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Audiovisual accessibility: Evaluating workflows for transcribing and captioning digital archival content
Journal of Digital Media Management,
8
(3),
264-274
(2020)
Abstract
Accessibility of content should be a major focus for all digital library projects. This article describes how the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library embarked on a grant-funded project to examine different workflows for creating captions and transcripts for archival audiovisual content. Although many institutions have experimented with various methods for creating captioning and transcripts, there is no perfect standard for effectively and inexpensively generating these for archival collections. While working with a diverse set of archival audio and audiovisual files, the J. Willard Marriott Library compared different captioning workflows based on the amount of time to transcribe, the cost of each workflow, and the quality of the final results. This article presents the findings from this study, with information about the different processes that were used to generate the captions for archival content.
Keywords: accessibility; archival collections; audiovisual; captioning; digital collections; transcription
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Author's Biography
Jeremy Myntti is the Head of Digital Library Services at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library, where he supervises faculty and staff who are converting content from analogue to digital, creating and maintaining the metadata for library collections, and preserving digital assets. In his previous position as Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services for the University of Utah Libraries, he was also administrator of the integrated library system.
Molly Rose Steed is the Assistant Head for Moving Image and Sound Archives in the Special Collections Division at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library. This position involves the curation, management and dissemination of analogue and digital audio and video materials that document the history of Utah and the American West and the supervision of the archivists who help care for and provide access to these unique collections of historic time-based media.
