Facilitating access to large digital oral history archives through informedia technologies

This paper discusses the application of speech alignment, image processing, and language understanding technologies to build efficient interfaces into large digital oral history archives, as exemplified by a thousand hour HistoryMakers corpus. Browsing, querying, and navigation features are discussed. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.1 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: Multimedia Information Systems. H.3.1, H.3.7 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Content Analysis and Indexing, Digital Libraries. General Terms: Design, Human Factors.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: JCDL
• Authors: Michael G. Christel, Julieanna Richardson, Howard D. Wactlar
• Keywords: Digital Oral History, Efficient Interfaces, JCDL 2006, Language Understanding Technologies