Tag: crowdsourcing

How to FIX IT+ and Why: Crowdsourcing to Save Public Media

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Most public radio and television organizations are at-risk of losing their archival materials due to deterioration and the high costs associated with digitization. The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is partnering with George Blood L.P., a digitization vendor, to help AAPB's contributing organizations preserve their collection one transcript and one tape at a time … Continue reading How to FIX IT+ and Why: Crowdsourcing to Save Public Media

#InnovationMonday: Dr. Michael DeBakey and Heart Surgery

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Produced by Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB), this episode of the series "Louisiana Legends" (1982) features the first part of an interview with Dr. Michael DeBakey, a native of Lake Charles, LA who was a preeminent surgeon whose innovations revolutionized heart surgery. During his interview, Dr. DeBakey discusses his father's immigration to Lake Charles from Lebanon, … Continue reading #InnovationMonday: Dr. Michael DeBakey and Heart Surgery

AAPB Launches Transcribe to Digitize Challenge with George Blood!

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Earlier this year, the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) launched FIX IT+, a crowdsourcing tool that invites the public to help improve the searchability of over 50,000 hours of historic public television and radio programming. Now, with the generous support of George Blood, a digitization service provider, the AAPB is launching the Transcribe to … Continue reading AAPB Launches Transcribe to Digitize Challenge with George Blood!

AAPB Transcription Workflow

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The AAPB started creating transcripts as part of our "Improving Access to Time-Based Media through Crowdsourcing and Machine-Learning" grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). For the initial 40,000 hours of the AAPB's collection, we worked with Pop Up Archive to create machine-generated transcripts, which are primarily used for keyword indexing, to … Continue reading AAPB Transcription Workflow

Announcing ROLL THE CREDITS: Classifying and Transcribing Text with Zooniverse

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Today we're launching ROLL THE CREDITS, a new Zooniverse project to engage the public in helping us catalog unseen content in the AAPB archive. Zooniverse is the "world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research." Zooniverse volunteers (like you!) are helping the AAPB in classifying and transcribing the text from extracted frames of uncataloged public … Continue reading Announcing ROLL THE CREDITS: Classifying and Transcribing Text with Zooniverse

“Dockerized” Kaldi Speech-to-Text Tool

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At the AAPB “Crowdsourcing Anecdotes” meeting last Friday at the Association of Moving Image Archivists conference, I talked about a free “Dockerized” build of Kaldi made by Stephen McLaughlin, PHD student at UT Austin School of Information. I thought I would follow up on my introduction to it there by providing links to these resources, … Continue reading “Dockerized” Kaldi Speech-to-Text Tool

AAPB & Pop Up Archive Launch Project to Analyze 40,000 Hours of Historic Public Media

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We are thrilled to announce that the Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded WGBH, on behalf of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, a National Leadership Grant for a project titled "Improving Access to Time-Based Media through Crowdsourcing and Machine Learning." Together, WGBH and Pop Up Archive plan to address the challenges faced … Continue reading AAPB & Pop Up Archive Launch Project to Analyze 40,000 Hours of Historic Public Media