Re: [CODE4LIB] Oral history app and server
Hi Robin, Thanks so much for your comments. I was thinking of a completely automated process. I'm thinking of it as oral history because, at least in the initial use of the program, we'd use a set list of questions for all respondents. I realise it probably won't be as good/useful as the product of a trained interviewer, and the system could accommodate machine and human mediation. That could be a part of the metadata so you could analyze how people respond to human vs computer questioning. Another possibility would be to use one set of questions for the computer interview, then invite participants to schedule a person-to-person interview. Kind of like recruiting people into a cult. I guess the main thing I'm trying to do is leverage technology to get oral histories available in an admittedly less-than-perfect form as quickly as possible so it can be improved via crowd sourcing. The interview's the easy part, but there's often a lag until it becomes useable. If people are committed and know what they're doing, the loop closes with a searchable archive of transcribed interviews. This is for people and organizations who are kind of committed and don't really know what they're doing. Thanks again for your thoughts and the links! Paul On 10/2/12 3:39 PM, Robin Dean wrote: Hi Paul, Just to clarify what you mean by automated--are you looking for a process that completely removes the need for an interviewer, and only involves people recording their answers to a questionnaire alone with a machine? The seems to be the model the Outhouse project was experimenting with. Even then, this article says that in one of the Outhouse initiatives, around half of the participants preferred to do face-to-face interviews rather than be recorded alone in a booth: http://camra.culturemap.org.au/central-darling/outhouse-research I think it's a good idea to digitally capture more first-person stories, but I have trouble thinking of them as oral histories without a human interviewer. If you're interested, here are a couple more projects that are looking at how to increase the number of digital oral histories that are captured, preserved, and usefully made accessible. Colorado Voice Preserve (they are currently looking at the infrastructure needed for a statewide oral history initiative, including technical requirements): http://www.voicepreserve.org IMLS Oral History in the Digital Age site: http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/ Best, Robin Dean Director, Alliance Digital Repository Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries http://adrresources.coalliance.org/ -- *Paul Orkiszewski* Coordinator of Library Technology Services / Associate Professor University Library Appalachian State University 218 College Street P.O. Box 32026 Boone, NC 28608-2026 E-mail: orkiszews...@appstate.edu Phone: 828 262 6588 Fax: 828 262 2797
Re: [CODE4LIB] Oral history app and server
Very cool. Audio should be easier than video. Thanks Jason! -- Paul On 10/3/12 2:00 PM, Jason Ronallo wrote: Paul, You may want to look at WebRTC: http://www.webrtc.org/ Especially getUserMedia which allows for video capture within the browser from a users webcam: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/getusermedia/intro/ This is bleeding edge stuff and probably not ready for a real project, but it may be that something like this enables the kind of project you're wanting to do. Chrome seems to be out front with this last I looked. Jason On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Paul Orkiszewski orkiszews...@appstate.edu wrote: Hi 4libers, Does anyone know of something - a kiosk, an iPad app, a web application - that: - Initiates an oral history interview by getting demographic info and permission to use and stream for scholarly purposes. -- *Paul Orkiszewski* Coordinator of Library Technology Services / Associate Professor University Library Appalachian State University 218 College Street P.O. Box 32026 Boone, NC 28608-2026 E-mail: orkiszews...@appstate.edu Phone: 828 262 6588 Fax: 828 262 2797
Re: [CODE4LIB] Oral history app and server
Record ; send ; speech-to-text ; share and improve -- that's pretty much the algorithm. Or musically - Vamp til ready ||: fire aim ready :|| Paul On 10/3/12 4:01 PM, Al Matthews wrote: Hi all. Thanks Jason for the excellent links. Chrome seems to be out front with this last I looked. After somehow spending an hour reading all this, it seems like audio doesn't work yet, right? Except on Chromium canary on Mac. Which is something. Mozilla's also big into this as well http://mozillapopcorn.org/ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Audio_Data_API . The latter remains Firefox-specific and Mozilla marks it as deprecated. Still, it exists. Android has a speech API http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/03/speech-input-api-for-android.html, and implements Media Capture it seems. As a fine alternative, and more general, http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/gstreamer seems like a sane postprocessed example. Dear to me, that last. But doesn't one simplify all this by keeping recording off the cloud and building out the separate components? Record ; send ; speech-to-text ; share and improve . I do like this, Paul, the idea. Al Matthews, Software Dev, Atlanta University Center From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jason Ronallo [jrona...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 2:00 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Oral history app and server Paul, You may want to look at WebRTC: http://www.webrtc.org/ Especially getUserMedia which allows for video capture within the browser from a users webcam: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/getusermedia/intro/ This is bleeding edge stuff and probably not ready for a real project, but it may be that something like this enables the kind of project you're wanting to do. Chrome seems to be out front with this last I looked. Jason On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Paul Orkiszewski orkiszews...