Tailoring Methods for Description and Access in Digital Audiovisual Collections

Abstract

This project aims to improve descriptive metadata workflows for digital audiovisual materials at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History through two primary activities. The first activity is the development of a concise taxonomy that defines terms for use in the genre field of a digital object's metadata record. Terms are taken from the FAST subject terminology schema and are chosen to accommodate the breadth of the Briscoe Center's unique A/V holdings while reducing ambiguity. The second activity involves researching and implementing services for the automated generation of audio transcripts. By building a tailored workflow around a flexible transcription API, archivists at all levels of technical experience are enabled to produce transcripts for newly digitized materials as well as batches of files from the backlog.

First Name
Neal
Last Name
Baker
Date
Spring 2023