Slides to accompany Keith Gilbertson and Linda Newman's pitch of their entry to the DevCSI OR2012 Developer Challenge. Further information about their entry can be found at http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/or2012-developer-challenge-mobile-audio-transcription-and-submission-mats

1. OR2012
Developer’s
Challenge
MATS
–
Mobile
Audio*
Transcrip@on
and
Submission
*and
video

2. MATS
–
Mobile
Audio
Transcrip@on
and
Submission
• Mobile
phone
app
to
record
audio
(or
video)
oral
histories,
automa@cally
obtain
transcrip@ons,
and
submit
the
histories
and
transcrip@ons
to
a
repository

3. Simple
One-­‐Time
Setup

4. Record,
Transcribe,
Submit

5. Select
file
for
transcrip@on

6. Request
Transcrip@on
MAVIS
=
MicrosoN
Audio
Visual
Indexing
System
(computerized)
Mechanical
Turk
(humanized)

7. Submission
of
media
and
transcripts

8. Feasability
=
Easability
• All
of
the
pieces
already
exist,
we
just
need
to
glue
them
together
• Stealing
code
from
another
group’s
SWORD
submission
app
from
OR2011
challenge!
(SWORD
Share)
• Web
services
for
MicrosoN
MAVIS
(via
GreenBuZon)
• Amazon
Mechanical
Turk

9. Use
Study
–
Digital
Archive
of
Literacy
Narra@ves
DALN
seeks
literacy
narra@ves
–
personal
recorded
stories
of
how
one
learned
to
read,
write
and
compose,
from
everyday
ci@zens.
Instruc@ons
for
uploading
mp3’s
today
are
mul@-­‐stepped.
Submission
from
a
smart
phone
–
with
transcripts
–
would
be
a
boon.

10. Use
Study
–
Elliston
Poetry
Curator
• The
Elliston
poetry
curator
at
University
of
Cincinna@
has
been
hos@ng
noted
poets
and
making
analog
recordings
for
decades
–
s@ll
doing
so
–
would
be
great
for
him
to
have
a
digital
method
that
would
not
be
mul@-­‐
stepped
and
would
not
require
mul@ple
devices,
using
an
android
tablet
or
iPad,
and
he
would
be
ecsta@c
to
have
transcrip@ons.

11. Use
Study
–
tablets
in
the
field
• Researchers
are
using
mobile
devices
in
the
field.
The
ability
to
upload
an
audio
or
video
file
at
the
point
of
crea@on-­‐with
transcript-­‐
would
greatly
enhance
the
rate
of
contribu@on.