@appstate.edu wrote: Hi 4libers, Does anyone know of something - a kiosk, an iPad app, a web application - that: - Initiates an oral history interview by getting demographic info and permission to use and stream for scholarly purposes. - ** The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. They are intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager or the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to anyone or make copies. ** IronMail scanned this email for viruses, vandals and malicious content. ** ** -- *Paul Orkiszewski* Coordinator of Library Technology Services / Associate Professor University Library Appalachian State University 218 College Street P.O. Box 32026 Boone, NC 28608-2026 E-mail: orkiszews...@appstate.edu Phone: 828 262 6588 Fax: 828 262 2797
[CODE4LIB] Oral history app and server
Hi 4libers, Does anyone know of something - a kiosk, an iPad app, a web application - that: - Initiates an oral history interview by getting demographic info and permission to use and stream for scholarly purposes. - Goes through a standard set of questions (in our case stuff about the Appalachian State experience) - Stores the metadata, permissions release, and pointers to the audio files created for each question in a dbase record - Processes the audio through speech recognition either in real time or post-interview, and populates the dbase record with rendered text (at whatever level of accuracy) - Provide a search interface, where the meatadata, demographic info (within reasonable privacy limits), and the transcript (however garbled) is searchable. - Crowd source the improvement of the transcriptions over time - Package the interface as an app, and set up a machine image on Amazon EC2, such that when someone uses the image and points a browser to it, it goes through a set up routine so that smaller schools and historical societies can set up their own sites in the cloud. I haven't tried streaming on a free tier EC2 server, but you get 30 GB of storage, so you could get a fair number of hours of audio (depending on the settings) before you have to start paying. ? Anyone interested in trying it with me if there's nothing already out there? I'm leaning toward iPad, so we'd need iOS, server admin, dbase, and media expertise. I have newbie-but-getting-better skill in the last 3. Zero skill in iOS. Paul -- *Paul Orkiszewski* Coordinator of Library Technology Services / Associate Professor University Library Appalachian State University 218 College Street P.O. Box 32026 Boone, NC 28608-2026 E-mail: orkiszews...@appstate.edu Phone: 828 262 6588 Fax: 828 262 2797
Re: [CODE4LIB] Oral history app and server
That's certainly part of my inspiration, as well as the Outhouse Storycatcher http://camra.culturemap.org.au/culturewatch/outhouse-features-nsw-indigenous-cultural-summit in Australia, and other sites throughout the US such as the University of Georgia http://www.libs.uga.edu/russell/exhibits/permanent.html but, as far as I can tell, I don't think they are automated processes. I think better oral history is done with a trained interviewer and professional transcription, but we could get more stuff up quickly that would be better than nothing (and better than losing history to death), which over time could turn into a very rich resource for studying particular communities. -- Paul On 10/2/12 8:54 AM, Johan Oomen wrote: Did you look at http://storycorps.org/ ? Best, Johan @johanoomen 2012/10/2 Paul Orkiszewskiorkiszews...@appstate.edu Hi 4libers, Does anyone know of something - a kiosk, an iPad app, a web application - that: - Initiates an oral history interview by getting demographic info and permission to use and stream for scholarly purposes. - Goes through a standard set of questions (in our case stuff about the Appalachian State experience) - Stores the metadata, permissions release, and pointers to the audio files created for each question in a dbase record - Processes the audio through speech recognition either in real time or post-interview, and populates the dbase record with rendered text (at whatever level of accuracy) - Provide a search interface, where the meatadata, demographic info (within reasonable privacy limits), and the transcript (however garbled) is searchable. - Crowd source the improvement of the transcriptions over time - Package the interface as an app, and set up a machine image on Amazon EC2, such that when someone uses the image and points a browser to it, it goes through a set up routine so that smaller schools and historical societies can set up their own sites in the cloud. I haven't tried streaming on a free tier EC2 server, but you get 30 GB of storage, so you could get a fair number of hours of audio (depending on the settings) before you have to start paying. ? Anyone interested in trying it with me if there's nothing already out there? I'm leaning toward iPad, so we'd need iOS, server admin, dbase, and media expertise. I have newbie-but-getting-better skill in the last 3. Zero skill in iOS. Paul -- --**--** *Paul Orkiszewski* Coordinator of Library Technology Services / Associate Professor University Library Appalachian State University 218 College Street P.O. Box 32026 Boone, NC 28608-2026 E-mail: orkiszews...@appstate.edu Phone: 828 262 6588 Fax: 828 262 2797 --**--** -- *Paul Orkiszewski* Coordinator of Library Technology Services / Associate Professor University Library Appalachian State University 218 College Street P.O. Box 32026 Boone, NC 28608-2026 E-mail: orkiszews...@appstate.edu Phone: 828 262 6588 Fax: 828 262 2797
[CODE4LIB] Help with Chinese exchange librarian
