Digitisation of the South Asian oral history archive
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Grant Holder:
Dr Kevin Greenbank
The Centre of South Asian Studies won a Resource Enhancement Grant from the AHRC to begin the digitisation of its oral history collections. There are around 300 recordings in this collection, mostly held on audio cassette, with some reel-to-reel tape recordings as well. The project was completed in 2009 - the interviews, transcripts and various search functions are now available on the Centre of South Asian Studies' website.
mp3 files were created from WAV audio files for the purpose of web delivery of the content.
| Project start date: 2006-03 | Project end date: 2009-02 |
Subject domains:
Era(s):
Country/region(s):
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Indexing | Data analysis |
| Data modelling | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Sound recording | Data capture |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| Searching and querying | Data analysis |
| Server scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Sound compression | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Sound editing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Streaming media | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Web browser scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Curation | Strategy and project management |
| sound | Content types |
| text | Content types |
| history | Discipline |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created:
Dataset/structured data, Sound, Text
Software tools used:
MySQL, PHP, Adobe Acrobat, Logic, MS Office
Source material used:
Sound recordings, meta data, and transcripts
Digital resource created:
The recordings are mostly oral history interviews, although there are some lexicons of obscure languages, recordings of music and one or two cases where letters are read out. All relate to South Asia, most to India and Pakistan - a great number of which deal explicitly with the period before, during and after partition.
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Data Formats created:
MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3) (for webstream), Waveform Audio file (WAV) (for archiving), Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) (transcripts)
Metadata standards employed:
Dublin Core, qualified (DC)
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Kevin Greenbank, Ivan Coleby |
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| Other staff: | |
| External expertise: |
| Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record | |
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| Author(s) of record | Kevin Greenbank |
| Title | Digitisation of the South Asian oral history archive |
| Record created | 2008-08-21 |
| Record updated | 2010-06-30 10:58 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2289 |
| Citation of record | Kevin Greenbank: Digitisation of the South Asian oral history archive. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2289> created: 2008-08-21, last updated 2010-06-30 10:58 |