FIX IT - A Transcript Game to Make Historic Public Broadcasting More Discoverable
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The document discusses a project aimed at enhancing the discoverability of historic public broadcasting content by addressing issues such as incomplete metadata and limited staff resources. The initiative involves crowdsourcing efforts and outreach to various audience groups, along with plans for edit-a-thons and the use of JSON transcripts for better accessibility and keyword searching. The goal is to improve access to a significant collection of over 68,000 digitized programs while fulfilling the responsibility to users.
FIX IT - A Transcript Game to Make Historic Public Broadcasting More Discoverable
- 1. a transcript game to make historic public broadcasting more discoverable Casey E. Davis Kaufman Associate Director, WGBH Media Library and Archives Project Manager, American Archive of Public Broadcasting
- 2. WGBH Educational Foundation Boston, Massachusetts • We produce at least one third of the content broadcast on PBS • NOVA, FRONTLINE, Antiques Roadshow, American Experience, Masterpiece Theatre, Arthur, Curious George Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center Culpeper, Virginia
- 5. the situation ■ 68,000+ digitized television and radio programs ■ incomplete, inaccurate metadata records ■ limited staff resources ■ we need to know what we have in the collection ■ we have a responsibility to users to provide access to the collection ■ continued growth of the collection (content and sparse metadata)
- 20. marketing • targeting outreach to several audiences, including – senior citizens, senior centers, senior living facilities – K-12 students – volunteer opportunity seekers (idealist.com, volunteermatch.com, etc.) – formerly incarcerated individuals – speech-language pathologists – literacy initiatives – Participating stations and public media enthusiasts – archivists, librarians, history lovers • future plan to organize edit-a-thons
- 22. once corrected… • JSON transcripts will be stored on AAPB’s Amazon S3 account • transcripts will be indexed for keyword searching on the AAPB website • transcripts will be made available alongside the media on the record page • transcripts can play as captions within the player • transcripts can be harvested via an API and used as a dataset for research such as a digital humanities project • transcripts can be provided to the stations that contributed the content
- 25. Thank you! Casey E. Davis Kaufman Casey_Davis-Kaufman@wgbh.org @caseyedavis1
Editor's Notes
- #2: Hello everyone, my name is Casey Davis Kaufman and I’m here today to tell you about the American Archive of Public Broadcasting’s new transcript crowdsourcing game FIX IT.
- #3: Who are we? The American Archive of Public Broadcasting is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and WGBH to preserve significant public broadcasting before its content is lost to posterity, and to provide a central web portal for access to the historic programming created by public media over the last 60+ years. WGBH is one of the primary producers of public broadcasting content distributed by PBS. You may be familiar with our programming – NOVA, FRONTLINE, American Experience, Masterpiece Theatre, Antiques Roadshow. Our archive dates back to 1947 for radio and 1951 for TV. And we all know the Library of Congress….
- #4: We’ve digitized more than 50,000 hours of historic public broadcasting television and radio programming, the entire collection is accessible on location at WGBH and the Library of Congress, and more than 20,000 programs are available online in our Online Reading Room.
- #5: Check our our website, our FIX IT game, and follow us on social media.
- #7: Today I’m presenting on an AAPB grant project, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in collaboration between WGBH, Pop Up Archive, and the University of Texas at Austin’s school of Information. The goal of this project is to develop methods of improving access to audiovisual collections through speech-to-text and soundwave analysis. During the project, we worked with Pop Up Archive to create speech-to-text transcripts of the entire AAPB collection. Understanding that speech-to-text produces a transcript’s not 100% accurate, WGBH’s role in the project was to develop a game to engage the public the in the correction of these often error-prone transcripts.
- #20: Built upon something already existing called Kaldi. Pop up archive have just released the code in github but it is not yet tested and we are not sure about documentation. It is just for English