Hi all. We have an exchange librarian who's a technology manager in the library at Fudan University, China. His written English is pretty good but spoken not so much. Is there a fluent Chinese speaker in code4lib land that would be willing to help me decipher his skill set and help me match him up with some good projects? Paul -- *Paul Orkiszewski* Coordinator of Library Technology Services / Associate Professor University Library Appalachian State University 218 College Street P.O. Box 32026 Boone, NC 28608-2026 E-mail: orkiszews...@appstate.edu Phone: 828 262 6588 Fax: 828 262 2797
Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with Chinese exchange librarian
Thanks for your offer to help! We do have Chinese speakers on campus, but not Chinese speakers with a library technology background who can talk about harvesting e-resource usage data, or developing a library module for our course system, or other things that make my friends and relatives glaze over when I talk about what I do. Paul On 7/12/12 12:16 PM, Kaile Zhu wrote: I thought nowadays you find Chinese people on every university's campus. I may help you with the situation. Kelly Zhu (405)974-5957 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Orkiszewski Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 10:42 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Help with Chinese exchange librarian Hi all. We have an exchange librarian who's a technology manager in the library at Fudan University, China. His written English is pretty good but spoken not so much. Is there a fluent Chinese speaker in code4lib land that would be willing to help me decipher his skill set and help me match him up with some good projects? Paul -- *Paul Orkiszewski* Coordinator of Library Technology Services / Associate Professor University Library Appalachian State University 218 College Street P.O. Box 32026 Boone, NC 28608-2026 E-mail: orkiszews...@appstate.edu Phone: 828 262 6588 Fax: 828 262 2797
Re: [CODE4LIB] Studying the email list
Exactly the kind of observation that makes this list worth studying -- Paul On 6/5/12 12:57 PM, Daniel Suchy wrote: Folks: aren't we forgetting the first step? Do we even have OCLC's permission?! Sorry :) Dan On 6/5/12 9:52 AM, Truitt, Marcmarc.tru...@ualberta.ca wrote: On 06/04/2012 02:44 PM, Paul Orkiszewski wrote: the outcomes would be anonymous and there would be no e-mail harvest of any kind, especially and specifically any commercial harvesting. [...] Eric Lease Morgan, the list admin, can provide an archive of the list, but I wanted to check with all of you before I asked for it. Funny... and here I thought that Paul was simply being considerate of the possible sensitivities of list members by asking first! I appreciated the question and the explanation of his intended use. I guess I'm just too olde-school... [sigh], - mt -- * Marc Truitt Associate University Librarian, Bibliographic and Information Voice : 780-492-4770 Technology Services e-mail : marc.tru...@ualberta.ca University of Alberta Libraries fax: 780-492-9243 Cameron Library cell : 780-217-0356 Edmonton, AB T6G 2J8 It remains difficult to know when and how much to trust the wisdom of crowds [...] Crowds turn all too quickly into mobs, with their time- honored manifestations: manias, bubbles, lynch mobs, flash mobs, crusades, mass hysteria, herd mentality, goose-stepping, conformity, groupthink [...]. Collective judgment has appealing possibilities; collective self-deception and collective evil have already left a cataclysmic record. -- , 2011 * -- *Paul Orkiszewski* Coordinator of Library Technology Services / Associate Professor University Library Appalachian State University 218 College Street P.O. Box 32026 Boone, NC 28608-2026 E-mail: orkiszews...@appstate.edu Phone: 828 262 6588 Fax: 828 262 2797
[CODE4LIB] Studying the email list
Hi all, I'm interested in analyzing the list archives with a goal of studying how concepts move through the list over time, the relationship (or non-relationship) between discussions in the list and eventual implementations and practices in the broader library community, the zeitgeist over time of an active development community, etc. I'm not sure about the tools and products at the moment, but the outcomes would be anonymous and there would be no e-mail harvest of any kind, especially and specifically any commercial harvesting. An initial idea as an example of what I'm thinking about is to generate word clouds that could give a snapshot of what's going on over some defined period of time, or concepts most closely associated with a particular term, or an overlap analysis against one of the library science databases. Stuff like that. Eric Lease Morgan, the list admin, can provide an archive of the list, but I wanted to check with all of you before I asked for it. Cheers, Paul -- *Paul Orkiszewski* Coordinator of Library Technology Services / Associate Professor University Library Appalachian State University 218 College Street P.O. Box 32026 Boone, NC 28608-2026 E-mail: orkiszews...@appstate.edu Phone: 828 262 6588 Fax: 828 262 2797
[CODE4LIB] Library tablet app
Hi all I was wondering if anyone's working on a tablet app for your library site that takes advantage of the tablet environment. I'm not sure what that is and whether it's that different from a smart phone or full-sized computer, but I feel like it is. I see some library apps in the Amazon store, but most of them are iterations of Boopsie software. They're OK, but it seems like they could do more. I just have no idea what that more is. What would an app specifically geared toward tablet architecture look like? Would it have a level? Could you land airplanes or launch angry birds at the reference desk? *Paul Orkiszewski* Coordinator of Technology Services / Associate Professor University Library Appalachian State University 218 College Street P.O. Box 32026 Boone, NC 28608-2026 E-mail: orkiszews...@appstate.edu Phone: 828 262 6588 Fax: 828 262 2797 __
