at the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory

I worked with the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory (TARL) to digitize their oral history and conference recording collections. With the assistance of the School of Information, I ran mass digitization at the department’s Information Technology laboratory to create preservation-quality masters and access copies of the 66 audio cassettes in TARL’s collection. Along with digitizing the audio, I also performed maintenance work on the physical cassette materials. After producing the access copies, I created time-stamped transcripts, formatting them to allow them to be both readable to researchers and usable as subtitles for the audio files in a digital asset management system.