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Unlocking the Fresh Air Archiveswith APIs and URIs
Holly Tomren, Drexel University @htomren
Anu Paul, WHYY, Inc. @anu_paul94
#freshairarchives
Fresh AirPhoto credit: Dan Burke
Digitization
Photo credit: Wanyu Zhang, NPR Historical Archive.
“Save the Tapes” On air campaign
CLIR Grant2015-2016
Enhance the metadata for 8,340
recordings (40 years of the program),
using international library standards
CLIR Grant2015-2016
Upgrade the metadata entry interface
in a way that can be used by
catalogers and Fresh Air producers
CLIR Grant2015-2016
Make recordings open & available for
scholarship & research, and produce a
finding aid
Team
Communication
Enhanced metadata
Conversations
● Fresh Air production staff needs
● User perspective
● Industry best practices for audio
● Shareable metadata
Planning
Enhanced metadata
PBCore 2.0
● Model show structure:
episode & segment
● Support broadcast & rebroadcast
dates
● Support future needs (extension)
Planning
Enhanced metadata
Linked data support
● @ref and @source attributes
● URIs for names & subjects
● Related works (pbcoreRelation)
Planning
Enhanced metadata
APIs for controlled vocabularies
● VIAF for names
● FAST for subjects
Planning
Enhanced metadata
Local controlled vocabularies
● Topics
● Genres
● Contributor roles
Planning
Use CasesI want to see all interviews with novelists.
Search
>>> novelists
>>> Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie>>> Toni Morrison>>> Stephen King
Use CasesI want to see all interviews on the environment.
Search
>>> environment
>>> Paul Greenberg, Author of Four Fish
>>> David Rosner & Gerald MarkowitzLead wars
Use Cases
I want to see all reviews, interviews related to the television program Boardwalk Empire.
Search
>>> Boardwalk Empire
>>> Review by David Bianculli
>>> Interview with Vince Giordano, whose music is featured on the show
>>> Interview with the series creator, Terence Winter
Metadata entry interfacePre-populated fields
Metadata entry interfaceNames of Common Contributors have been bolded
Metadata entry interfaceFAST API for subject terms
Metadata entry interfaceAuto complete functionality for subject & Contributors
Metadata entry interface
References
Data CleaningConversion of legacy data (1985-2009) to conform to new metadata model
>> Adding Segments
>> Adding the Intellectual Property section
Rights>> Rights statement is a part of the metadata.
>> We do have some interviews for which we have no rights.
Workflow
Name Authority Work
NACO training for Drexel
Name Authority Work
Personal Names
Name Authority Work
Organizations and Works
WorldCat Harvesting
● Metadata mapped from PBCore
to Dublin Core
● Scheduled OAI-PMH harvest via
the WorldCat Digital Collection
Gateway
● WorldCat will display metadata
and link to .mp3 audio filefor public discovery
METADATAThe Foundation
New Possibilities
New Connections
New Audiences
New Links
Closing Themes
● Collaboration
● Communication
● User-friendly metadata entry
(harnessing APIs)
● Anticipating future needs (linked
data & extensibility)
● Sustainability+ lessons learned
Thank you!Anu Paul [email protected]
Holly Tomren [email protected]
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